The Prado Museum’s new Digital Library
…provides free access to a searchable catalogue of full text books and journals covering art history published from the late 15th to the early 20th century. There are sections on key artists such as Goya and Raphael and many prints from rare books. Some text is in Spanish only.
COVID-19 American History Project guide
American Folklife Center have produced a guide to materials they have collected about experiences of COVID 19. It is available via the Library of Congress and it provides links to COVID-19 collections within the Library of Congress and to online collections outside of the Library.Materials include a selection of online photographs and images and oral […]
Photographs of the Medical Survey of the Bituminous Coal Industry 1946 (US)
New from the USA National Archives thousands of photographs of mining industry and regions taken in USA in 1946 as part of a survey of conditionsIn 1946 the Department of Interior and the United Mine Workers agreed to a joint survey of medical, health and housing conditions in coal communities to be conducted by Navy […]
Gender pay gap
20th November 2024 is equal pay day, the day on which it is calculated that British women stop being paid compared to men so effectively there is a gap of over 5 weeks wages between male and female pay. The Fawcett society published a report with data which found that almost two-thirds of the gender pay gap would […]
Disability and employment
Trade Board records can give us a rare glimpse into the experiences and treatment of individual workers with disabilities or chronic illness in the early 20th century. The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick has an online collection Also this Social History Society blog post from a few years ago by Andy Holroyde, University of […]
Booker Prize winner 2024
Congratulations to Samantha Harvey on winning the Booker Prize with Orbital. Find it in the library Reading Lounge (Ground floor) at 823.92 HAR.
Mary Middleton
On campaign. This page from English Heritage by historians Andrew Roberts and Lisa Berry-Waite recounts the life of one of the early women political campaigners, Mary Middleton, who sought to be elected in 1924. Her story reveals how the pre-war period and the First World War created new opportunities for women politicians but also the […]
Local skills shortages data tool
The Office for National Statistics has released an interactive tool allowing the user to look at demand for specific job roles in a local area and examine whether census and workforce data indicates a suitably skilled workforce is available there. The tool is underpinned by job advert data and calculated demand data. Full methodology is provided on […]
Violation Tracker Global
A new website created by the U.S. non-governmental organization Good Jobs First, Violation Tracker Global documents a wide range of misconduct by multinational corporations in their operations around the world. These are grouped into broad categories including: Competition/Antitrust, Consumer Protection, Employment, Environment, Financial, Government Contracting, Healthcare, and Safety. It is possible to search by company […]
Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
JSTOR, the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP), and Libreria Garcia Cambeiro have released 100 Open Access titles from the highly respected Argentine publisher, Prometeo Editorial. These cover a range of topics and were published mainly from 2020 onwards.
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