UAL Digital Collections
UAL’s digital collections include art works made by students, staff and alumni, and the history of UAL. Collections also include:
Working Class History Map
Map of stories of collective struggles against capital and oppression. Covers stories from around the world. Includes a podcast with more information on individual stories.
AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions
Non profit Association specialising in women artists. Its primary ambition is to rewrite the history of art on an equal footing, placing women on the same level as men and making their…
Gresham College
Gresham College, founded in 1597, provides free educational videos and lectures at university level. An extensive online collection of their talks is available for free, including more than 3,000 videos, featuring over 1,200 speakers dissecting hundreds of topicai
National Theatre Archive
Holds all the UK National Theatre creative, technical and business records. It covers the movement to found the theatre and documents every production from opening night in 1963 to the present day. From props to prompt scripts,…
The Museum of British Colonialism
Network and platform for conversations about British colonialism and its legacies. Events, discussion and projects to publish suppressed and marginalised histories. No physical collection: the Museum instead creates, shares, and holds digital resources that highlight…
Rabbits Road Institute Library
Community collection of over 200 books, organised into: People & Place The Future Making it Happen. The library contains fiction, non fiction and poetry, on subjects ranging from placemaking to science fiction, immigration to regeneration, British…
Four Corners Archive
Film and photographic archive of Four Corners, Half Moon Photography Workshop, and Camerawork Magazine, from 1972–1987. The work of these organisations significantly developed radical film and photographic practice in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Open City
Aiming to make London and its architecture more open, accessible and equitable. Open City engage people in architecture and city making. Programmes include Open House Festival and education projects.
Digital Archive of Artists’ Publishing
Interactive, user driven, searchable database of artists’ books and publications.
An Uncomfortable Library
Selection of books, websites, and resources relating to museums, race, identity and curation. Selected by Alice Procter, historian of material culture, heritage tour guide and curator under the umbrella of The Exhibitionist.
Anti-Raids Network immigration raids data
Data and mapping on immigration raids compiled by the Anti Raids Network, made up of groups and individuals building resistance to immigration raids since 2012. Data analyses immigration raids in London by postcode area and…
Uncomfortable Oxford
Academic led organisation raising awareness about the ‘uncomfortable’ aspects of history. They conduct walking tours of Oxford and Cambridge, panel discussions and events to provoke discussion about racial inequality, gender and class discrimination, and legacies of empire.
The Creative Climate Justice Hub
Library of climate resources for artists and cultural practitioners who want to understand the systemic causes of the climate crisis. Contains resources that explore how climate justice intersects with social, economic and environmental injustice, and…
Backdoor Broadcasting Company
Audio recordings of selected academic talks, covering a wide range of subjects, from 2008 2021.
Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire
Detailed information on over 6,000 films showing images of life in the British colonies. Over 150 films are available for viewing online. Find films by country, date, topic, or keyword. Over 350…
Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery
Database containing the identity of all slave owners in the British colonies at the time slavery ended, and all the estates in the British Caribbean colonies. Building on two earlier…
Flat Time House
Former studio home of artist John Latham (1921 2006). Gallery and centre for alternative learning, the John Latham archive, and an artist’s residency space.