BFI InView - Moving Images in the Public Sphere

This is a new web-based learning resource that has been funded by JISC. It provides a selection of material drawn from the rich film and television collections of the BFI National Archive, working with partner organisations. Users are able to access over 600 hours of full-length film and video material, search a database that provides descriptions and key technical information about each title, plus related documents, and essays by curators and experts putting the material in context. The project will continue to add new material and enhance the design and functionality of the website over the coming few months and you should check this site regularly to see what’s new. InView has been led by the BFI in collaboration with the following partners, who have given permission for material to be distributed to users:

The National Archives
Parliamentary Broadcasting Unit
BBC
Open Media

For more information and access to the collections, go to: https://www.bfi.org.uk/inview/

British Periodicals Online: e-journal collection

British Periodicals Online is now available. British Periodicals traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. On completion this unique digital archive will consist of more than 460 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages and forming an unrivalled record of more than two centuries of British history and culture.

Among the periodicals in included in British Periodicals are titles founded, edited or regularly contributed to by a host of important figures - Walter Bagehot, Aubrey Beardsley, Annie Besant, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Frances Power Cobbe, William Cobbett, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Ford Madox Ford, Oliver Goldsmith, Leigh Hunt, Jerome K. Jerome, Samuel Johnson, Sir Roger L'Estrange, G. H. Lewes, Harriet Martineau, Edward Moore, John Morley, John Henry Newman, Margaret Oliphant, W. M. Rossetti, Sir Richard Steele and Tobias Smollett to name but a few. In addition to providing access to the original periodical versions of landmark texts like De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, Cobbett's Rural Rides, Bagehot's The English Constitution, Gaskell's North and South and Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, the collection offers new ways of exploring the inaccessible, neglected or forgotten writings that formed their original contexts. A wide array of different types of periodical are represented, from magisterial quarterlies and scholarly and professional organs through to coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines.

Access to this resource is via the eLibrary Gateway.

20th Century British History Essay Prize

Oxford Journals (of OUP) are inviting entries to their Twentieth Century British History’s annual Essay Prize. The aim of the TCBH Essay Prize is to encourage a high standard of scholarship amongst postgraduate research students. The competition is open to anyone currently registered for a higher research degree, or who completed one no earlier than October 2008.

The author of the winning essay will receive:

• Publication of the winning essay in Twentieth Century British History
• A cash prize of £300
• £200 worth of OUP books
• One year’s free subscription to Twentieth Century British History

Please feel free to pass this message on to your colleagues and students.

The closing date for submissions is 15 October 2009. Full details and an Essay Prize entry form can be located at: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3456/6