Sites of Feminist Memory: A Map of Memorials to the Women’s Suffrage Movement
This site was created by citizen science which aims to geolocate on a visual map key sites to feminist memorials worldwide. Key figures involved in the project include Marc Calvini-Lefebvre who curates the blog Sites of feminist Memory: Women & the F-Word. https://doi.org/10.58079/vagc.The site is mapping memorials statues, commemorative plaques and buildings. Entries are being […]
Irish in Britain exhibition
Created by London Metropolitan Archives, an online exhibition and oral history of Irish migration to Britain since the 1970s. It includes this YouTube introduction: Irish in Britain https://youtu.be/X9WCWLUaF9Q?si=w3HFwgV350cDm0Bp
Digital Art History Directory
Digital Art History Directory.Recently launched by the Art Libraries Society of North America, a free resource which aims to provide a single platform to examples of digital art history websites as well as case studies on their organisation and implementation. It has a directory of open images and open data websites.
Secrets of the Museum
The BBC recently repeated the 2021 series of Secrets of the Museum, a behind-the-scenes look at the work of the conservators and curators at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. You can watch all 6 episode on this Box of Broadcasts playlist. There is also a playlist of the 2022 series.
The Children’s Art Gallery
The Children’s Art Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria, displays and sells art by children from low-income families. Other galleries have recently opened in Ghana and Zimbabwe. Read also a recent Guardian article about the gallery.
Women’s history month: Europeana online exhibitions
Europeana online exhibitions and blogs covering women’s history themes. The essays feature images of material items from Europe’s national libraries. They include national collections and biographies of individuals such as Josephine Baker, Charlotte Bronte, Miriam Makeba and Queen Elizabeth II.
Photography of the Ukraine war (contains disturbing images)
Capturing Struggle: Ukraine Through American and Ukrainian LensesFrom University of Berkeley, an exhibition documenting the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. It features powerful and often disturbing images captured by American and Ukrainian photojournalists. There are also maps and recommendations of further reading from the Library collections
The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook
The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook is a free project co-sponsored by the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) and the National Council on Public History (NCPH).It provides practical US case studies on how to present exhibitions of archive and museum collections in a way that makes it relevant to the public. It emphasises EDI and […]
New issue of Museum and Society
Museum and Society have published a new issue on our journal platform. Highlights include: All are open access here: https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/issue/view/232
Leadership in the Arts and cultural industries
Clore leadership library This online Research Library is a collated repository, making publicly available the research projects completed by Clore Leadership Fellows. These receive funding to pursue research related to creative leadership in the arts, culture, and creative sectors. There are over 80 examples of innovative practice including case studies. Examples of topics covered include:
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