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he Survey of English Dialects (SED) was a groundbreaking nationwide survey of the vernacular speech of England, undertaken by researchers based at the University of Leeds under the direction of Harold Orton. From 1950 to 1961 a team of fieldworkers collected data in a network of 313 localities across England, initially in the form of transcribed responses to a questionnaire containing over 1300 items. The informants were mostly farm labourers, predominantly male and generally over 65 years old as the aim of the survey was to capture the most conservative forms of folk-speech.

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Survey of English Dialects - Accents and dialects | British Library - Sounds

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The BBC Voices project provided a snapshot of the linguistic landscape of the UK at the start of the 21st century by encouraging members of the public to contribute their words and reflect on the language they use and encounter in their daily lives.

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1. Shadow reading
Students try to speak at exactly the same speed and rhythm as the CD, then try one more time with the sound turned down in the middle of the recording to see if they are still in time when the sound is turned back up.

2. Syllables snap
Students take turns turning over cards with words written on them from their packs. If the two words have the same number of syllables, the first person to say "Snap" and/ or slap their hands down on the cards wins all the cards that have been turned over so far. The person with most cards at the end of the game is the winner. This also works with vowel sounds in one syllable words and word stress.

3. Word stress pellmanism
Pellmanism (= pairs/ memory game) can be played with the same cards as Snap, but is a slower game. All the cards are spread face down on the table and students take turns trying to find matching pairs of cards by which syllable is stressed. This is easier if all of the words have the same number of syllables. This game can also be played with students matching by vowel sounds or number of syllables.

4. The yes?! game
Students try to give as many different feelings and meanings to one word or sentence as they can by varying the stress and intonation. The other students guess what feeling they were trying to convey.

5. Yes. Yes! YES!
Similar to The Yes?! Game, students compete to say a word or sentence in the most extreme way they can, e.g. they take turns being as angry as possible and the angriest person wins.

6. Sounds brainstorming board race
Teams of students try to write as many words with the sound they have been given on the board as quickly as possible. Each team member can only write one word before they pass the pen onto someone else, but they can prompt each other. This also works for number of syllables and word stress.

7. Minimal pairs stations
Students show which of two words they think they have heard by racing to touch one of the things that the teacher or class decided will be used to represent that thing, e.g. the table for /l/ or the chair for /r/. More active classes can run and touch things like the door and the window, while shyer classes can just raise their right and left hands.

8. Sounds same or different
In this variation on Minimal Pairs Stations, rather than indicating which sound they hear, students indicate if they think two words you say have the same or different pronunciation. This is good for homophones as well as minimal pairs. The easiest way to explain the task is to give students pieces of paper with "Same" and "Different" written on for them to hold up or race to slap.

9. Sounds same or different pairwork
You can add lots more speaking practice, both controlled pron practice and free conversation, to Sounds Same or Different by giving students worksheets with the words you want them to compare highlighted on Student A and Student B sheets. First they read out just the word to decide if the pron is the same or not, then they read out their different sentences to see if the context gives them any more clues. When they have finished, they can spell the words out to each other and then look at each other's sheets.

10. Tell me when I'm odd
In this variation of Sounds Same or Different, students listen to a whole string of words with the same sound (e.g. the same vowel sound) and race to indicate the first word they hear that is different.

11. Silently mouthing
Students try to identify the word or sentence that the teacher or a student is mouthing silently. This is good for awareness of mouth position for English sounds.

12. Sounds puzzle
You can get the logical parts of their brain working during pronunciation practice by hiding the sounds that make up a word that is the answer to the puzzle. Students find the sounds in common in each pair of words, put all the sounds together (mixed up or in order) and write the word they make.

13. Pronunciation maze
This game also allows them to use a little bit of logical problem solving to help with a pronunciation task. In a grid, write a string of words with a common sound, e.g. the same vowel sound, between the top left corner and the bottom right corner. In all the other squares, write in words that people might think have the same sound but don't. Students then have to get from the starting point to the end by the right route. After they have finished, drill the words on the right route, and then all the surrounding ones with different sounds.

14. Common pron pictures
Students draw lines between the pairs of words that share the same sound on their sheet, and see what kind of picture is made by those lines. This can take a lot of preparation, but is easier if you just have the thing they draw as a letter of the alphabet, usually an upper case one as there are more straight lines.

15. No sounds listening comprehension
Students try to identify which sentence in a dialogue the teacher or a student has chosen without them using any English sounds. This can be done by waving your arms around to show sentence stress or intonation, or beating out the rhythm on the sentence on the table or your palm.

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If you're reading this, I imagine you want to speak better English and communicate in a more confident and competent way.

When we communicate effectively we are able to express our ideas and opinions, share experiences, and build relationships with others. When we struggle to express ourselves, we feel unvalued and insecure. As human beings, we want to participate in group discussions and have an impact on the society around us.

In the modern world, we communicate across borders. English is the closest thing we have to an international language.
By speaking better English, people all over the world can hear our voice. But, to speak better English, you need a teacher, don't you? You need to take English classes, right?
Well, English teachers and English classes definitely help. But, studying English for a few hours a week may not improve your spoken English very much.
What you need is to become a self-directed learner, somebody who takes responsibility for their own learning and creates their own learning programme to develop their English.
Now, it's certainly true that speaking is a social activity and is best done with other people. However, you could say the same about many activities. Leo Messi became a wonderful football player because he spent hours every day for many years practising by himself.
You can do the same with your English. Here are 33 ways to speak better English, without going to classes.
4. Watch short video clips and pause and repeat what you hear. YouTube is an amazing resource for language learners and you probably already have your favourite clips. My advice is to watch short clips and really study them. With longer videos, you may find your attention wanders. The key to improving by watching videos is to really listen carefully and use the pause button to focus on sounds and words. Many YouTube videos now have captions.

7. Learn about weak and strong forms of common words. When you know about the 'schwa' sound, you will listen to native speakers in a different way. English is a stress-timed language which means that we use a combination of strong and weak forms of some words. For example, which words do we stress in the following sentence?
I want to go for a drink tonight.
How do native speakers pronounce to / for / a in the sentence? We use the schwa sound so it sounds like:
I wanna go ferra drink tenigh.
Learn how and when to use weak form s and your speaking will improve overnight. You will also learn to focus on stressed words when listening to fast, native-speaker English and you will finally be able to understand us!

8. Learn about word stress. When words have more than one syllable, we stress one or more of them. For example, the word intelligent has four syllables but which syllable do we stress? Click here to find out. Remember that the small vertical mark above the word identifies the stressed syllable: /ɪnˈtel.ɪ.dʒənt/

9. Learn about sentence stress. Sentence stress refers to the word or words we stress in a phrase of a sentence. When we stress a word, we help the listener understand what is important. If we stress the wrong word or don't stress the key word, the listener may get confused or not realise what is important in the sentence. A few years ago, I enrolled in a gym. I was asked to attend an introductory class at ' five to six'. The Hungarian receptionist stressed the word ' six' so I arrived at 5.55. She looked at me and told me that I was late and the class had nearly finished. She should have stressed ' five' and ' six' so would have understood that the class lasted for one hour and began at 5pm! For more on sentence stress, read here .

10. Identify fixed and semi-fixed phrases and practise them. Fixed phrases usually contain between 3 and 7 words and include items like:
to be honest on the other hand
A conversation is made of grammatical structures, vocabulary and fixed or semi-fixed phrases. In fact, t o tell the truth , on the whole, most of the time, my friends and I , communicate with each other in a series of fixed and semi-fixed expressions.

Learn the communicative function of these phrases and practise how to pronounce them (remember weak forms, which words are stressed) and use them in your everyday conversation. Click here for a list of 1000 common phrases .
Yellow doesn't get on well with hair. Maybe yellow is jealous of blond because blond and hair are frequently seen out together having a great time. Yellow doesn't understand why hair prefers blond because yellow and blond are so similar.
Listen carefully for common combinations of words. Short and small have similar meanings but people have short hair not small hair. High and tall are often not so different but people have high hopes but not tall hopes. Foxes are sly not devious. Hours can be happy but are never cheerful. Idiots are stupid but rarely silly.

13. Learn short automatic responses. Many of our responses are automatic (Right, OK, no problem, alright, fine thanks, just a minute, you're welcome, fine by me, let's do it!, yup, no way! you're joking, right?, Do I have to? etc.) Collect these short automatic responses and start using them.

14. Practise telling stories and using narrative tenses. Humans are designed to tell stories. We use the past simple, past continuous and past perfect for telling stories but when the listener is hooked (very interested), they feel like they are actually experiencing the story right now. So, we often use present tenses to make our stories more dramatic!

16. Learn about chunking. Chunking means joining words together to make meaningful units. You don't need to analyse every word to use a phrase. Look at the phrase: Nice to meet you. It's a short phrase (4 words) which can be remembered as a single item. It is also an example of ellipsis (leaving words out) because the words 'It' and 'is' are missing at the beginning of the phrase. However, we don't need to include them. Learn more here.

17. Learn about typical pronunciation problems in your first language. Japanese learners find it difficult to identify and produce ' r' and ' l' sounds; Spanish don't distinguish between ' b' and ' v'; Germans often use a ' v' sound when they should use a ' w '. Find out about the problems people who speak your first language have when speaking English and you will know what you need to focus on.

20. Use a mirror and / or a sheet of paper for identifying aspirated and non-aspirated sounds. Aspirated sounds are those with a short burst of here, such as ' p' in ' pen, and unaspirated sounds have no or little air, such as the ' b' in ' Ben'. Watch this video to learn more.
What a terrible tongue twister. What a terrible tongue twister. What a terrible tongue twister.
22. Practise spelling names, numbers and dates aloud. This may seem very basic to some of you but if you don't practise, you forget how to say them.Have a and at place names here.

23. Learn about common intonation patterns. Intonation (when the pitch of the voice goes up and down) is complex in English but it is very important as it expresses the feeling or emotion of the speaker. Here is an amusing introduction to intonation.

26. Learn why English is a stress-timed language. The rhythm of the language is based on stressed syllables so we shorten the unstressed syllables to fit the rhythm. Syllable-timed languages (such as Spanish) take the same time to pronounce each syllable. Here's an which might explain why you speak English like a robot or watch this funny clip here.

31. Learn exclamation words and fillers. Watch or study this list of 100 common exclamations here.
Now, here's your CALL TO ACTION. In the next 33 days, spend 15 minutes every day on one of the tips. I'm sure you'll notice a huge improvement.
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How much should I quote?

The focus of your essay should be on your understanding of the topic. If you include too much quotation in your essay, you will crowd out your own ideas. Consider quoting a passage from one of your sources if any of the following conditions holds:

1. The language of the passage is particularly elegant or powerful or memorable.

2. You wish to confirm the credibility of your argument by enlisting the support of an authority on your topic.

3. The passage is worthy of further analysis.

4. You wish to argue with someone else's position in considerable detail.

Condition 3 is especially useful in essays for literature courses.

If an argument or a factual account from one of your sources is particularly relevant to your paper but does not deserve to be quoted verbatim, consider

paraphrasing the passage if you wish to convey the points in the passage at roughly the same level of detail as in the original

summarizing the relevant passage if you wish to sketch only the most essential points in the passage

Note that most scientific writing relies on summary rather than quotation. The same is true of writing in those social sciences-such as experimental psychology-that rely on controlled studies and emphasize quantifiable results. (Almost all of the examples in this handout follow the MLA system of citation, which is widely used in the humanities and in those social sciences with a less quantitative approach.)

Visit our handout on paraphrase and summary.

Why is it important to identify my sources?

Quotations come from somewhere, and your reader will want to know where. Don't just parachute quotations into your essay without providing at least some indication of who your source is. Letting your reader know exactly which authorities you rely on is an advantage: it shows that you have done your research and that you are well acquainted with the literature on your topic.

In the following passage, the parenthetical reference to the author does not adequately identify the source:

The ancient Greeks never saw a need to justify wars that were waged outside the walls of the city state. "Hence we must turn to Roman antiquity to find the first justification of war, together with the first notion that there are just and unjust wars" (Arendt 12). Yet the Roman conception of a just war differs sharply from more modern conceptions.

When you are making decisions about how to integrate quotations into your essay, you might imagine that you are reading the essay out loud to an audience. You would not read the parenthetical note. Without some sort of introduction, your audience would not even know that the statement about Roman antiquity was a quotation, let alone where the quotation came from.

How do I introduce a short quotation?

The following offers just one way of introducing the above quotation:

The ancient Greeks never saw a need to justify wars that were waged outside the walls of the city state. As Hannah Arendt points out in On Revolution, "we must turn to Roman antiquity to find the first justification of war, together with the first notion that there are just and unjust wars" (12). Yet the Roman conception of a just war differs sharply from more modern conceptions.

Since the quotation is relatively short, the brief introduction works.

You could, however, strengthen your analysis by demonstrating the significance of the passage within your own argument. Introducing your quotation with a full sentence would help you assert greater control over the material:

The ancient Greeks never saw a need to justify wars that were waged outside the walls of the city state. In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt points to the role the Romans played in laying the foundation for later thinking about the ethics of waging war: "we must turn to Roman antiquity to find the first justification of war, together with the first notion that there are just and unjust wars" (12). Yet the Roman conception of a just war differs sharply from more modern conceptions.

In these two examples, observe the forms of punctuation used to introduce the quotations. When you introduce a quotation with a full sentence, you should always place a colon at the end of the introductory sentence. When you introduce a quotation with an incomplete sentence, you usually place a comma after the introductory phrase. However, it has become grammatically acceptable to use a colon rather than a comma:

Arendt writes: "we must turn to Roman antiquity to find the first justification of war . . ."

If you are blending the quotation into your own sentence using the conjuction that, do not use any punctuation at all:

Arendt writes that "we must turn to Roman antiquity to find the first justification of war . . ."

If you are not sure whether to punctuate your introduction to a quotation, mentally remove the quotation marks, and ask yourself whether any punctuation is still required.

Finally, note that you can deviate from the common pattern of introduction followed by quotation. Weaving the phrases of others into your own prose offers a stylistically compelling way of maintaining control over your source material. Moreover, the technique of weaving can help you to produce a tighter argument. The following condenses twelve lines from Arendt's essay to fewer than two:

What Arendt refers to as the "well-known realities of power politics" began to lose their moral legitimacy when the First World War unleashed "the horribly destructive" forces of warfare "under conditions of modern technology" (13).

What verbs and phrases can I use to introduce my quotations?

Familiarize yourself with the various verbs commonly used to introduce quotations. Here is a partial list:

Each verb has its own nuance. Make sure that the nuance matches your specific aims in introducing the quotation.

There are other ways to begin quotations. Here are three common phrasings:

In the words of X, . . .

According to X, . . .

Vary the way you introduce quotations to avoid sounding monotonous. But never sacrifice precision of phrasing for the sake of variety.

Visit the U of T Writing Website's page on verbs for referring to sources.

How do I introduce a long quotation?

If your quotation is lengthy, you should almost always introduce it with a full sentence that helps capture how it fits into your argument. If your quotation is longer than four lines, do not place it in quotation marks. Instead, set it off as a block quotation:

Although Dickens never shied away from the political controversies of his time, he never, in Orwell's view, identified himself with any political program:

The truth is that Dickens' criticism of society is almost exclusively moral. Hence his lack of any constructive suggestion anywhere in his work. He attacks the law, parliamentary government, the educational system and so forth, without ever clearly suggesting what he would put in their places. Of course it is not necessarily the business of a novelist, or a satirist, to make constructive suggestions, but the point is that Dickens' attitude is at bottom not even destructive. . . . For in reality his target is not so much society as human nature. (416)

The full-sentence introduction to a block quotation helps demonstrate your grasp of the source material, and it adds analytical depth to your essay. But the introduction alone is not enough. Long quotations almost invariably need to be followed by extended analysis. Never allow the quotation to do your work for you. Usually you will want to keep the quotation and your analysis together in the same paragraph. Hence it is a good idea to avoid ending a paragraph with a quotation. But if your analysis is lengthy, you may want to break it into several paragraphs, beginning afresh after the quotation.

Once in a while you can reverse the pattern of quotation followed by analysis. A felicitously worded or an authoritative quotation can, on occasion, nicely clinch an argument.

There is some flexibility in the rule that block quotations are for passages of four lines or more: a shorter passage can be represented as a block quotation if it is important enough to stand on its own. For example, when you are quoting two or more lines of poetry, you will probably want to display the verse as it appears on the page:

In the opening heroic couplet of The Rape of the Lock, Pope establishes the unheroic nature of the poem's subject matter:

What dire offense from amorous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things. (1-2)

If you choose to integrate verse into your own sentence, then use a slash surrounded by spaces to indicate line breaks:

In Eliot's The Waste Land, the symbols of a mythic past lie buried in "A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, / And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief" (22-23).

How do I let my reader know I've altered my sources?

If you need to alter your quotations in any way, be sure to indicate just how you have done so. If you remove text, then replace the missing text with an ellipsis -three periods surrounded by spaces:

In The Mirror and the Lamp, Abrams comments that the "diversity of aesthetic theories . . . makes the task of the historian a very difficult one" (5).

If the omitted text occurs between sentences, then put a space after the period at the end of sentence, and follow that by an ellipsis. In all, there will be four periods. (See Orwell on Dickens, above.)

Many people overuse ellipses at the beginning and end of quotations. Use an ellipsis in either place only when your reader might otherwise mistake an incomplete sentence for a complete one:

Abraham Lincoln begins "The Gettysburg Address" with a reminder of the act upon which the United States was founded: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation . . ." (1).

Do not use an ellipsis if you are merely borrowing a phrase from the original:

In "The Gettysburg Address" Abraham Lincoln reminds his listeners of the principles that had inspired the creation of "a new nation" (1).

If you need to alter or replace text from the original, enclose the added text within square brackets. You may, for example, need to alter text to ensure that pronouns agree with their antecedents. Do not write,

Gertrude asks her son Hamlet to "cast your nighted colour off" (1.2.68).

Square brackets allow you to absorb Gertrude's words into your own statement:

Gertrude asks her son Hamlet to "cast [his] nighted colour off" (1.2.68).

Alternatively, you can include Gertrude's original phrasing in its entirety as long as the introduction to the quotation is not fully integrated with the quotation. The introduction can be an independent clause:

Gertrude implores her son Hamlet to stop mourning the death of his father: "cast your nighted colour off" (I.ii.68).

Or it can be an incomplete sentence:

Gertrude implores her son Hamlet, "cast your nighted colour off" (1.2.68).

How is punctuation affected by quotation?

You must preserve the punctuation of a quoted passage, or else you must enclose in square brackets any punctuation marks that are your own.

There is, however, one important exception to this rule. You are free to alter the punctuation just before a closing quotation mark. You may need to do so to ensure that your sentences are fully grammatical. Do not worry about how the original sentence needs to be punctuated before that quotation mark; think about how your sentence needs to be punctuated. Note, for example, that if you are using the MLA system of referencing, a sentence always ends after the parenthetical reference. Do not also include a period before closing the quotation mark, even if there is a period there in the original. For example, do not write,

According to Schama, Louis XVI remained calm during his trial: "The Terror had no power to frighten an old man of seventy-two." (822).

The period before the closing quotation mark must go:

According to Schama, Louis XVI remained calm during his trial: "The Terror had no power to frighten an old man of seventy-two" (822).

However, if you are using footnotes, the period remains inside the quotation mark, while the footnote number goes outside:

According to Schama, Louis XVI remained calm during his trial: "The Terror had no power to frighten an old man of seventy-two." ¹

In Canada and the United States, commas and periods never go outside a quotation mark. They are always absorbed as part of the quotation, whether they belong to you or to the author you are quoting:

"I am a man / more sinned against than sinning," Lear pronounces in Act 3, Scene 2 (59-60).

However, stronger forms of punctuation such as question marks and exclamation marks go inside the quotation if they belong to the author, and outside if they do not:

Bewildered, Lear asks the fool, "Who is it that can tell me who I am?" (1.4.227).

Why is Lear so rash as to let his "two daughters' dowers digest the third" (1.1.127)?

Finally, use single quotation marks for all quotations within quotations:

When Elizabeth reveals that her younger sister has eloped, Darcy drops his customary reserve: "'I am grieved, indeed,' cried Darcy, 'grieved-shocked'" (Austen 295).

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The basic unit of English grammar is the clause:

[An unlucky student almost lost a 17th century violin worth almost £200,000]

[when he left it in the waiting room of a London station.]

[William Brown inherited the 1698 Stradivarius violin from his mother]

[and had just had it valued by a London dealer at £180,000.]

Clauses are made up of phrases:

[An unlucky student] + [almost lost] + [a 17th century violin worth almost £200,000]

[when] + [he] + [left] + [it] + [in the waiting room of a London station.]

[William Brown] + [inherited] + [the 1698 Stradivarius violin] + [from his mother]

[and] [had just had it valued] + [by a London dealer] + [at £180,000.]

We can join two or more clauses together to make sentences.

An unlucky student almost lost a 17th century violin worth almost £200,000 when he left it in the waiting room of a London station.

William Brown inherited the 1698 Stradivarius violin from his mother and had just had it valued by a London dealer at £180,000.

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The basic unit of English grammar is the clause : [An unlucky student almost lost a 17th century violin worth almost £200,000] [when he left it in the waiting room of a London station.] [William Brown inherited the 1698 Stradivarius violin from his mother] [and had just had it valued by a London dealer at £180,000.]

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Choosing something that you are passionately interested in to research is a great first step on the road to successful academic writing but it can be difficult to keep the momentum going. Deborah Lupton explains how old-fashioned whiteboards and online networking go hand-in-hand, and offers advice for when it is time to just 'make a start' or go for a bike ride.
As part of preparing for a workshop on academic publishing for early career academics, I jotted down some ideas and tips to share with the group which I thought I would post here. In the process of writing 12 books and over 110 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters over a career which has mostly been part-time because of juggling the demands of motherhood with academic work, I have developed some approaches that seem to work well for me.

These tips are in no particular order, apart from number 1, which I consider to be the most important of all.

Planning your research schedule

1. Choose something to research/write about that you are passionately interested in. I find that most of my research and writing tends to spring from wanting to find out more or understand more about a particular phenomenon that intrigues me. In explaining it to myself I end up explaining it to others, hopefully in a new and interesting way that is worthy of publication.

2. Be organised - planning time use is essential when there are many demands on your time.

3. Make sure that you set aside one or more periods of time each week when you devote yourself to research and don't let other demands impinge on this time.

4. So I can easily see what I need to do and by when, I use a white-board with a 'to do' list with tasks listed monthly and their deadlines. I rub off tasks as I complete them (usually with a great sense of accomplishment!). Very low tech, I know, but effective as a visual reminder.

5. Plan your research in chunks: this morning, today, this week, this month, next few months, this year, next three years. Have a clear idea for what you want to achieve in these time periods and try to stick to this as much as you can.

6. I don't tend to think more than a year ahead when it comes to research outcomes I want to achieve, but I find it helpful to write up at least a one-year research plan at the beginning of each year. Some people may also want to prepare a 3- or 5-year research plan.

7. Be strategic about every bit of research time available. Think about the best use of your time. Difficult cognitive tasks requiring intense thought often need a lengthy period of time, so plan to do these when this is available to you. Easy or less time-intensive tasks such as correcting proofs, editing or formatting a journal article or chapter for submission or reading some materials and taking notes can be fitted in smaller periods of time.

Making a start

1. Use whatever research time you have to do something, however small the task.

2. Make a start. Once you have an idea for a piece of writing, create a file for it on your computer and write down anything, however rough and however brief, even if it is just a provisional title and some notes about possible content. It can always be polished and developed later or even discarded if you decide eventually not to go ahead with the idea.

3. Organise your writing into different computer files: articles in progress, submitted articles, accepted articles, conference papers, blog posts, book proposals, grant applications etc.

4. Organise your PDF journal article collection under topics in files on your computer.

5. If you are feeling unenthusiastic or have hit a wall - leave that piece of writing for a while and work on another piece of writing.

6. If no external deadline has been set, set yourself deadlines and try to meet these as much as you can, so that you can then move on to the next piece of writing.

Getting the most out of your writing

1. Use your writing in as many different ways as you can - conference papers, articles/chapters, books, blog posts. Turn the small (unrefereed) pieces into bigger (refereed) pieces whenever you can and vice versa. What starts out as a blog post can be later developed into an article, for example. Conversely some of the main arguments of an article can be used in one or more blog posts.

2. Never let a conference/seminar paper stay a conference/seminar paper - turn it into an article/book chapter as soon as you can. If there is simply not enough substance for a piece that is the length of a journal article or book chapter, consider polishing and referencing the paper appropriately. Once it is at a standard where you consider it ready to be available to others, publish it on your university's e-repository as a working paper. That way, anyone will be able to access the paper digitally and reference it.

3. Decide on an appropriate journal as you are writing an article and tailor the argument/length to the journal's requirements before you finish it.

4. Once you think that you have finished a piece of writing and are ready to submit it, put it aside for a least a day and come back and read it again with fresh eyes. You will most probably notice something that could be improved upon. Once you have done this and are feeling happy with the piece, go ahead and submit. As another commentator has argued, you need to conquer your fear and send your writing off into the world: 'we owe it to the words we have written to send them away'.

5. Receiving feedback from academic referees on a writing piece or research proposal can sometimes be demoralising. Don't let negative comments get you down for long. Grit your teeth and revise and resubmit as soon as you can, however tedious it feels. See this as an opportunity to make your piece the very best it can be. If the article has been rejected, take a good hard look at whether the referees' comments are valid and if necessary, revise and then submit it to another journal. Remember that all successful academic writers have received negative feedback at times: that is simply part-and-parcel of academic writing and publishing.

6. Rather than simply deleting material when you are editing a piece of writing, make 'edits' computer files into which to 'paste' this material when you cut it (I make several edits files under topics). You never know when you may be able to use this material somewhere else.

7. Think about how one writing piece can lead to another as you are writing it.

8. Make sure that your abstract is well-written and will lead others to your work (see here for guidelines on writing an effective abstract).

9. Keep on top of the latest research published in the journals you use for your research. One easy way to do this is to sign up to email alerts with the publishers of the journals and you will be notified by them of the contents of each new issue.

Connect for inspiration

1. Inspiration for research can come from many places. Attending conferences and seminars and reading the latest academic literature in your field are all extremely important, but so are other strategies. As a sociologist, I have generated many ideas from listening to good quality radio programs, reading newspapers and my favourite online sites and blogs regularly and engaging in social media such as Twitter and Facebook with people interested in the topics I research (see more on social media at no. 25).

2. Connect, connect, connect. Publicise your research and make connections with other researchers as much as you can. Make contact with others working in areas related to your interests even if they are in different departments or in other universities. Join relevant research networks or start your own.

3. Strengthen your online presence. Think about using social and other digital media to promote your research, engage with the community and make academic connections. Set up a profile on Academia.edu at the barest minimum. Make sure your university webpage is kept up-to-date with your latest publications and research projects. Write blog posts (if you don't want to commit to your own blog, do guest posts for others' blogs or for online discussion forums), sign up to Twitter and relevant Facebook pages, put your PowerPoints on SlideShare, make Pinterest boards (see here for my introduction to social media for academics).

4. Use digital bookmarking sites such as Scoop.it, Pinterest, Delicious or Bundlr to save interesting material you have found on the web (see here for a discussion of using tools like these for academic work).

5. Use a computerised online reference manager such as Endnote, Zotero or Mendeley. Get in the habit of loading citations straight into this each time as soon as you come across them.

6. Think carefully about who you collaborate with on research before agreeing to do so. Good collaborators will add immensely to your own work: bad ones will make your life difficult and you won't be happy with the outputs you produce.

7. Seek out the advice or mentorship of more experienced academics whose research you respect.

8. Take regular walks/runs/bike rides. This will not only keep you physically fit but will also provide a mental space to think through an argument or come up with new ideas. Some of my best ideas have come when I have been in motion and my thoughts are unencumbered.

Note: This article gives the views of theauthor(s), and not the position of the Impact of Social Sciences blog, nor of the London School of Economics. This blog was originally published on Deborah's blog, 'This Sociological Life' , and is reprinted here with permission.
About the author: Deborah Lupton is a sociologist in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney. She is the author of 12 books and many research articles and chapters on topics including medicine and public health, the body, risk, parenting culture, childhood, the emotions, obesity politics, and digital cultures.

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Hello and welcome to Trend UK, your shortcut to popular culture from the British Council. In the next few minutes we're going to be asking whether you're after value for money when you're shopping for fashion; or fashion that's made with values. We're all after a bargain on the high street. But how often do you stop to consider how some stores seem to stock low-cost/high fashion items quicker and more cheaply than others? Fulfilling our needs for fast fashion means increased production and competition in clothing made in countries with low-wage economies. Our reporter Mark has been to the high street to find out more.

Here in a typical British high street there are plenty of bargains to be had. Handbags at £3.99, T-shirts for a fiver and shoes for under a tenner - all roughly equivalent to the price of an everyday meal. But how many of the people shopping in this high street have stopped to think about how it's possible to sell clothes so cheaply? Is it because some companies are turning a blind eye to the exploitation in the countries where these items are made? Ruth Rothelson is an expert on ethical shopping from the Ethical Consumer Research Association, who amongst other things produced the magazine 'Ethical Consumer'.

Ruth, just tell us what the Ethical Consumer Research Association is.

OK, well the Ethical Consumer Research Association exists to provide information for shoppers, letting them know what the companies are doing behind the brands that they see on the shelves.

So what makes an ethical shopper?

Very broadly speaking, people who are concerned about ethical issues want to know that the product they're buying hasn't been made at the expense of the people who are producing it, whether it's in this country or abroad. They might also be concerned with other kinds of issues: whether the company is involved in armaments, or whether they're donating money to certain political parties. And that as a shopper, you might not want to give your money to that party so therefore you might not want to buy a product from a company who is supporting a political party that you don't agree with.

And is there any kind of rule of thumb? Is something that's more expensive, for example, likely to be more ethical?

Unfortunately it isn't always the case that the more expensive something is, the more ethical it is. We can buy very cheap products and it's very likely that when products are cheap, something has suffered in order to get it to us. Whether it's the person making it or the animals or the environment. Quality however, is often a good indicator whether something, especially with clothes, has been made well. And unfortunately a lot of ethical products will cost more because they reflect the real cost of bringing that thing into the shops. So something that has been made in a factory where the workers have been paid a proper wage will cost you more to buy, simply because the people making it are getting paid enough to live on.

Do you have to be well off then to be an ethical shopper?

It really depends. You don't have to be rich to be an ethical shopper. One way of thinking about ethical shopping is thinking about buying less. Sometimes we buy an awful lot more than we need. We buy more items of clothing than we need. So being an ethical shopper really means thinking a bit before you go and spend your money in the shops. Some things may cost a little bit more in the short-run, but be worth it in the long-run. If you are paying for quality, something will last you longer and then save you money. And sometimes you can buy things second-hand. There's a lot of charity shops on the high street to buy good clothes. Sometimes you can look a lot better than someone who's just bought off the high street because you can have quite a unique look, and the quality that you find in most second-hand shops is really very good these days. So it's about thinking before you shop.

Thanks Ruth. Now among the shoppers here I've got Lauren and Bella. Starting with you Bella, would you consider shopping ethically?

Definitely for food. And clothing, well, when I buy clothes I wouldn't want to think of them being made in a sweat shop.

Lauren you do shop ethically. But you've got a slightly different take on it haven't you.

Yeah I suppose I shop ethically but my original thing for that was that I like to wear clothes that are different from everyone else. So I would start shopping for vintage clothes. So ethically, obviously they're second-hand so...also I buy a lot of clothes from market stalls, from fashion students maybe. So they're all made here, so they would be made ethically as well.

Thanks Lauren, thanks Bella. Well it's an interesting debate, and I'll certainly be doing my clothes shopping with a little bit more care in future.

Our reporter Mark, out among the dedicated and ethical followers of fashion there. And that's it for this time. Please remember that the opinions expressed in Trend UK are those of the individuals concerned, and not necessarily the views of the British Council. Don't forget, you can find out what the British Council is doing on contemporary UK by using your local British Council Information Centre or by checking our website www.britishcouncil.org, that's www.britishcouncil [all one word] .org. Just follow the links under 'Contact Us'. And while you're on the website you can also update your English by checking out the words and phrases in the Trend UK online glossary. And tell us what you think by sending us a comment or voting in the online poll. But for now, from me and all the Trend UK Team, bye bye.

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A Poet in Cinema: Andrei Tarkovsky - Free - A rare look at Andrei Tarkovsky's thoughts on life and filmmaking. Directed by Donatella Baglivo. (1983)

A Story of Healing - Free - Won Academy Award for best Documentary Short Subject. Follows a team of volunteers in Vietnam. (1997)

A World of Art: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Free - Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is a three dimensional encyclopedia of art history. Filmed in 2004.

Albert Einstein: How I See the World - Free - Documentary on physicist Albert Einstein which chronicles the experiences that lead him to become a great advocate for world peace. (1991)

Auschwitz - Free - Steven Spielberg creates a short documentary, narrated by Meryl Streep, on the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1 million people, most of them European Jews, were killed during World War II. (2015)

Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World - Free - Takes you into the life of Aleister Crowley, an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, and mountaineer, responsible for founding the religion of Thelema.

Albert Camus: The Madness of Sincerity - Free - About the life and work of writer Albert Camus, including interviews with his former mistresses and Camus' daughter Catherine and her twin brother Jean. (1997)

Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein - Free - Documentary on the two artists from 1966.

Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye - Free - A revealing look at the "Father of American Photography." Appeared in the PBS American Masters series. (1999)

Ansel Adams, Photographer - Free - Documentary reveals the artistic and technical approach of Ansel Adams, America's finest photographer of natural landscapes. (1958)

Ansel Adams: The Incisive Art - Free - Explores the work of one of America's most famous photographers, Ansel Adams as he goes beneath the surface to record nature and the quality of humanity. (1962)

Arduino: The Documentary - Free - Revisits a project launched in the Italian town of Ivrea back in 2005. The challenge? To develop cheap, easy-to-use electronics components for design students. (2010)

At the Museum - Free - The Museum of Modern Art (aka MoMA) creates an 8-part documentary series on what it takes to run a world-class museum. (2017)

Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief - Free - A mini-series created by Jonathan Miller explores the history of atheism in the world. (2004)

Audio Ammunition - Free - A series of short documentaries on The Clash and five of their classic studio albums. Produced by Google. (2013)

Bob Marley 'Come A Long Way' - Free - Documentary made for NZ tv show 'Good Day' by Dylan Taite. (1979)

Bed Peace - Free - 70 minute documentary revisits John and Yoko's famous 1969 Bed-Ins, which amounted to a peaceful protest against the Vietnam War. (2011)

Before the Flood - Free - Leonardo DiCaprio looks at climate change, and what must be done today to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet. (2016)

Beautiful Equations - Free - Artist/writer Matt Collings takes the plunge into an alien world of equations, asking top scientists to help him understand five of the most famous equations in science. (2010)

Bela Lugosi, Hollywood's Dark Prince - Free -Biographical documentary about Bela Lugosi (1882-1956), the legendary Hungarian actor most identified with the image of Dracula. (1995)

Benoit Mandelbrot: Father of Fractals - Free - In this final interview shot by filmmaker Erol Morris, Mandelbrot shares his love for mathematics and how it led him to his wondrous discovery of fractals. (2013)

Billie Holiday: The Life and Artistry of Lady Day - Free - What makes this low-budget documentary worthwhile is the music. The film features some of the best surviving footage of Holiday performing. (2004)

Black Coffee - Free - A three part look at "the world's most widely taken legal drug," a beverage whose intellectually intense die-hard enthusiasts give wine's a run for their money, from historical, political, social, and economic angles. (2007)

Blitzkrieg Bop - Free - Hour-long TV documentary takes an old school look at CBGB during the heyday. Features The Ramones, Blondie and The Dead Boys. Mixes live performance with short interview clips. (1978)

Bob Geldof: The Moment - Free - In a short documentary by Errol Morris, Bob Geldof talks about the greatest day in his life--stepping on the stage of Live Aid and raising money to end the famine in Africa. (2014)

Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud - Free - Documentary on the inventor/visionary/thinker R. Buckminster Fuller, produced and directed by four time Academy Award nominees Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon. (1996)

Brussels Express - Free - Directed by Sander Vandenbroucke, this 20 minute film explores the risks of cycling in modern Brussels, one of the most congested cities in today's Europe. (2012)

Bullfight at Malaga - Free - Photographed by Richard Leacock, this short film records what happened when the two greatest matadors tried to outdo each other in what became known as "The Bullfight of the Century." (2010)

Caravaggio - Free - A documentary by Robert Hughes (circa 1975)

Chick Corea: Documentary of Legendary Jazz Great, Pianist and Composer - Free - Short documentary features Sting, Bobby McFerrin, Bela Fleck, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and more.

Churchill's Island - Free - WWII propaganda film chronicling the defense of Great Britain. Won the very first Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. (1941)

Code Rush - Free - Documentary following the lives of Netscape engineers in Silicon Valley. (1998)

Conversations with Myself - Free - Alan Watts walks in the mountains and talks about the limitations of technology and the problem of trying to keep track of an infinite universe with a single tracked mind. (1971)

Cream's Farewell Concert - Free - Tony Palmer captured Cream's final show (starring, of course, Eric Clapton) at the Royal Albert Hall in London, November 21, 1968.

Creative Process: Norman McLaren - Free - This feature length documentary is a journey into Norman McLaren's process of artistic creation. (1990)

Cry Baby: The Pedal That Rocks the World - Free - Tells the story of the wah wah effect pedal, from its invention in 1966 to the present day. (2011)

Curious About Cuba: The Great Museums of Havana - Free - This film shows a side of the island nation that we seldom hear about: her art, history, and culture. (2008)

Cyberpunk - Free - Documentary introduces the culture of Cyberpunk. Features vintage footage of William Gibson & Timothy Leary (1990).

Dark Side of the Moon - Free - William Karel satirizes the notion that Stanley Kubrick was behind the great moon landing hoax. (2002)

David Bowie: Sound and Vision - Free - Takes you on a journey throug Bowie's career. Features interviews with Bowie, Iman his wife, his musical contemporaries including Iggy Pop, Moby and Trent Reznor. (2002)

David Bowie: The Story of Ziggy Stardust - Free - Film tells the story of how Bowie arrived at one of the most iconic creations in the history of pop music. The songs, the hairstyles, the fashion, etc. (2012)

David Lynch on the History of Surrealist Cinema - Free - Pretty much what the title said. (1987)

Day of the Dead - Free - Designers Charles and Ray Eames short portrait of the Mexican festival, Day of the Dead. (1957)

Death Mills - Free - Billy Wilder's documentary in German showing what Allies found when they liberated Nazi extermination camps. (1945)

Dial H for Hitchcock - Free - Made to celebrate the centenary of Hitchcock's birth, this documentary concentrates on his major US films. Surviving collaborators, colleagues, and directors are interviewed. (1999)

Diane Arbus: Masters of Photography - Free - The documentary created soon after the photographer's death is based on interviews with those who knew her best. (1972.)

Discovering Electronic Music: Revised - Free - Directed by Bernard Wilets, the film explores this idea: "We live in an age of technology in which machines touch every part of our lives. It is not surprising that music has also been influenced by technology." (1983)

Do Communists Have a Better Sex? - Free - Documentary explores sexual habits behind the Iron Curtain. (2007)

Dreams Are What We Wake Up From - Free - Documentary about Raymond Carver was directed by Daisy Goodwin and includes contributions from Richard Ford and Jay McInerney. (1989)

Dream of Life - Free - Directed by Steven Sebring, the film offers an intimate portrait of poet, painter, musician and singer Patti Smith. (2008)

Earthlings - Free - Narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, and with a soundtrack provided by Moby, Earthlings "is a feature-length documentary about our absolute economic dependence on animals raised as pets, food, clothing, entertainment and for scientific research." (2005)

Einstein's Brain - Free - A strange documentary that follows Japanese scholar Kenji Sugimoto's quest to find Einstein's brain. (1994)

Eraserhead Stories - Free - Offer as much information as you'll find anywhere on the making of David Lynch's first feature film. (2001)

Europe After the Rain - Free - Documentary on the two great art movements, Dada & Surrealism, created by the Arts Council of Great Britain. (1978)

Everything1017 - Free - A short documentary on how David Byrne and Brian Eno make music together. By the late visual artist Hillman Curtis. (2012)

Execution of a Teenage Girl - Free - In 2004, 16 year old Atefeh Sahaaleh was executed in Iran for adultery and "crimes against chastity" after she confessed, under torture, to being raped repeatedly by a 51 year old man. (2006)

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams - Free - Peabody award-winning film chronicles the life of Fitzgerald, one of America's greatest novelists, in images and ideas as lyrical and inventive as his prose. (2002)

Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood - Free - A look at "Gonzo journalist", Hunter S. Thompson with his collaborator, British illustrator, Ralph Steadman. (1978)

Fellini: A Director's Notebook - Free - Federico Fellini introduces himself to America in experimental documentary aired on TV. (1969)

Fellini, I'm a Born Liar - Free - A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. (2002)

First Orbit - Free - A real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station. (2011)

Flamenco at 5:15 - Free - An Oscar winning documentary takes you inside a Flamenco dance class. The film is about dance as it is about life. (1983)

Flâneur III - Free - An attempt at capturing the character of Paris by following the development of the city's different forms throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, in the spirit of the German philosopher Walter Benjamin. (1998)

For Neda - Free - An HBO documentary on the life of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman gunned down during the crushing of Iran's Green Revolution. (2010)

Founding Fathers - Free - Documentary narrated by Public Enemy's Chuck D presents the true history of hip hop.

Fractals: The Colors of Infinity - Free - Arthur C. Clarke brings us inside the world of fractal geometry, David Gilmour provides the soundtrack. (1995)

From One Second to the Next - Free - German director Werner Herzog presents a harrowing 35 minute film on the dangers of texting while driving. (2013)

Future Shock - Free - A short documentary based on a book written by futurist Alvin Toffler in 1970. It's narrated by Orson Welles. (1972)

Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine - Free - About the famous match between chess legend Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer created by IBM. (2003)

Gente del Po - Free - Michaelangelo Antonioni's documentary short on the people of the Po valley. (1947)

George Eastman House: Picture Perfect - Free - The urban estate of George Eastman, who made photographers of us all, is a treasure trove of photographs and one of the world's premier film archives. (2003)

Georges Bataille: À Perte de Vues - Free - Documentary on the subversive French philosopher Georges Bataille. (1997)

Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life in Art - Free -A short documentary on the painter narrated by Gene Hackman.

Giacometti - Free - An intimate look at Alberto Giacometti in his studio, making his iconic sculptures (1965)

Glass - Free - Directed by Bert Haanstra, this short documentary about the glass industry won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. (1958)

Glenn Gould - Off the Record and Glenn Gould - On the Record- Free - Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor made a pair of gorgeously shot documentaries about the Canadian pianist, giving viewers insight into his life and music. (1959)

Great Lakes, Bad Lines - Free - The story of two Michigan adventurers and their 500-mile, fossil-free journey across the Upper Peninsula along the route of Line 5 -- a 63-year-old pipeline - that threatens our inland waters and Great Lakes. Brought to you by Patagonia, Founders, Moosejaw, and Cherry Republic. (2016)

Haruki Murakami: In Search of this Elusive Writer - Free - Alan Yentob travels through Japan, from the midnight Tokyo of After Hours to the snowed-in Hokkaido of A Wild Sheep Chase, in a quest to find artifacts of the novelist's imaginary world.

"Heavy Metal Parking Lot - Free - Filmed in 1986 at a Maryland concert arena parking lot before a heavy metal show, this hilarious documentary is an unvarnished anthropological study of American metalheads in their mid-'80s glory. You can also see the 2006 followup,Heavy Metal Parking Lot Alumni: Where Are They Now."(1986)

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment - Free - 18-minute film features a selection of Cartier-Bresson's iconic photographs, along with rare commentary by the photographer himself. (1973)

Henry Miller Asleep & Awake - Free - Tom Schiller's 34 minute voyage into the world of Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn). (1975)

History of the Leica Camera - Free - The film is in German, but it's still great to watch.

Hofmann's Potion - Free - A balanced look at the history of LSD by Canadian filmmaker Connie Littlefield. (2002)

Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film - Free - Epic, 13-part documentary chronicles the early history of cinema. (1980)

Home - Free - Yann Arthus-Bertrand's film that will make you look at our planet in a new way. (2009)

Homemade American Music - Free - A history of rural southeastern traditional American music, as told and played by Mike Seeger and Alice Gerrard. (1980)

How Long is a Piece of String - Free - Alan Davies attempts to answer the proverbial question. But it turns out to be much harder than he thought. (2009)

Human, All Too Human - Free - A three part documentary on the life & thought of Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre. (1999)

Idem - Free - A short film by David Lynch on the art of making lithographs. Shot at the Idem studio in Paris. (2013)

If You Love This Planet - Free - Oscar-winning short film on the need for nuclear disarmament. (1982)

Iggy Pop and the Stooges - Free - A documentary from the always good South Bank Show. (2004)

I'll Find a Way - Free - Oscar-winning documentary presents Nadia, a 9-year-old girl with spina bifida. (1977)

Images of a Visionary World - Free - Avant-garde author Henri Michaux creates film trying to demonstrate the experience of taking hallucinogenic drugs. (1964)

Imaginary Landscapes - Free - Rare documentary features legendary producer Brian Eno offering insights on making music. (1989)

In Search of Moebius - Free - Documentary about Frenchman Jean Giraud, one of the most influential comic strip illustrators and authors of all time.

Inside: Dr. Strangelove - Free - Interviews with cast members, critics, editors, producers and others associated with the picture reveal how this Cold War worst-case-scenario developed into something so very... Kubrickian.

Inside the Rhapsody - Free - A short documentary on the making of Queen's classic song, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' (2002)

Jackson Pollock 51 - Free - Short documentary by Hans Namuth features the abstract expressionist painter up close, painting on glass. (1951)

Jacques Lacan Speaks - Free - The psychoanalyst gives a packed lecture at the Catholic University of Louvain in 1972, followed by a probing interview. One of only 2 known appearances by Lacan on film. Shot by Belgian documentarian Francoise Wolff. (1972)

Japanology - Free - Produced by NHK World, this series of documentaries explores many aspects of Japan, both traditional and contemporary: arts, sports, entertainment, food, technology, nature, etc.

Jazz Hot - Free - Django Reinhardt, violinist Stéphane Grappelli and their band the Quintette du Hot Club de France perform together in a short film designed to promote a UK tour. (1938)

Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You - Free - Documentary about the life of Jeff Buckley. Featuring contributions from his family, friends, band members and admirers including Brad Pitt, Elizabeth Fraser, Jimmy Page.

John Peel's Record Box - Free - British documentary explores the most prized records in John Peel's huge record collection, which he kept stored in a special box. (2005)

Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man - Free - Documentary on Argentina's most famous and beloved literary figure. (2000)

Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen - Free - This Canadian documentary captures Leonard Cohen just as he was poised to begin his singer-songwriter career. (1965)

Last Days at the Fillmore - Free - Documents the final days of Bill Graham's Fillmore West. (1972)

Laughing and Not Being Normal - Free - A documentary about the feminist music producer, Grimes. (2016)

Le dinosaure et le bébé, dialogue en huit parties entre Fritz Lang et Jean-Luc Godard - Free - A 1967 TV documentary featuring two great filmmakers (Jean-Luc Godard and Fritz Lang) in conversation. (1967)

Le Noise - Free - Directed by Adam Vollick, this movie features a live performance of Neil Young's album Le Noise. It was recorded at the studios of Daniel Lanois in LA. (2010)

Le silence du fleuve - Free - Documentary by Agnès Denis and Mehdi Lallaoui investigates the violent repression of Algerian demonstrators in Paris on October 17, 1961 (1991)

Lenny Bruce in "Lenny Bruce" - Free - In a "performance film," Lenny Bruce appears at San Francisco's Basin Street West in what was his next-to-last live appearance. (1967)

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man - Free (Limited to US audience) - A retrospective of Cohen's life and work. Features tribute performances of his songs by Beth Orton, Nick Cave, Martha and Rufus Wainwright, and U2. (2005)

Life in a Day - Video - Film captures for future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010. Executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald.

Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick - Free - Narrated by Malcolm McDowell, this short documentary examines the films Stanley Kubrick developed but didn't live long enough to make. Features interviews given by Kubrick's longtime producer Jan Harlan, Jack Nicholson, Sydney Pollack etc. (2007)

Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown - Free - Named the Best Documentary at the 2008 Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival, the film revisits the life and writings of H.P. Lovecraft, the father of modern horror fiction. (2008)

M.C. Escher: Adventures in Perception - Free - The first half of the film shows a lot of M.C. Escher's work accompanied by a dissonant score by Felix Visser. About halfway through, we see shots of Escher at work. (1971)

Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable - Free - Three- part, three-hour documentary with interviews about Marcel Duchamp, directed by Fabrice Maze. (2009)

Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices - Free - Documentary focuses on voice artist extraordinaire Mel Blanc. (2008)

Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse - Free - A 4 part look at the 2008 financial crisis by the CBC. (2011)

Memory of the Camps - Free - An attempt to revive a World War II film meant to document the Holocaust. Hitchcock was involved with the original project. (1985)

Metamorphose: M.C. Escher, 1898-1972 - Free - Reveals the life and work of artist M.C. Escher. (1999)

Michel Foucault: Beyond Good and Evil - Free - Documentary explores the controversial life and work of Michel Foucault. (1993)

Mingus - Free - A close-up of bass player and composer Charlie Mingus as he and his five-year-old daughter await eviction by the City of New York. (1968)

My Dinner with Abbie - Free - An ex flower child sits down for dinner with a revolutionary icon of the 60s and 70s, Abbie Hoffman. (1990)

N is a Number - Free - Documentary directed by George Paul Csicsery about the life of mathematician Paul Erdős.

Nanking - Free - A reminder of the heartbreaking toll war takes on the innocent, this award-winning documentary tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China. With Woody Harrelson, Mariel Hemingway and Jurgen Prochnow. (2007)

Nanook of the North - Free - The first feature length documentary. Directed by Robert J. Flaherty, the film, focusing on an Inuit family living in the Arctic Circle, was one of the first films to be selected for historical preservation by the Library of Congress. (1922)

Nazi VR - Free - A short documentary on how a virtual reality model of Auschwitz was created to successfully prosecute a German SS guard seven decades after WWII. (2017)

Nico-Icon - Free - Focuses on Nico, renowned for her associations with artist Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground. (1995)

No Substitute for Victory - Free - Propaganda, Pro-Vietnam documentary hosted by John Wayne. (1970)

No Maps for These Territories - Free - Brings you on a road trip and into the mind of cyberspace visionary William Gibson. (2000)

November 22, 1963 - Free - In a short documentary, Errol Morris asks what we can and cannot know about the Kennedy assassination. (2013)

Nuremberg Trials - Free - Riveting Russian documentary takes you inside the trials of the notorious German war criminals. (1947)

One Way Street - Free - Explores the life and work of German Jewish critic and philosopher, Walter Benjamin. (1993)

Operation Concrete (aka Opération béton) - Free - The first movie by Jean Luc Godard. It's a short documentary about the building of the dam. (1955)

Orwell Rolls in His Grave - Free - America's leading intellectuals discuss & examine the mix of businesses, politics & ideology that is the mainstream media. (2003)

Paul Klee: The Silence of the Angel - Free - A visual journey into the work of a major painter of the 20th century by Michael Gaumnitz, an award-winning documentarian of artists and sculptors. (2005)

Paul McCartney: Chaos & Creation at Abbey Road - Free - Sir Paul revisits the Beatles' recording techniques and vintage instruments used by the band. (2005)

Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness - Free - With Alain de Botton. A documentary series that shows how Nietzsche, Socrates and four other philosophers can change your life. (2000)

Philosophy and the Matrix: Return to the Source - Free - Documentary looks at how The Matrix dealt with questions about religious revelation and authority, parapsychology, free will and determinism, and the nature of personal identity. (2004)

Pickin' & Trimmin' - Free - Award-winning short documentary features bluegrass musicians in a down-home North Carolina barbershop. (2008)

Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea - Free - Cult movie legend John Waters narrates an offbeat documentary on the accidental lake created in the desert of Southern California. (2004)

Portrait of an Artist: Jackson Pollock - Free - Documentary of the abstract expressionist artist narrated by Melvyn Bragg. (1987)

Powers of Ten - Free - Famous short film depicts the relative scale of the Universe in factors of ten. Made by legendary designers Ray and Charles Eames. (1977)

Profile of a Writer: Jorge Luis Borges - Free - Arena documentary the life and writings of Argentina's favorite son, Jorge Luis Borges. (1983)

Pussy Riot: The Movement - Free - Narrated by Daryl Hannah, this documentary profiles Pussy Riot and their disturbing two-year prison sentences for singing a punk song in a Moscow cathedral. (2013)

Ray Bradbury: Story of a Writer - Free - A half-hour television documentary about Ray Bradbury. (1963)

Red Shirley - Free - Lou Reed's short documentary on his fascinating 100-year-old cousin. (2010)

Report from the Aleutians - Free - John Huston, while a member of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1943, creates an Academy Award winning documentary about the Armed Forces' effort to prevent the fall of the Aleutian Islands to Japanese troops. (1943)

Road to the Stars - Free - Directed by Pavel Klushantsev, this Soviet documentary combines elements of science education films and speculative science fiction. It was groundbreaking for its use of special effects to depict life in space. (1957)

Rock and Roll Heart- Free - American Masters documentary retraces the remarkable career of Lou Reed. (1998)

Room 666 - Free - Wim Wenders interviews 16 directors (including Steven Spielberg, Jean-Luc Godard, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder) at the '82 Cannes Film Festival and talks about the state of cinema. (1982)

Room to Dream: David Lynch and the Independent Filmmaker - Free - David Lynch explains how he brings his unique vision to the screen with technologies that are now within reach for independent filmmakers. (2005)

Russia's Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin - Free - Stephen Fry hosts a documentary exploring the vital literary scene in contemporary Russia. (2014)

Samurai Sword: Making of a Legend - Free - This story of the Katana sword provides a unique insight into the Samurai masters and the swords they use. (2008)

Sea of Faith - Free - In this six-part series, Don Cupitt explores the history of Christianity in the modern world, exploring the works of philosophers like Blaise Pascal, René Descartes, Kierkegaard, Jung, Freud, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and more. (1984)

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit - Free - A kind of video diary of poet Allen Ginsberg's last days. (1997)

Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising - Free - Dick Cavett narrates the history of advertising, from ancient times to modern. (1999)

¿Sería Buenos Aires? - Free - An award-winning documentary looking at Argentina's response to modern crises. (2006)

She's Nobody's Baby: A History of American Women in the 20th Century - Free - Alan Alda and Marlo Thomas trace the evolution of the roles and lives of women in the 20th century. (1982)

Shock of the New - Free - Art critic Robert Hughes looks at the the development of modern art since the Impressionists. (1980)

Six Sports Mini Documentaries by Errol Morris - Free - These films touching on the weird side of sports were made for ESPN in March 2015.

Sketches of Frank Gehry - Free - Sydney Pollack documentary explores Frank Gehry's creative process, from sketching to making the physical and 3D models to the construction itself. (2005)

Soft Self Portrait of Salvador Dali - Free - French director Jean-Christophe Averty traveled to Spain in 1970 and shot a surreal biographical documentary on the artist. (1970)

Some Yo Yo Stuff - Free - A short film about Captain Beefheart by Anton Corbijn. (1993)

Stanley Kubrick's Boxes - Free - Several years after his death, the widow of Stanley Kubrick asked Jon Ronson to look through the contents of about 1,000 boxes of meticulously sorted materials Kubrick left in house. (2008)

Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise - Free - Experimental jazz visionary Sun Ra was filmed on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980 by director Robert Mugge. Includes public and private performances, poetry readings, interviews and extensive improvisations with Sun Ra and his Arkestra. (1980)

Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life - Free - A musical short that features Duke Ellington's early extended piece, "A Rhapsody of Negro Life." Stars 19-year-old Billie Holiday. (1935)

The ABCs of Dada - Free - Explores the origins of and contributors to the Dada movement. (2012)

The American West of John Ford - Free - A documentary encapsulating the career and Western films of director John Ford, featuring interviews with John Wayne, James Stewart and Henry Fonda. (1971)

The Artist Formerly Known as Captain Beefheart - Free - Elaine Shepherd's classic BBC documentary, introduced and narrated by John Peel. (1997)

The Battle of Midway - Free - Directed by John Ford. Narrated by Henry Fonda. On June 4-6, 1942, Japanese forces attempted to capture Midway Island in the North Pacific, but were defeated by U.S. forces. On hand was a crew of naval photographers directed by John Ford. (1942)

The Battle of San Pietro - Free - John Huston's war time documentary. (1945)

The Charles Bukowski Tapes - Free - A collection of 52 short interviews conducted by French filmmaker Barbet Schroeder, who directed the Bukowski-penned Barfly. (1987)

The Church Of Saint Coltrane - Free - Directed by Gayle Gilman and Jeff Swimmer, this film looks at The Church of Saint Coltrane in San Francisco, which has canonized John Coltrane as their patron saint and on Sundays holds five-hour jam sessions interspersed with liturgy and fellowship. (1996)

The Confessions of Robert Crumb - Free - A portrait of the artist scripted by the underground comics legend himself (1987)

The Crazy Never Die - Free - 30 minute shot-on-video documentary that looks into the more publicly wild and performative side of Hunter S. Thompson's personality. (1988)

The Cry of Jazz - Free - Controversial film by Ed Bland explores issues around African-Americans and jazz in the United States. Includes interviews with artists and intellectuals and performances by Sun Ra and John Gilmore. In 2010, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. (1958)

The Distortion of Sound - Free - A documentary about the decline of sound quality and how technology has changed the way we listen to music. Features numerous musicians. (2014)

The Fighting Lady - Free - Directed by William Wyler, this film provides a portrait of life on a World War II aircraft carrier (1944)

The Four Horsemen - Free - Directed by Ross Ashcroft, the indie documentary is a "jeremiad against the folly of Neo-classical economics and the threats it represents to all we should hold dear." (2012)

The Genius of Charles Darwin - Free - A three part series presented by Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins. (2008)

The God Delusion - Free - Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins argues that the world would be better off without religion. The film accompanied a book by the same title. (2006)

The Godmother of Rock N Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Free - The life, music & influence of African-American gospel singer and guitar virtuoso Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Directed by Mick Csaky. Find film at bottom of linked page. (2014)

The History of the Typewriter Recited by Michael Winslow - Free - Sound effects genius Michael Winslow performs the sounds of 32 typewriters made between 1898-1983. (2010)

The House I Live In - Free - A ten-minute short film starring Frank Sinatra made to oppose anti-Semitism and racial prejudice at the end of World War II. (1945)

The Joy of Stats - Free - Hans Rosling says there's nothing boring about stats, and then proves it in an one-hour long documentary. (2010)

The Land Where the Blues Began - Free - Alan Lomax takes you into the Mississippi Delta, into to the heart of the Blues. (1978)

The Last 48 Hours of Kurt Cobain - Free - British documentary takes a look the final days of Kurt Cobain, the Nirvana frontman who committed suicide in 1994. (2007)

The James Dean Story - Free - Documentary on the life and times of James Dean made by the great filmmaker Robert Altman -- MASH, The Player, Gosford Park, etc. (1957)

The Love for Wood - Free - A documentary about well known Dutch chess players, featuring Jan Timman, Hans Ree, Piet Hein Donner, Max Euwe and others. It's a beautiful document of the period and the state of chess at that time. English subtitles. (1979)

The Magic Sun - Free - Artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra in their prime. (1968)

The Making of Dark Side of the Moon - Free - A look inside the creation of a famous Pink Floyd album. (2003)

The March - Free - James Blues's "visually stunning, moving, and arresting documentary of the hope, determination, and camaraderie" embodied by The Great March on Washington. (1964)

The Men Who Made the Movies: Hitchcock - Free - A look at Alfred Hitchcock's films. The Master of Suspense himself, who is interviewed extensively here, shares stories about filmmaking. (1973)

The Mystery of Picasso - Free - Pablo Picasso's art emerges in front of our eyes in this remarkable film by the French master of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot. (1956)

The New Cinema - Free - Never-aired TV documentary takes a look at the new Hollywood scene emerging in 1967. Features footage of Dustin Hoffman, Roman Polanski, Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. (1968)

The Nomi Song - Free - Andrew Horn's doc about the life of singer Klaus Nomi. Debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival and won a Teddy Award for "Best Documentary Film. (2004)

The Owl's Legacy (L'Héritage de la chouette) - Free - Created by French director Chris Marker, this 13 episode program examines the roots of western culture in Ancient Greece. It was never broadcast. (1989)

The Penultimate Truth About Philip K. Dick - Free - Documentary about the mystical experiences of sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick. (2007)

The Photographer - Free - Reveals the philosophy, techniques & artistry of Edward Weston (1948)

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Free - Features Richard Feynman, the charismatic, Nobel prize-winning physicist, talking in a very personal way about the joys of scientific discovery. (1981)

The Power of Nightmares - Free - A three-part history of how radical Islamism in many ways paralleled the rise of Neo-Conservatism. Though critically acclaimed, it never aired in America. (2004)

The Real Bruce Lee - Free - This martial arts documentary begins with a brief biography of Bruce Lee, and shows scenes from four of his childhood films, Bad Boy, Orphan Sam, Kid Cheung, and The Carnival, each sepia-toned and dubbed to English. (1979)

The Responsive Eye - Free - Brian DePalma's short film documenting the opening night of an OP ART exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1966.

The Seafarers - Free - It was Stanley Kubrick's third film, and his first in color. Otherwise, not of great note. (1953)

The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler - Free - 1950's television documentary that includes interviews with Hitler's sister Paula Wolf and footage from Eva Braun's rare home movies.

The Simulation Hypothesis - Free - Are we living in a virtual reality? And if so, could we ever tell? Features Appearances by Max Tegmark, Neil degrasse Tyson, Paul Davies and James Gates (2015).

The Space Shuttle - Free - History of the US Space Shuttle program narrated by William Shatner. (2011)

The Spanish Earth - Free - A Spanish Civil War propaganda film written and narrated by Ernest Hemingway. (1937)

The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays - Free - Puppets of Dostoevsky, Dickens and Poe star in an educational science film created by Frank Capra. (1957)

The Story of Glenn O'Brien's 'TV Party' - Free - A VICE documentary on the groundbreaking 1970s New York cable TV show that featured figures like David Bowie, David Byrne, Robert Fripp, the B-52s, Klaus Nomi, and more. (2014)

The Story of Wish You Were Here - Free - Takes you inside the making of Pink Floyd's 1975 album. (2012)

The Tibetan Book of the Dead - Free - Narrated by Leonard Cohen and featuring the Dalai Lama, the film explores an essential teaching in the Buddhist cultures of the Himalayas. (1994)

The Unchained Goddess - Free - After winning three Oscars for best director, Frank Capra produced a science education film on the weather that made one of the first arguments for taking action against climate change. (1958)

The Veg Effect: A Vegetarian Documentary - Free - Directed by Alison Klayman (Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry), the series follows 5 real stories, from real people with very different lives, each choosing to make a difference with their own personal way to veg. (2016)

The World of Buckminster Fuller - Free - Directed by Robert Snyder, this documentary transports you into Fuller's mind and soul. It's told entirely in his own words. (1974)

Triumph of the Will - Free - (1935) The major Nazi propaganda work by Leni Riefenstahl. With subtitles.

The Ten-Year Lunch - Free - Oscar-winning film about the writers who sat at the Algonquin Round Table in New York during the 1920s. (1986)

The True Glory - Free - War time propaganda documentary directed by Carol Reed, with General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General George S. Patton. (1945)

The Universal Mind of Bill Evans - Free - 1966 documentary takes you inside the creative process/world of jazz pianist Bill Evans.

The Velvet Underground: A Symphony of Sound - Free -Produced by Andy Warhol, the film shows VU performing a 67-minute instrumental improvisation. (1966)

They Were There - Free - 30-minute film by Errol Morris, commissioned by IBM to celebrate the company's centennial. Music by Philip Glass.

The World According to John Coltrane - Free - Produced with his widow Alice Coltrane, the documentary focuses on the later period of Coltrane's work where he explored themes of Eastern spirituality. (1990)

The World At War - Free - Acclaimed 26-episode WWII documentary "The World at War" was produced by Thames Television and aired in 1973-1974.

There is No Authority But Yourself - Free - Feature documentary about seminal anarcho-punk band Crass, directed by Dutch filmmaker Alexander Oey. (2006)

This is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium is the Message - Free - "Marshall McLuhan discusses his controversial communications theories in this experimental documentary produced by Oscar-winner Ernest Pintoff and Guy Fraumeni." Came out the same year as his book: The Medium is the Massage.(1967)

This is Ska - Free - Filmed on location in Kingston, Jamaica, this documentary features performances by a who's who of up-and-coming ska artists, including Prince Buster, Jimmy Cliff and The Maytals. (1964)

Thomas Pynchon: A Journey Into the Mind of P. - Free - A documentary, written & directed by Donatello Dubini & Fosco Dubini, on the reclusive novelist. (2008)

Tokyo Girls - Free - A candid journey into the world of 4 young Canadian women who work as well-paid hostesses in exclusive Japanese nightclubs. These modern-day geisha find themselves caught up in the mizu shobai - the complex "floating water world" of Tokyo clubs and bars. (2000)

Tolstoy Remembered - Free - Documentary features Tolstoy's daughter. Directed by Michael Rabiger. (1970)

Tom Waits: A Day in Vienna - Free - Tom Waits sings and tells stories in film that originally aired on Austrian TV. (1979)

Toute la mémoire du monde (All the World's Memories) - Free - Alain Resnais's short documentary looks at the inner workings of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. It's "a meditative piece about the fragility of human memory and the ways in which we try to shore it up." (1956)

TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard - Free - Documentary based around the interpersonal triumphs and defeats of the three main figures running the file sharing web site, Pirate Bay. (2013)

Trapped: Andy Warhol's Amiga Experiments - Free - Short film documents how Carnegie Mellon experts recovered lost paintings that Andy Warhol made on the Commodore Amiga computer during the 1980s.

Tunisian Victory - Free - World War II documentary directed by Frank Capra and narrated by Burgess Meredith. (1944)

UFOs: It Has Begun - Free - Documentary narrated by Rod Serling explores the existence of UFOs and extra-terrestrial beings. (1979)

Unguided Tour AKA Letter from Venice - Free - Susan Sontag adapted the Italian-language feature from her story of the same name, originally published in 1977 in the New Yorker. (1983)

Van Gogh: Painted with Words - - Written and directed by Andrew Hutton, this drama-documentary about Vincent Van Gogh features Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role. (2010)

Vegetarian World - Free - "William Shatner walks us through the history, benefits, and misconceptions of adhering to a vegetarian diet." (1982)

Velvet Underground: Under Review - Free - 75 minute film reviewing the music and career of one of rock music's most influential collectives; a band which esteemed music journalist Lester Bangs claims 'started modern music'. US & Canadian viewers only. (2006)

Vermeer: Master of Light - Free - Explores Vermeer's compositional methods and techniques. Narrated by Meryl Streep. (2001)

Victory at Sea - Free - Award-winning, 26 episode TV series chronicling naval warfare during WWII. (1953)

Vietnam! Vietnam! - Free - The last film produced by the legendary John Ford was a work of propaganda commissioned by the United States government in support of the Vietnam War. (1971)

View from the Overlook: Crafting the Shining - Free - A 30-minute look at how Stanley Kubrick came to make the "scariest movie in the world. Directed by Gary Leva. (2007)

Virginia Woolf: A Novelist - Free - Draws on old maps, contemporary drawings and paintings, portraits and other archive material to present an outline of Virginia Woolf's life and to convey a picture of the social and historical background to her writing.

Viva Joe Strummer - Free - A documentary look at the great frontman of The Clash. (2005)

Waiting for Beckett - Free - Rare feature-length documentary on the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett. (1993)

Warhol's Cinema - A Mirror for the Sixties - Free -This 64 minute documentary from 1989 examines Andy Warhol's films from the 1960s. (You can view several of these films -- Eat, Sleep, and Kiss -- here.)
(1989)

Watching My Name Go By - Free - A short documentary about the early days of graffiti culture in New York City. (1976)

Wattstax - Free - Documents the "Black Woodstock" concert held 7 years after the Watts Riots. (1973)

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe - Free - Herzog loses a bet to Errol Morris and eats a shoe with the help of chef Alice Waters. (1980)

Who's Out There? - Free - Orson Welles narrates a documentary asking whether there's extraterrestrial life in the Universe. (1975)

Who is Afraid of Ai Weiwei? - Free - A short PBS Frontline documentary on the dissident Chinese artist. (2011)

Who's Afraid Of Machiavelli - Free - This documentary asks how relevant Machiavelli's book, The Prince, is 500 years after its publication. (2013)

Why We Fight - Free - A seven part series of WWII propaganda films directed by Frank Capra. (1943)

What is Reality? - Free - Physicists give us a taste of reality in a world where nothing is as it appears. (2011)

What the Future Sounded Like? -Free - From Dr Who to The Dark Side of the Moon, "the pioneering members of the Electronic Music Studios radically changed the sound-scape of the 20th Century. What the Future Sounded Like tells this fascinating story of British electronic music." (2007)

William S. Burroughs: 100 Years - Free - A short feature on the life of writer William S. Burroughs by the LA Review of Books. (2014)

William S. Burroughs & Lawrence - Free - William S. Burroughs and his years in Lawrence, Kansas. He lived in Lawrence longer than in any other place and chose to spend the last several years of his life here. (2014)

WikiRebels - Free - Documentary by Swedish public television chronicles history of Wikileaks. (2010)

Woody Guthrie - Free - Covers the life of Woody Guthrie, America's great travelling singer-songwriter. (1988)

You Don't Know Jack - Free - Morgan Spurlock's short documentary on the 15-year-old who invented a new way to detect early stage pancreatic cancer. (2013)

Young At Heart - Free - An Oscar winning documentary about two widowed artists in their mid-80's who meet on a painting tour to England and fall madly in love. (2007)

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Beckett, Samuel - The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 - Free Audio Stream

Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot (Live Reading) - Real Player

Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot (Theatrical performance with Bert Lahr) - Spotify

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Borges, Jorge Luis - Ibn Hakkan Al-Bokhari, Dead in his Labyrinth (Read by Orhan Pamuk) - Free Stream

Borges, Jorge Luis - Shakespeare's Memory - Free Stream

Borges, Jorge Luis - "The Book of Sand" - Free Stream

Borges, Jorge Luis - The Gospel According to Mark (read by Paul Theroux) - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - Futuria Fantasia (a sci fi short story collected edited by Ray Bradbury) - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - All Summer in a Day - Free Stream/MP3

Bradbury, Ray - The Golden Apples of the Sun - Free Stream/MP3

Bradbury, Ray - The Pedestrian - YouTube

Bradbury, Ray - The Martian Chronicles & The Illustrated Man Read by Leonard Nimoy - YouTube

Bradbury, Ray - The Martian Chronicles (Radio drama with Derek Jacobi & Hayley Atwell) - Spotify

Bradbury, Ray - Radio Dramas of Bradbury Stories - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - "The Last Night of the World" - Soundcloud

Brodkey, Harold - "Dumbness is Everything" (read by Michael Cunningham) - Free Stream

Brodkey, Harold - "Spring Fugue" (read by Jeffrey Eugenides) - Free MP3

Brodkey, Harold - "The State of Grace" (read by Richard Ford ) - Free Stream

Bronte, Anne - Agnes Grey - Free iTunes

Brown, Margaret Wise - Good Night Moon (Read by Susan Sarandon) - YouTube

Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden (Read by Karen Gillan) - Free iTunes

Burroughs, William S. - Call Me Burroughs (his first spoken word album) - Spotify

Burroughs, William S. - "Ghosts of Chance" - YouTube

Burroughs, William S. - Junky - MP3s

Burroughs, William S. - Let Me Hang You (posthumous album featuring readings of Naked Lunch to music) - Spotify

Burroughs, William S. - The Best of William Burroughs, Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales, Dead City Radio, Break Through in Grey Room, and Call Me Burroughs - Spotify

Burroughs, William S. - "Thanksgiving Prayer" - YouTube

Burroughs, William S. - The Road to the Western Lands - Spotify

Calvino, Italo - Invisible Cities (excerpts read by Calvino) - Free Stream

Calvino, Italo - "Love Far from Home" (read by Salman Rushdie) - Free Stream

Calvino, Italo - The Night Driver (read by Jeanette Winterson) - Free Stream

Calvino, Italo - "The Daughters of the Moon" (read by Robert Coover) - Free Stream

Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (read by Cory Doctorow) - Multiple formats

Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (read by Sir John Gielgud) - Stream/Spotify

Carroll, Lewis - The Game of Logic - Free iTunes

Carroll, Lewis - Through the Looking Glass (Read by Joan Greenwood, Stanley Holloway) - Spotify

Carver, Raymond - "Cathedral" (read by James Naughton) - YouTube

Carver, Raymond - "Chef's House" (read by David Means) - Free MP3

Carver, Raymond - "Fat" (read by Anne Enright) - Free MP3

Carver, Raymond - "The Students' Wife (read by Richard Ford) - Free MP3

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Cheever, John - "The Death of Justina" (read by John Cheever) - Free Stream/Download

Cheever, John " The Enormous Radio" (read by Nathan Englander) - Free Stream

Cheever, John - "The Reunion" (read by Richard Ford) - Free MP3

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Chekhov, Anton - "The Beauties" (read by Philip Pullman) - Free MP3

Chekhov, Anton - "The First Class Passenger," "Harmfulness of Tobacco" and "A Transgression" (Read by Michale Redgrave) - Spotify

Chabon, Michael - "S Angel" (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Chopin, Kate - Selected Stories - Multiple Formats

Christian Andersen, Hans - Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, including The Emperor's New Clothes, read by Sir Michael Redgrave - Free Spotify

Christian Andersen, Hans - Andersen's Fairy Tales - Free MP3

Clarke, Arthur C. - "A Walk in the Dark" (A dramatized version of the text) - Free MP3 Stream

Clarke, Arthur C. - "Breaking Strain" - YouTube

Clarke, Arthur C. - Childhood's End (Excerpts read by the author) - YouTube

Clarke, Arthur C. - "Hammer of God" - Free MP3

Clarke, Arthur C. - "The Nine Billion Names of God" and "The Star" - Free Stream/Download

Clarke, Arthur C. - "The Star" (Radio Drama) - YouTube

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Conan Doyle, Arthur - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (64 Hours of Readings) - Spotify

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Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness (Orson Welles' radio drama from 1938) - YouTube

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Cooper, James Fenimore - Jack Tier, or the Florida Reef - Free MP3

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy (Italian) - Free Stream from Princeton University

Dante Alighieri - Divina Commedia (Full reading in Italian) - Free Stream/MP3

Dante Alighieri - The Inferno, Cantos I-VIII (Read by John Ciardi) - Spotify

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Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe (alternate version read by Nigel Graham) - Spotify

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Diaz, Junot - "Alma" (read by Victor Rasuk) - YouTube

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Diaz, Junot - "The Cheaters Guide to Love" - YouTube

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Dick, Philip K. - "The Eyes Have It" - Free MP3

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Dickens, Charles - 24 Hours of Dickens Stories Featuring Classic Recordings by Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles & More - Free YouTube

Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol (Read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Stream

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Dr Who Audio Dramas - Spotify

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Faulkner, William - "Shingles for the Lord" - Free Stream

Faulkner, William - Faulkner Reads Faulkner - Free Stream

Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby - Free Stream

Flaubert, Gustave - Three Short Works

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Gogol, Nikolai - "The Nose" - Free MP3

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Gordimer, Nadine - "City Lovers" (read by Tessa Hadley) - Free MP3

Gordimer, Nadine - "Loot" (read by author) - YouTube

Gordimer, Nadine - "The Pet" (read by Joseph O'Neill) - Free Stream

Grahame, Kenneth - The Reluctant Dragon (read by Boris Karloff) - YouTube

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter - Spotify

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - "Wakefield" (Read by Paul Auster) - YouTube

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Heinlein, Robert - Methuselah's Children (abridged) - Free Stream/MP3

Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms (1948 radio drama) - YouTube

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Hemingway, Ernest - Homage to Switzerland (read by Julian Barnes) - Free MP3

Hitchcock, Alfred - Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories for Young People - Spotify

Homer, The Iliad (Based on Samuel Butler Translation) - Free MP3 Zip File

Hughes, Langston - "Simple on Indian Blood"(read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "A Toast to Harlem" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "Last Whipping" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "Feet Live Their Own Life" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

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Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Abridged version read by Christopher Lee) - Spotify

Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World (Dramatized version read by Huxley) - Free Stream

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Kafka, Franz - "A Little Fable" (Read by David Foster Wallace) - Free Stream

Kafka, Franz - "A Hunger Artist" (read by Hanif Kureishi) - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - "Before the Law" - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - "In the Penal Colony - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis - Free iTunes - Free MP3 - Free Stream - Spotify

Karloff, Boris - Tales of the Frightened - YouTube

Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, etc -- 18 Hours of Beat Readings -- Spotify

Kincaid, Jamaica - "Figures in the Distance" (read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) - Free MP3

Kincaid, Jamaica - "Girl" and "Wingless" (read by Edwidge Danticat) - Free Stream

King, Stephen - "Afterlife" - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - Kim - Free iTunes

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Kipling, Rudyard - The Jungle Story - Free MP3 Zip File

L'Heureux, John - "Three Short Moments in a Long Life" - Free MP3 Stream

Lawrence, D.H. - A Woman and Her Dead Husband - Free MP3

Le Guin, Ursula - "The End" (Dramatized version) - Free MP3 Stream

Leroux, Gaston - The Phantom of the Opera (abridged) - Spotify

Lewis, C.S. - The Chronicles of Narnia - Free MP3s

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Silver Chair

The Horse and His Boy

The Magician's Nephew

The Last Battle

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Lewis, Sinclair - It Can't Happen Here (reading of an adapted play) - YouTube

London, Jack -To Build a Fire - Free MP3

Lovecraft, H.P - The Call of of Cthulhu & Other Stories - Spotify

Lovecraft, H.P. - The Outsider and The Hound (read by Roddy McDowall) - Free

Lu Xun - A Madman's Diary and Other Stories - Free MP3 Zip File

Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice - Free MP3s/Download

McCabe, Eugene - Annahullian (read by Colm Tóibín) - Free MP3

McCann, Colum - "Transatlantic" (read by author) - Free MP3

McEwan, Ian - "My Purple Scented Novel" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Melville, Herman - Moby-Dick read by Celebrities (Benedict Cumberbatch, John Waters, Stephen Fry, Tilda Swinton & More) - Free Stream/Download

Melville, Herman - Moby-Dick read by Other Celebrities - SoundCloud

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Miller, Arthur - Readings from The Crucible and Death of a Salesman - Spotify

Miller Jr, Walter M. - A Canticle for Leibowitz (Dramatized Version) - Free Stream

Miller, William - Rent Party Jazz (read by Viola Davis) - YouTube

Milne, A.A. - Winnie the Pooh (read Disney Book Group) - Free iTunes

Moore, Lorrie - "Paper Losses" (read by Gary Shteyngart) - Free Stream

Munro, Alice - "Axis" - Free MP3

Murakami, Haruki - "Barn Burning" - Free Stream

Murakami, Haruki - "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" - Free Stream

Murakami, Haruki - "U.F.O. in Kushiro" - Free Stream

Nabokov, Vladimir - My Russian Education (Read by Orhan Pamuk) - Free MP3

Nabokov, Vladimir - "Pnin" - Free Stream

Nabokov, Vladimir - Signs and Symbols - Free iTunes

Nabokov, Vladimir - Vladimir Nabokov Reads from Lolita & Selected Poems - Spotify

Nin, Anais - "Under a Glass Bell" (Read by the author) - YouTube

NPR - Star Wars Trilogy Radio Drama - YouTube

O'Connor, Flannery - "A Good Man is Hard to Find." (Read by author in 1959) - Stream/Download

O'Connor, Flannery - "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (Read by Estelle Parsons) - YouTube

O'Connor, Flannery - "Revelation" (Read by Studs Terkel) - Stream

O'Connor, Frank - "The Man of the World" (read by Julian Barnes) MP3

Oates, Joyce Carol - "Mastiff" (read by Louise Erdrich) - Free Stream

Orwell, George - 1984 (Radio Drama from 1949 starting David Niven) - Free Stream

Orwell, George - 1984 (Complete reading by Pacifica Radio) - Soundcloud

Orwell, George - Animal Farm - Spotify version

Oz, Amos - "The King of Norway" (read by Jonathan Safran Foer) - Free Stream

Ozick, Cynthia - "The Shawl" (read by Joyce Carol Oates) - Free Stream

Paley, Grace - "Love" (read by George Saunders) - Free Stream

Plath, Sylvia - Three Women (a radio play) - Free Stream

Poe, Edgar Allan - 5 Hours of Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Essential Edgar Allan Poe - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - "The Masque of the Red Death" and Annabel Lee (read by William S. Burroughs) - Free YouTube Audio

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Cask of Amontillado - Free MP3/Stream - FREE from Audible.com

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Mask of the Red Death (read by William S. Burroughs) - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Pit and the Pendulum - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Stan Lee) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by James Earl Jones) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Neil Gaiman) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by John Astin) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (as read by Anne Waldman) - SoundCloud

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Lee) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Vincent Price) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart (read by Christopher Lee) - Free YouTube Audio

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart (read by Iggy Pop) - Free YouTube Audio

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart, Silence, Annabel Lee (read by James Mason) - Free Stream

Porter, Eleanor - Pollyanna - Free MP3 Zip File

Price, Vincent - The Price of Fear (Classic radio show featuring Vincent Price) - Free YouTube

Pritchett, V.S. - The Rescue (Read by Jonathan Lethem) - Free Stream

Prokofiev, Sergei - Peter and the Wolf (Narrated by David Bowie) - Spotify

Proust, Marcel - À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (Œuvre Intégrale) (in French) - Free Stream

Ratcliffe, Stephen - Continuum - Free MP3 Stream

Rand, Ayn - Anthem - Spotify

Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front - Free Stream

Ruskin, John - The Golden River - Free MP3

Safran Foer, Jonathan - "Love is Blind and Deaf" - Video Animation

Saramago, José - "The Centaur" (Read by Nadine Gordimer) - Free MP3

Sartre, Jean-Paul (Performed by Lucy Lawless and Jaime Murray) - Free Stream

Sedaris, David - "The Mouse and the Snake" from Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary - Free MP3 - Web site

Sedaris, David - "Six to Eight Black Men" from the album 'Live at Carnegie Hall' - YouTube Audio

Sedaris, David - "Solution to Saturday's Puzzle"from When You Are Engulfed in Flames - Free MP3

Sendak, Maurice - Where the Wild Things Are (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

Seuss, Dr. - Green Eggs and Ham (read by Neil Gaiman) - YouTube

Seuss, Dr. - How The Grinch Stole Christmas (read by Boris Karloff) - Spotify

Seuss, Dr. - How The Grinch Stole Christmas (read by Keith Morrison) - YouTube

Schwartz, Delmore - "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" (Read by Lou Reed) - Free Stream

Shakespeare, William - A 68 Hour Playlist of Shakespeare's Plays Being Performed by Great Actors: Gielgud, McKellen & More - Free on Spotify

Shakespeare, William - 10 Plays Performed by Orson Welles on the Radio - Free Stream

Shakespeare, William - Hamlet (Starring John Gielgud) - Spotify + Archive.org

Shakespeare, William - Macbeth (with Alec Guinness) - Free Spotify

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (narrated by Aaron Mahnke of the Lore podcast) - Free iTunes

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein - Free iTunes - Free MP3 - FREE from Audible.com

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (Abridged version read by Christophe Lee) - Spotify

Shepard, Sam - "Indianapolis (Highway 74)" read by Dave Eggers - Free Stream

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree (Animated film narrated by the author) - YouTube

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree (Read by Arianna Huffington) - YouTube

Singer, Isaac Bashevis - Disguised (read by Nathan Englander) - Free MP3

Smith, Zadie - "Escape from New York" (read by Zadie Smith) - Free Audio Stream

Stein, Gertrude - If I Told Him: a Completed Portrait of Picasso - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - Matisse - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - The Fifteenth Of November . . . T. S. Eliot - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - The Making of Americans - Free MP3

Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Read by Christopher Lee) - Spotify

Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island (Read by Hans Conried) - Spotify

Stoker, Bram - Dracula (Read by Christopher Lee) - Spotify

Stone, Tanya Lee - The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams (Read by Kiernan Shipka) - YouTube

Thomas, Dylan - A Child's Christmas in Wales (read by Thomas) - Youtube

Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina - Free Stream

Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina -

Tolstoy, Leo - Five Short Stories - Spotify

Tolstoy, Leo - Selected Short Stories - Free Stream/MP3

Tolstoy, Leo - What Men Live By and Other Tales - Free iTunes

Tolstoy, Leo - Selected Short Stories - Free Multiple formats

Wells, Tower - "Leopard" (Read by David Sedaris) - Free MP3 Stream

Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Multiple versions here

Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Spotify version

Unknown - Epic of Gilgamesh - Free iTunes

Unknown - Sir Gawain and the Green Night - Free MP3 Zip File

Updike, John - "Playing with Dynamite" (read by Roger Angell) - Free MP3

Updike, John - "A & P." (read by Allegra Goodman) - Free MP3

Updike, John - "The City" (read by John Updike) - Free Stream

Updike, John - "The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd" - YouTube

Updike, John - "Twin Beds in Rome" - Free Stream

Verne, Jules - Mysterious Island - Free iTunes

Verne, Jules - The Master of the World - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - "Harrison Bergeron" - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - The Big Trip Up Yonder - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Welcome to the Monkey House (Abridged readings by Vonnegut) - Spotify

Vonnegut, Kurt - "The Drone" - Free Stream

Vonnegut, Kurt - The Soldier's Story (as a radio opera) - Free Stream

Wallace, David Foster - "Good People" - Free Stream

Wallace, David Foster - "The View from Mrs. Thompson's" (read by DFW) - Free MP3

Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisit, Abridged (read by Sir John Gielgud) - Stream

Welles, Orson - "The Shadow" radio drama (Performed by Welles) - Free MP3

Wells, HG - Magic Shop - Free Stream

Wells, HG - Time Machine (narrated by Kelsey Grammer) - Free iTunes

Wells, HG - Time Machine (dramatized version) - Spotify

Wells, HG - The War of the Worlds (Famous 1938 radio adaptation by Orson Welles) - Stream

Wells, HG - The War of the Worlds (Read by Maxwell Caulfield) - Spotify

Welty, Eudora - "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" (read by Joyce Carol Oates) - MP3

Welty, Eudora - "Why I Live at the P.O." - YouTube

Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence - Free iTunes

Wilde, Oscar - The Happy Prince - Free MP3

Version read by Stephen Fry - YouTube

Version read by Orson Welles and Bing Crosby - YouTube

Wilde, Oscar - The Importance of Being Earnest (Performed by John Gielgud) - Free

Wolff, Tobias - "Bullet in the Brain" (read by T. Coraghessan Boyle) (MP3)

Wolff, Tobias - "The Night in Question" (read by Akhil Sharma) (MP3)

Woolf, Virginia - "The Searchlight" - Free MP3

Woolf, Virginia - The Voyage Out - Free Stream

Woolf, Virginia - The Short Stories - Spotify

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How does popular culture engage history? In this lesson plan, students will examine The Searchers, one of the most widely acclaimed Western movies of all time, to explore interpretations of race, gender, and family-both in the time period depicted by the film and the time period in which the film was produced.

This lesson plan uses A. A. Lamb's painting Emancipation Proclamation and resources from BlackPast to explore the successes and shortcomings of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Reconstruction amendments, as well as the roles played by Black people in securing their own freedom.

Use Aaron Douglas's mural Into Bondage to introduce the stories of famous Harlem Renaissance figures, including Langston Hughes, and to explore the history and importance of Juneteenth, a holiday celebrating the end of Black enslavement in the United States.

Kerry James Marshall's painting Voyager, depicting two partially obscured Black figures standing aboard a ship, refers to an actual ship, Wanderer, which was among the last slave ships in the United States, illegally transporting more than 400 individuals from West Africa to Georgia in 1858-even though the importation of enslaved people had been banned in 1808. Use the painting as an entry point to discuss the Transatlantic slave trade and introduce students to the NEH-funded database Slave Voyages project.

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How does popular culture engage history? In this lesson plan, students will examine The Searchers, one of the most widely acclaimed Western movies of all time, to explore interpretations of race, gender, and family-both in the time period depicted by the film and the time period in which the film was produced.

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Free high-resolution images from the collection that make great conversation starters

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A few weeks ago we released an updated version of Collections Online, making images bigger, search results clearer, and easier to use regardless of what device you are using. Today we are extremely happy to let you know about our latest development; over 30,000 images downloadable, for free, in the highest resolution we have them. You can search for and download them at Collections Online.

Over 14,000 images are available under a Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-ND. If you aren't familiar with Creative Commons it can look a little complicated, but what it means is you can use those images if attribute the image (we help you do that at each download page). You can't make money from using the image, and you can't change the image. Might sound a little restrictive but there is plenty you can still do, like use it in your homework, on your blog, print it and hang it on your wall...

But even better are the 17,000 images that downloadable for any use, any use at all. These images have no known copyright restrictions. Again it would be good if you attributed the original maker of the work, and link to the page on Collections Online so others can find it, but that isn't mandatory.

We've made these images available under these licences for quite a while now, but it hasn't been easy to download high resolution copies of them up to this point. This new development fixes that. You can search through the collections for reusable images by ticking "with downloadable images" on the search box. Then just look for the Download button beneath the images. We hope that by making these images available for reuse, we are empowering people to use images of the collection in teaching and learning, research, innovation and new forms of creativity. There are similar initiatives in the USA (Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County of Art, and Yale University to name a few); and Europe (the Rijksmuseum, British Library, British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum). And recently the National Library of New Zealand also announced an Open Access Policy.

We have a large, diverse collection from many sources, covering a large range of subject areas. We can only make images available for items that are out of copyright, or where Te Papa owns the copyright. We've done a lot of work on researching copyright but we're still working on through the collection so expect more to be released over time. And of course we need to have digitised the item!

We've been digitising our collection for a while now, and technology has changed over the years. This means some of our images are super high resolution, others, which may have been done a few years ago with old technology, maybe aren't so big. But we thought we'd still make them downloadable in the meantime anyway, so you can use them. We'll keep working through our collections digitising new items, and sometimes making better images to replace some of the smaller scans. If you do download images from the collections, we'd be really interested to know how you are using them. Maybe leave a comment here, or tweet us at @TePapaColonline, we are really interested to see what creative things you do with the images, or how they are helping you with research, homework, or brightening up your room. Start searching and downloading at Collections Online.

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Phrases that Shakespeare popularised

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BBC Learning English - Course: shakespeare / Unit 1

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and avoid common mistakes

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Kansas City Star, "Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty Helps America Speak and Write Better" September, 2007

"Helpful. Smart. Funny. Fans find Grammar Girl to be all those things."

Chicago Tribune, Don't Get Carried Away on National Grammar Day, February 2008

"A more level-headed grammatical authority is Mignon Fogarty -- known to her Web visitors and podcast listeners as Grammar Girl."

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Mignon Fogarty is the founder of the Quick and Dirty Tips network and creator of Grammar Girl, which has been named one of Writer's Digest's 101 best websites for writers multiple times. She is also an inductee in the Podcasting Hall of Fame.

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Great lesson plans around films, too