Translation and Interpreting Studies

High quality bilingual dictionaries in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

Provides definitions of words in English and the development of their use.

Film adaptations of classic and contemporary plays.

Thousands of independent films from the UK and around the world.

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Enables staff and students to record and watch freeview broadcasts, create clips from new and archived TV and radio broadcasts, and embed them into Blackboard/ presentations. Please note: it can only be accessed in the UK. It is each user’s responsibility to ensure that the materials made available are used strictly within the terms and conditions of the licence.

Movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films and educational videos.

Films from the communist world. Spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, Britain and Cuba.

Access to millions of pages of primary source collections, spanning content from the 15th-21st centuries.

Access to rare primary source documents topically focused into digital collections covering US foreign policy, civil rights, global affairs, colonial studies, British history, Holocaust studies, LGBT studies, Latin America and Caribbean studies, Middle East studies, political science, religious studies, and women’s studies.

Manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. The materials span the last five centuries.

Thousands of full text literary works as well as rare primary source content from the vaults of the world's great libraries. Cross-search or browse the contents of over 1700 titles including: Encyclopaedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources covering all subjects.