Podcast project run from City University New York with offerings on a variety of interesting & pertinent topics

Diverse range of broadcasts, including many historic programmes & series

See especially their guide to film, TV & radio collections in the UK, and Box of Broadcasts (BoB) media recording and archive service, to which the Library subscribes (key TV & radio channels have an archive back to about 2007). TRILT - the database behind BoB - has details of recordings from 1995, and it's possible to request copies of these.

Rapidly growing platform for open access primary source material from institutions in the US and beyond, includes a strong visual component

Curated audio & video resources for educational purposes, many free.

Google Arts & Culture project with photos, videos, exhibits & some tracks, all relating to the development of electronic music

Website outcome of a symposium in 2021, with some helpful links to resources

Before the invention of the camera, watercolours documented the world over centuries, and Watercolour World exists to bring them back into view via a free online database of documentary watercolours painted before 1900. Explore them through a world map, or search for topics

Based at Newcastle University, but the film database can be browsed to get an idea of what is potentially available

Largely free digital collections covering art, music, fashion, photography from libraries, museums, galleries & archives across Europe.

EU project to make available themed selections from national television broadcasters around Europe.

Collection of documentary films portraying British life in the 1940s.

Documentary films from the 20th century onwards capturing social history & change in the UK from the BFI's National Archive. Also its Colonial Film Catalogue (over 150 films are free to view).

Extraordinary collection of over 1 million photographs focusing on all aspects of the social & cultural life of London

Large collection of digitised photographs from across London boroughs

Photos from established & upcoming documentary photographers, of great interest for UK social history & subculture 1960s- onwards. Includes The People's Archive, a crowdsourced collection of images of everyday life in Britain 1930s- onwards

Includes some digitised collections.

Four Corners Archive explores and documents the film and photographic heritage of Four Corners, Half Moon Photography Workshop, and Camerawork Magazine, from 1972–1987. Based in East London, their early work played a major role in the development of radical film and photographic practice

Extensive library of historical photographs of Britain from 1850-1970s. Viewing is free, reproduction requires registration and payment.

Digitisation of vast photographic archive of Derek Evans, and accompanying oral histories, to build a picture of the county from 1950s-1980s

Online project coordinated by Dr. Susan Cahill celebrating 50 years of Irish life in the UK. Includes oral history clips from members of the Irish community

Free access to the largest digitised collection of photos covering UK society & history (1878-), maintained by the owners of newspapers the Mirror and Express

Contains materials from Irish Film Institute IFI Player collections including The Bord Fáilte Film Collection, The Irish Adverts Project, The Father Delaney Collection, The Loopline Collection, and The Irish Independence Film Collection. It also has items from the London Irish Centre. It includes special sections on Irish, history culture

Digitised materials from the extensive archive held at University of Bristol, covering UK & Irish feminist music from the 1970s and 1980s

Free access to historic American sound recordings, currently covering the period 1901-1925.

Extracts visual content from Chronicling America - the massive Library of Congress digitised historic newspapers collection. Includes maps, cartoons, ads, photos, illustrations