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Subscribe to Andrew Dunn's postsWomen’s rights in Ireland 1880-1920
Virtual Tour: Bonnets, Bandoliers and Ballot Papers The National Museum of Ireland have created this online exhibition tour focussing on the campaign for women’s rights in Ireland 1880s-1920s.
UN sanctions
UN Sanctions AppFrom the Global Governance Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. The app maps all UN sanctions and where they are applied, including their impact on humanitarian action and local communities. The website provides information on frequency of updates and coverage and includes guides to types of sanctions.
Lesbians Talk series now digitised
A influential collection of 7 pamphlets from feminist non-fiction publishers Scarlet Press, which were published between 1992 and 1996, are now available online via the Bishopsgate institute. They provide a fascinating insight into the concerns and viewpoints of the Lesbian community at the time. Topics covered include: HIV, transgender activism and the experiences of black […]
African Rainbow stories
West Yorkshire Queer Stories has collected stories about LGBTIQ+ life, in the North of England. They include an African Rainbow collection The WYQS group is “a non-profit charitable organisation that supports lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender intersexual and queer (LGBTIQ) people of African heritage and the wider Black Asian Minority Ethnic groups”. You can access the […]
Ecofeminism, Canada
Clayoquot Lives: an ecofeminist story. An online archive of materials related to the 1993 Peace Camp in Clayoquot Sound, Canada. This was set up by activists to protest against rainforest logging. The site includes oral histories, photographs and papers from those involved.Niamh Moore co wrote an academic journal article on the ethics of creating the digital […]
Congressional Directories, 19th and 20th centuries
Congressional Directory from the 19th and 20th centuries. Are being digitised by USA GPO. The first release includes Directories from 1869–1888, as well as 1993. Each directory contains lists of parliamentary officials, biographies of members and details on their committee membership.
State corruption
Explore the 2022 Transparency International Index. The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories around the world by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. The methodology is provided and there are indexes from the early 1990s onwards.
Index of African Governance
The 2022 Ibrahim Index of African Governance has just been published. It provides a biennial statistical assessment of the quality of governance in a large number of African countries. It covers security, rule of law, participation, equality and more. The reports provides details of the methodology and the ability to compare the scores over a longer period of […]
Disability history resource list
For UK Disability History Month (mid-November to mid-December) the BBIH provided a free list of over 450 key titles covering all aspects of disability. There are links to open access full text versions where these are available. They include articles, books and chapters. For more details see: for disability History month they have provided […]
BAME communities of Wales
Revealing the Lived Experience of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic People in Wales has been produced by Melian Dialogue for the Archives and Records Council Wales and funded by the Welsh Government. It aims to raise awareness of and increase access to cultural collections for people within Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. The first […]
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