Andrew Dunn
Subscribe to Andrew Dunn's postsAdvertisements from Exponent women’s newspaper
A historic database of advertisements from Woman’s Exponent newspaper from 1872-1914, made available free online from Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library and Utah Digital Newspapers. It is possible to browse by date or industry. Includes many contemporary ads targeted at a female audience including clothes, fashion, education, and travel.
Visualizing the Virus
An international digital project led by Dr Sria Chatterjee and made possible by a grant from DARIAH EU and support from the Institute of Experimental Design and Media, FHNW. Princeton Center for Digital Humanities is a project partner. It is interdisciplinary and seeks to curate visualisations which spotlight on inequality. Topics include: how Covid policies effect […]
Robert MacFarlane
Robert Macfarlane, scientist and writer, has been on Desert Island Discs. Members of the university can hear him on BoB Members of the David Wilson Library can also borrow Robert’s books
Global Cybersecurity Index 2020
The latest annual ranking from the ITU measures national countries legal measures (e.g. data protection), cybersecurity infrastructure, online child protection measures and cooperation with international measures.
Lesbian Herstory Archives
Lesbian Herstory Archives: https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org/ “The Lesbian Herstory Archives exists to gather, preserve and provide access to records of Lesbian lives and activities. Doing this also serves to uncover and document our herstory previously denied to us by patriarchal historians in the interests of the culture that they served. The existence of the Archives will thus […]
LGBTQ Video Game Archive
LGBTQ Video Game Archive: https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/ Catalogue of LGBTQ video games since the 1980s. Of relevance to creative computing.
Digital Library of the Caribbean
Digital Library of the Caribbean: https://www.dloc.com/ – “a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean.” An extensive collection of primary source material contributed by a range of partner institutions. Topics covered include Economics, Politics, Race, Class, Gender, Religion, Language, Literature, Slavery and resistance and Culture.
Sites for Pride Month
Europeana LGBT Plus now has a page of great historic LGBT resources from Europe’s national and libraries and museums. Includes images from the history of pride, art work, badge ephemera, books and. Archives from a range of EU nations British library resources National Archives research guide to UK resources . They also have some podcasts highlighting resources Bishopsgate Institute LGBT archives includes News […]
Human Rights: TikTok
The United Nations has launched a Human Rights TikTok account: https://www.tiktok.com/@unitednationshumanrights?
Don’t Look Away: No place for exclusion of LGBTI students (UNESCO)
International LGBTQI Youth and Student Organisation (IGLYO) and UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report released findings from research and surveys on the situation of LGBTQI students across the world showing widespread evidence of homophobia and transphobia. Worryingly, 54% percent of LGBTQI people have experienced bullying in school at least once based on their sexual orientation, according to […]
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