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Exploring menopause through collections A Wellcome webinar/online discussion about how to explore museum collections in ways that are creative.Artist Marge Bradshaw discusses her work on the ‘Whose Menopause?’ project which she worked on with three community groups in Bolton, Greater Manchester. The groups used a range of material from the Wellcome collections to investigate and challenge typical […]
Gertude Bell Archive
Based at Newcastle archive, the Gertrude Bell archive contains over 10,000 items including correspondence, diaries, photographs (albums and negatives as well as loose prints), notebooks, lecture and photographic notes, and memoranda relating to her archaeology and travels in the Middle East. They include annotated images of photos on the peoples of Iraq. Important for the […]
Women, Life, Freedom
Woman, Life, Freedom Movement of Iran web archive aims to preserve web archive snapshots from the Woman, Life, Freedom movement of Iran which emerged in the wake of the 2022 police killing of Mahsa Jîna Amini. Her arrest by the morality police, on alleged grounds of non-compliance with the compulsory Hijab Law, caused mass protest. […]
Black Students Mental Health Project
The Black Students Mental Health Project Good Thinking has partnered with the Black Students Mental Health Project (BSMHP) to host a range of mental wellbeing resources, including blogs, podcasts and videos, which have been created by the black community within London South Bank University (LSBU). Topics include microaggression and intersectional community members.
Banned Books and Academic Freedom
Sage has launched a new collection of free-to-read research of articles from its academic journals highlighting the effects of academic censorship on democracy, social-emotional learning, higher education, and more.Categories in the collection include:
MDB Reform Accelerator
MDB Reform Accelerator Multilateral Development Banks, or MDBs, are supranational institutions set up by sovereign states, which are their shareholders. This website contains contributions from think tanks and NGOs which aims to speed up reform to reduce global poverty by reforming them using evidence-based research.
Connecting Africa
Connecting-Africa is supported by the Netherlands African Studies Association (NVAS). It provides free access to digital resources on Africa. Full-text of publications, images and sound from institutional repositories many based in African nations.
Discover Macpherson
DiscoverMacpherson.com A free, fully-searchable website which has been developed by Professor Brian Cathcart and Kingston University. It gives access to most of the records of the 1998-9 public inquiry into the Stephen Lawrence case including press coverage at the time.
Discover Leveson
The Leveson Inquiry was an inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press. This reource https://discoverleveson.com/ is a fully searchable, online public archive of the wealth of evidence generated by the Leveson Inquiry.
Congressional Directories Back to the 1800s digitised
The US Government Publishing Office (GPO) has aigitized all Congressional Directories back to the 1800s. They are now available via GovInfo and are useful for committee membership lists, biographies of members and more.
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