Fifty years ago, in March 1965, the events at Selma, Alabama marked a turning point in the progress of the African American Civil Rights Movement. In this blogpost we will take a look at why the Selma Marches proved to […]
Dec 142015
Catherine Fleming
May 052015
The imminent 2015 UK General Election is proving to be one of the most uncertain we have known; however in the recent past it was not uncommon to encounter hung parliaments where no single party had managed to gain the majority of seats. We […]
Nov 262014
Twenty five years ago one of the most extraordinary barriers ever constructed was torn down by the people it was designed to oppress. The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to prevent East Germans reaching West Berlin, but to […]
Sep 012014
We are pleased to announce that enhanced video is now available for many of the subscription collections in Jisc MediaHub. These include over 23,000 videos from AP Archive, Getty (moving images), IET.tv, ITV News and a subset of Wellcome Library […]
Aug 042014
It seems extraordinary to us now that the assassination of an unpopular Archduke in a relatively obscure country could have started the most significant war the world had ever known. A hundred years ago, on the 28th June 1914, a […]
Jun 032014
We would love to know how you have been using resources from Jisc MediaHub for your learning, teaching or research activities. Have you selected any favourite Jisc MediaHub film clips, images or sound files to incorporate into your work? If […]
Apr 252014
We are delighted to announce Jisc MediaHub now includes the most important digitised commercial radio archive in the UK; the LBC/IRN Archive. Bournemouth University’s Media School was funded by Jisc to carry out the digitisation work. You can browse this new […]
Apr 172014
Thirty years have now gone by since the beginning of the 1984 Miners’ Strike. It remains the bitterest industrial dispute in living memory and marked a turning point in the power relationship between the trade unions and the government; the […]
Nov 222013
Fifty years ago the world was rocked on its axis by the news that the President of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, had been assassinated during a visit to Dallas. That the most powerful leader in the […]
Sep 182013
Manufacturing Pasts If you have an interest in the social history of 20th Century industrial Britain you will want to know about a new set of resources recently released by the University of Leicester. Manufacturing Pasts is a collection of digitised […]