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 […]
A Recent History of Hung Parliaments and Coalition Governments
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 […]
The Troubled History of the Berlin Wall
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 […]
Centenary of the Outbreak of The First World War
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 […]
Updated Jisc MediaHub Roadmap
Current Developments MediaHub Mobile App (iOS – for iPhone/iPad) Filtering of Collections by ‘attribute’ e.g. exploring only Jisc-licensed content or only content that requires no login. Suggested formats for citing video, audio and images. Better resilience. Higher quality videos. Better […]
What have you been doing with Jisc MediaHub?
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 […]
London Broadcasting Company/ Independent Radio News Audio Archive
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 […]
The 1984 Miners’ Strike
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 […]
Interface upgrade: Jan 2014 release
EDINA is pleased to announce a new release of Jisc MediaHub, which includes: A facility to upload images to the service, either via Flickr or from a user’s PC – http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/my/uploads Pan/zoom functionality for viewing large images – http://jiscmediahub.ac.uk/record/display/020-00000186 An […]
Nelson Mandela 1918 – 2013
The death of Nelson Mandela was announced last night and has triggered a wave of warm reflections on and re-examinations of his life and work. The media has been fascinated by Mandela since the 1960s and we wanted to take […]