Heritage Open Days 11-20 September
Check out the Heritage Open Days locally this September! They provide excellent opportunities to explore heritage of all kinds in the region – this year the open days take place over a period of 10 days...
Tagged: Performing Arts
Animated magazine – Summer 2020
Animated is a community dance magazine published by People Dancing.It give you insight into a range of views and voices about practice in participatory dance. The Library has a current subscription to the print version of this...
Box of Broadcast – 2 minute video tutorials
Box of Broadcasts is an amazing resource! It is often referred to as ‘BoB’ and is an on-demand television and radio service that the University Library subscribes to – if you haven’t looked at...
Podcast pleasure
Have you been journeying into the world of podcasts during the Covid-19 restrictions of where you can go and what you can access? Here are a collection for you to explore: BBC Culture in...
Museum of Boundless Creativity – needs your help
September sees the first digital collection from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)- the Museum of Boundless Creativity which will be open 24/7. This new initiative is part of the Boundless Creativity campaign...
New ebooks to support the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries
Ebooks are now more important than ever for giving us access to our reading from home. See which ebooks your librarians Suzie and Leah have bought in April, May and June this year to...
Staging the archive – Greek and Roman drama podcasts and ebooks
The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) is an international centre researching into performances of Greek and Roman drama. You can explore their research publications via their web site. Recently they...
Shakespeare – Othello podcast and ebooks
Are you researching or studying Shakespeare? Is Othello one of your plays? Bloomsbury Academic publishing has released their latest podcast which features Ayanna Thompson. She has written several books on Shakespeare and is a...
Dawsonera ebooks: Export notes you want to keep ASAP
You may have read recently that one of the major ebook suppliers to libraries - Dawsonera - went into administration and has ceased supplying ebooks. Unfortunately we are not sure how much longer we...
Academic writing – phrases you can use in your dissertations
If you’re working on your dissertation and you’re looking for some academic phrases that you can use when writing up your research you will find the University of Manchester Academic Phrasebank very useful. About...
Extended access to additional art, design and performing arts resources
One of the ways we are providing additional library support at the moment is facilitating access to online resources that publishers are making temporarily available. The resources have been made freely available by publishers,...
Pride 2020 – LGBT+ Reads
The Library have added a lot of ebooks to our collections over the last year and in recognition of Pride Month 2020 we are highlighting the latest LGBT+ ebook titles: Toft, A., and Franklin,...
Launch of our online art and design degree show
This is a first for the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries – an online degree show with an online launch! The show was launched on 11th June through an online Microsoft Teams gathering...
Behind the scenes at the British Library
Have you ever used our inter-library loan service, received a digitised article direct to your inbox, or received a book on loan from the British Library, and wondered what actually happens at the British...
Sounds of the sea
Many of us are inspired by the sights and sounds of nature. Many students studying our creative courses such as fine art and music find inspiration from nature for their creative outputs. The British...