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‘Wayzgoose’ is a term formerly used in the UK to describe the annual social outings organised by unions and management in the publishing and printing trades. These form a long tradition dating back to the earliest days of printing and the forms of work and social organisation that characterised it. The Wayzgoose was a major fixture in the working calendar of staff of Scottish publishing and printing firms.

The 'Wayzgoose: A Social History of Printers' Outings in the 20th Century Scotland' project investigated the form that this phenomena took, different methods of funding the wayzgoose, how the wayzgoose was advertised within firms and the importance impact this annual event had on the lives of the people that participated in the annual trip or wayzgoose

The project utilised oral and ephemeral material to investigate and document the Wayzgoose as a social and work-related phenomenon.

The BBC archive holds the collective output from the various strands of the BBC including radio and TV programmes, documents and photographs from as far back as the 1930s.

Collections in the archive include:

• Art & Artists
• Books & Writers
• Broadcasting & Performing Arts
• Business, Finance & Industry
• Cultural Heritage
• Events
• Family & Lifestyle
• Health & Wellbeing
• Locations - UK
• Nature & Environment
• Politics & Government
• Politics & Government - Non-UK
• Science & Technology
• Society & Welfare
• Sports
• Transport & Travel
• War & Conflict

Contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day, reproduced in high-resolution colour page images. More than 400,000 pages are included. Vogue is a unique record of international popular culture that extends beyond fashion. The Vogue Archive is an essential primary source for the study of fashion, gender and modern social history.

An online encyclopaedia of British film and television featuring film and television clips from the BFI National Archive, and interviews with film and TV personalities. Clips are supplemented by rich and authoritative contextual material specially commissioned for BFI Screenonline alongside thousands of stills, posters and press books.

The National Portrait Gallery was founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British men and women. More than fifty thousand images of the National Portrait Gallery's Collections are available for academic use. Low resolution images are available to copy and distribute via a Creative Commons licence and higher resolution ones via a more restrictive Academic Licence. Look at specific pictures' "Use this image" information.

Mass Observation Online offers revolutionary access to one of the most important archives for the study of Social History in the modern era. This digital project is a multi-facteted resource, offering integrated access to the new online material, existing microfilm series, and the Mass-Observation Archive itself, allowing the user options to search across the entire Archive or by material available digitally.

Mass Observation was a pioneering social research organisation whose papers provide insights into the cultural and social history of Britain from 1937 to 1965. The material at the Mass Observation Archive, and now on Mass Observation Online, offers an unparalled insight into everyday life in the 1930s and 1940s. This publication opens up a host of essay and project possibilities on topics such as abortion, old age, crime, eating habits, shopping, fashion, dance, popular music, sex, sport, reading, ethnic minorities, and the decline of Empire.  The material is especially rich on life in Britain during the Second World War.

The Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) Photography Collection consists of nearly 20,000 high-quality digital images, the majority of which are photographs of Edinburgh College of Art students' work from 1999-2010. The collection also includes internal and external views of the College buildings, photographs of College events, reproductions of items from the College Archive and general views of Edinburgh.

The Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) Library Image Collection is a database of over 6,000 high-quality images, selected to support study and teaching at Edinburgh College of Art. The subject areas covered include Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Art and Design, including contemporary practice.

This service provides access to digitised recordings of some of the Sound Archives' collections. Archival Sound Recordings is the result of a development project to increase access to the British Library Sound Archive's extensive collections.

British Library Sounds presents 50,000 recordings and their associated documentation from the Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.

The "Empire and Civil Society in 20th Century Scotland: Imperial Decline and National Identity, 1918-1970" was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and provides access to the contemporary views of key sectors of Scottish society on Scotland's imperial role and its displacement as a dominant representation of national identity between 1918 and 1970. The dataset provides access to 26 oral history interviews that were conducted with 28 participants, broadly belonging to two groups: former missionaries and others who were connected to the Church of Scotland, and activists in labour movement organisations, non-government organisations, and race equality organisations.