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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
NAACP Legal Defense Fund records
A major resource documenting the funding and activities of the NAACP fighting for Black civil rights in 20th Century America. It includes materials relating to key cases including:
Nationality, Identity and Belonging:
An Oral History of the ‘Windrush Generation’ and their Relationship to the British State, 1948-2018 This is an ongoing University of London project which contains interviews that highlight the importance of the Windrush Generation in Higher Education.
Reading’s Windrush Generation
The Memories of the Reading Windrush Generation and the Descendants is a series of oral-history recordings developed by members of Reading’s local Caribbean community and accessible online. The recordings include the memories of Caribbean-born migrants to the UK: Anderson Springer (Barbados), Grace Browne (Barbados), Neville Nelson (Jamaica), Nordia Nelson (Jamaica) and Rod Welsh (Barbados).
Britain at work
The Britain at Work: Voices from the Workplace 1945-1995 project interviewed people from a diverse range of backgrounds about their experience of work including those who are Caribbean-descended, e.g., Lily Crawford (Jamaica), Dermot Davis (Barbados), Glenroy Watson (Caribbean British), Frank Bailey (Guyana), Frank Murray (Guyana) and Sheila Emmanuel (Dominica). For audio and transcripts of the interviews […]
Birmingham Black Oral History Project
The collection includes oral history interviews with 21 people conducted between 1990 and 1992, who originated from the Caribbean, South Asia and covered a range of themes including first impressions, religious experiences, education, experiences of racism, identity, as well as their thoughts on the future.
Making of Black Britain
Making of Black Britain is a non-profit organization collecting stories of the resilience of ordinary people. See:https://themakingofblackbritain.org/ https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-making-black-britain
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