Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945
From Project MUSE, in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, volumes I-IV are now fully searchable, open-access, digital publications. They include facts, figures and maps of the genocide.
Stolen Relations
A digital repository about enslaved indigenous people from Brown University. Includes a collection of historical primers on Indigenous slavery in the Americas, timelines, maps and documents. Also covers indentured labour.
In Safe Hands: The Battle for Midwifery
This digital exhibition from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh explores the story of midwifery and obstetrics through the centuries, with particular emphasis on the increasing medicalisation of childbirth. It includes images of medical objects and texts.
Women’s Grassroots Activism Podcast Series
An academic series funded by the United Kingdom Research Innovation and the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the grant awarded for Agency and Advocacy: Locating Women’s Grassroots Activism in England and Ireland, 1918 to the present. It focuses on experiences in Ireland with oral history accounts of ways in which members of the […]
Black Social Worker Oral History Project
This project is led by staff at Coventry University’s Centre for Peace and Security. It has collected materials relating to 19 Black social workers who have worked with and supported vulnerable children in care since the 1970s. The website includes their oral history accounts and a timeline of key policies relating to race and social […]
Soldier magazine archive online
80-year archive of the British Army’s in-house magazine, Soldier, has been digitised and is now available online for free. It covers the period 1945 onwards and includes news stories, letters from army personnel, and original adverts. This edition from 1949 has examples of adverts, accounts of postings in Singapore. NOTE: outdated and unacceptable language and […]
Digital South Caucasus Collection
A collaboration between the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World library NYU and institutions in the South Caucasus. The DSCC is a collection in the Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL). It aims to link to high quality online resources covering archaeology and ancient history. It is currently digitising resources from Georgia in languages of […]
Kickass women of History podcast
A podcast which aims to share stories of inspiring women in the past. The website states that it intends to focus particularly on stories of women not usually represented in the media, including women of colour, women with disabilities, working class and LGBTQIA women. Organised by Emma Cook and Amy Cotterill. Available via major podcast sites. […]
Women’s history
Europeana has themed galleries relating to women’s history month. These highlight resources (text, images and online essays) relating to women’s history taken from Europe’s leading national libraries and museums. They are very good at highlighting resources from outside the UK.
Budgets: historic documents
In light of the spring statement here are some examples of documents from the LSE Digital Library: The resource lets you search the page for budget and zoom to see it highlighted in context.
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