Celebrating LGBT History month
February is LGBT History month http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/ Take a look at the Gay t-Shirt archive! Wearing Gay History a digital archive of American LGBT t-shirts. created by Doctoral student Eric Gonzaba who digitized the entire t-shirt collection of the Chris Gonzalez Library and Archives in Indiana T-shirts have been used to express gay identity, politics and pride […]
Digital Fan Magazine Collection (1911-1963)
Free access to the full text of a growing number of popular magazines produced for film fans in the mid 20th century via the Media History Digital Library. A great resource for American cinema, popular culture and social historians. They include Silver Screen (1930-1940) and Motion Picture [Magazine] (1914-1941). Read this example of Hollywood magazine […]
Nashriyah: digital Iranian historic newspapers
The University of Manchester now provides free access to a digital library of Iranian newspapers. These comprise 23 newspapers covering the period from the 1950s to the early 21st Century and thus covering key political events such as the Iranian revolution of 1979. The complete list of titles can be found on the project website […]
Google and tax
The charity Full Fact has examined the claim that Google only pays 3% of its profits in tax. Consult its website to see what it concludes.
Historic photographs: the changing workplace
As part of a new exhibition, the Bank of England Archive has released some of its historic photographs online. Some fascinating examples on the BBC website show the changing workplace. There is also a free Flickr site
New York Public Library Digital Collections enhanced access
From January 2016 the New York Public library provides enhanced public domain access to its online collections which include thousands of stunning historical images. See this announcing blog post which has lists of possible uses: these include usage of bulk API data. A great example is this 5th Avenue now and then which compares 1911 […]
Parents, teens and digital monitoring
Find out what percentage of American parents surveyed checked their teenagers Facebook accounts, texts and emails in this enlightening new study from Pew Internet Research Centre . The EU Kids online research network website contains a wealth of reports and data on children’s internet use. View its 2014 report . The Berkman Digital Literacy Platform provides free […]
Political TV Ad Archive
Political TV Ad Archive Just launched by the Internet Archive to provide a resource for the 2016 US elections. This fabulous free online digital library resource where reporters can find political TV ads from key primary states in the 2016 elections. Each ad has its own page with metadata files that can be downloaded by […]
World Internet Report 2015
The Center for the Digital Future has issued the latest annual edition of the World Internet Project Report. 20 nations are covered: Australia, Bahrain, Chile, China, Egypt, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, New Zealand, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay. Findings cover 10 broad […]
Charlie Hebdo attacks: first anniversary
Twitter coverage of the anniversary The University of Oxford has translated and made free on the Internet a book on tolerance. With extracts from key French philosophers and writers. The original text was La Société Française d’Etude du Dix-Huitième Siècle (ed.), Tolerance: le combat des Lumières (Paris: SFEDS, 2015). Contents include: The Declaration of the […]
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