Arts and music reference and research help
BFI Replay
It is the result of one of the UK’s largest mass digitisation programmes and includes stories from across the UK, its history and its people. The platform provides access to thousands of digitised videos and TV programmes from the collection of the BFI (British Film Institute) and regional archives, covering 60 years of film.
Free access to BFI Replay is restricted to library computers. Contact Ask a Kent Librarian for more information.
BFI Screenonline
BFI Screenonline is the "definitive guide to Britain's film and TV history". You can view thousands of stills, publicity materials, synopses, specially written analyses and biographies. Clips of TV programmes and films can only be viewed from public library computers.
Visit the Screenonline website.
Free Websites
Boosey & Hawkes Online Scores
This online catalogue offers free viewing of over 400 contemporary orchestral, opera, and large ensemble scores by modern composers such as Bartók, Bernstein, Britten, Copland, Stravinsky, Kael Jenkins and Steve Reich. All that is required to view scores online is to complete the free online registration form.
Visit the Boosey & Hawkes Online Scores website.
British Cartoon Archive
A unique online database containing details of the main cartoon collections held in the archive, located at the University of Kent in Canterbury. Cartoons can be found by cartoonist, publication, date, name or subject. The computer displays the cartoon's image and the cataloguing details.
Visit the British Cartoon Archive website.
Dickens Journals Online
An open access online resource which launched in 2012 as part of the Dickens Bicentenary celebrations. Offers digitised and indexed content to many of the journals Dickens edited or published.
Visit the Dickens Journals Online website.
Europeana
Explore over 58 million artworks, photographs, artefacts, books, films, newsreels, broadcasts and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
VADS (Visual Arts Data Service)
VADS is the online resource for visual arts. It has provided services to the academic community for 20 years and has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK.