There are a few new E-resources trials available from now until November or December, and while not all new trials might be relevant to the modern languages scholar they might still be of interest.  Find out more from the Electronic Resources blog.

Perhaps more relevant is the BFI InView , why not check out the 1924 silent short-film  Cosmopolitan London that shows  an Italian butcher’s shop in Soho,  French bookshop, chemist’s, wine shop and cafe bar,  and even the  Scandinavian Temperance Home, admittedly it contains some dubious expressions, which also shows how much attitudes have changed. For something more topical watch a 1989 After Dark two-parter:  Britain: out on a Limb? a ‘coffee table’ discussion on Britain’s role in Europe.

The videos can be streamed and downloaded 

Remember that if you are logging in off-campus you’ll be ask to use your UCL username and password via Single log on.

Until the end of August we have a 6 weeks access to the Cairn’s General Bouquet Journal collection.

Cairn publishes e-journals,  e-books and reference works  in French, their collections cover Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences subjects such as Linguistics, Arts, Philosophy, Psychology and History.

Although content is in French,  Cairn is looking into the possibility of having articles translated from French into English and to have both versions on their platform; however this function is currently only available for selected articles.

The platform, available in French www.cairn.info and in English www.cairn-int.info,  has been designed to have a clean interface and very easy to use, but you’ll be the judge.

 Let us know what you think of this resource.