Visual Culture

• Bloomsbury Cultural History 

Themes covered include: childhood and family, objects, food, disability, the body, the home, women, dress and fashion, theatre, animals, the sea, work, leisure and consumption etc. Each theme goes from antiquity through to the 21st century giving you a vast selection of online chapters to access. You can search by time or place as well as by theme.

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• Bloomsbury Visual Arts 

An ebook collection covering animation, game development, fashion & textiles, design & illustration, photography, architecture & interiors and more. Explore key topics as well as search and browse books.  Additional features include an interactive world map of architecture, time-line and images of key buildings and museum objects.

• Ebook Central 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Contains full text books in many subject areas.

• Guggenheim Museum Archive 

Over 200 digital books published by the Guggenheim Museum.

• Historical Texts 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

The full text of thousands of books published in Britain from 1475 to 1900. This collection comprises Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), plus nineteenth century books from the British Library collection.

• Screen Studies 

A useful research resource for anyone studying the moving image; this platform contains ebooks, screenplays and a history of cinema timeline.