Archives

Mass Observation - The New Project (1981+)

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URL: http://www.massobs.org.uk/mass_observation_project.html

British Library Sound Archive

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URL: http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history

MOD FOIA Disclosure logs

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URL: http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FreedomOfInformation/DisclosureLog/

Home Office FOIA Disclosure logs

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URL: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/freedom-of-information/ released-information/

JISC Media Hub (Login needed)

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You can access this archive through its website or through the Online Resources link in the University of Sussex Electronic Library. There are lots of interesting and unusual sources to explore, like the film 'Why Support the Miners' linked above.

Try and find

'From marx to marks and spencers'

Britain in the 1980s through the eyes of an east german documentary crew

or the 1988 film The Scar, on the impact of pit closures.

URL: http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/

TVTimes Online (Login needed)

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If this link doesn't work you can access the TV Times archive via the University of Sussex Electronic Library under Online Resources

URL: http://tvtip.bufvc.ac.uk/

BFIinview (Login needed)

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Find University of Sussex in institution list and use sussex login and pastword

URL: http://www.bfi.org.uk/inview/

BBC archive

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Searchable by theme

URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/

Private Eye cover library

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URL: http://www.private-eye.co.uk/covers.php

Cartoons Archive at Canterbury

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Thanks James

URL: http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/

British political speeches

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URL: http://www.britishpoliticalspeech.org/index.htm

Diplomatic oral history project

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URL: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/collections/BDOHP/

British History online

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URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/

London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News Audio Archive

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URL: http://radio.bufvc.ac.uk/lbc/

The Stormont Papers

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URL: http://stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk/stormontpapers/index.html

Online Northern Women's History archive

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URL: http://www.historytoherstory.org.uk/

Vision of Britain Online

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URL: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/

Doomsday Reloaded

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URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday

Index of British History online resources

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URL: http://primary-sources.eui.eu/country/united-kingdom

The Thatcher archives - speeches and documents

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URL: http://www.margaretthatcher.org/archive/