Music, Writing and Performance

​​Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an online streaming service available to UEL students and staff based in the UK. Content dates back as far as 2007, with a wide range of TV and radio channels available.

On campus: Access from any PC within the University network.
On campus: Access from any PC within the University network.
Off campus: Enter East London in "Find your organisation" field, then select University of East London, then enter your UEL email address and your network password

Digital Theatre+ contains a broad range of theatre and drama productions,video and written resources for the study and teaching of drama and theatre performance. There are interviews of renowned directors and practitioners. Off and On Campus, login with your UEL email and password

​Drama Online is a digital library of over 2,500 playtexts, 400 audio plays, 300 hours of video and 370 books of criticism and performance practice from leading theatre publishers and companies.​​

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National Theatre Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality archive recordings never previously seen outside of the NT’s Archive, the National Theatre Collections 1 and 2 are now complete and offer a total of 50 filmed performances

Modern Plays collection includes over 750 plays from many of the UK and Ireland’s preeminent playwrights, as well as exciting new voices. It offers a wide and varied range of award-winning and widely studied plays, and is continually updated with new works fresh from leading theatres.

A database offering full text for nearly 5,990 scholarly journals. It covers virtually every area of academic study offering full text information dating as far back as 1985.

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Provides scholarly articles over a variety of arts related areas, many of the full text. Older material is included.

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Kanopy provides access to one of the most unique collections of films in the world – including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases – on every topic imaginable.

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The Humanities Collection is a collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals designed for institutions acquiring extensively in the humanities. This collection provides a highly relevant set of research journals for art schools, museums, performing arts organizations, film schools, and related institutions. Of the new titles added to MUSE each year, the best of those with a clear humanities focus are added to the Humanities Collection.

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ARTbibliographies Modern:
​Abstracts of the current literature of modern art, photography and design. Coverage includes abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, dissertations, exhibition catalogues and reviews.
​Arts and Humanities:
​Around 500 full-text journals are available from the ProQuest Arts and Humanities database. Subject coverage includes Architecture, Interior Design, Urban Planning, Arts and Cultural Studies.
Design and Applied Arts Index:
​Design and Applied Arts Index gives access to over 110,000 annotated references from more than 450 design and craft journals. Coverage dates from 1973 onwards.
International Bibliography of Art:
​Abstracts on a wide range of scholarly literature relating to Western Art.
Vogue Archive:
​A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, dating back to 1892 and reproduced with high-resolution colour images.

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Sage Research Methods is an online research tool linking to over 100,000 books, journal articles and reference works. As well as offering a great deal of content, Sage Research Methods is extremely searchable, and results can be customised quickly using the interactive menus.

Its main focus is on methodology, making content especially relevant to researchers in the health sciences and social sciences

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The Taylor & Francis website provides access to journal articles, and covers subjects such as Arts and Communication Studies.

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List of resources on black theatre available in the Library catalogue

A collection of documentaries on race and decolonising

A collection of documentaries on the topic of decolonising.

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.