Missing Migrants Project
The Missing Migrants Project from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) documents reported cases of deaths or missing people in international migration since 2014. Causes include inadequate search and rescue operations, harsh conditions during journeys, lack of health care, and violence at and around international borders. It includes accounts of specific cases, voices of families as well […]
For South Asian Heritage Month
CrossAsia Portal The portal has been set up by the Specialised Information Service Asia (Fachinformationsdienst Asien) at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Includes library catalogues and open access repositories including Asian language materials. Some full text is for subscribers only. British Library’s Voices of Partition Recordings from the British Library Sound Archive and archival material about the […]
South African Governmental Publications collection
South African Governmental Publications collection is now available on the LSE Digital Library. It contains government and colonial publications. These are comprised of Population censuses undertaken in the Cape of Good Hope from 1865 until the 1960s. There are also Education Statistics of Cape of Good Hope 1881-1985. The publications were digitised in 2016 as part of the […]
Political violence
ACLED Early Warning Dashboard, a new hub that offers interconnected tools for tracking political violence and demonstrations around the world. It provides a single access point to four previous early warning resources — the Volatility & Risk Predictability Index, Conflict Change Map, Subnational Threat & Surge Trackers, and Emerging Actor Tracker — into a single, easy-to-use platform. Various […]
Refugees from Ukraine
Europe: Survey of Intentions and Perspectives of Refugees from Ukraine 2023The fourth round of the Survey of Intentions and Perspectives of Refugees from Ukraine has concluded, and the report released together with the microdata. This survey series interviews refugees from Ukraine in the Europe region, collecting primary data on their profiles, their current situation and […]
Social mobility: the next generation
First of a series of reports by the Sutton Trust on social mobility. This first report looks at secondary school students and is called Lost Potential at 16.
LGBTQ+ plus heritage on Europeana
LGBTQ+ exhibitions, biographies and images on this cultural site which draws on the collections of national libraries from European nations. As the site puts it “queer stories, narratives and cultural heritage from all around Europe”.
Autograph letter collection, second batch
A second batch of letters from the Autograph Letter Collection totalling 3,200 letters. This collection contains letters of prominent correspondents dating from 1851 to 1975. They cover such themes as suffrage, education, medicine, women and the Church, literature, employment, temperance, scholarship, industry, travel and the arts. Many of these letters were considered ‘Autograph’ letters by famous […]
Windrush at 75
Windrush 75 portal – New from the National Archives, a place to find out about the history and impact of the arrival of the Empire Windrush. 22nd June 2023 marked 75 years since HMT Empire Windrush docked and its passengers, mostly from the Caribbean, disembarked. The site focuses on their history as told through documents from […]
Free access to writings covering South West Asia and North Africa
SAGE is offering free access to journal articles, reference entries and chapters covering South West Asia and North Africa ‘for a limited period’ (period not defined). You can search and download academic interdisciplinary content covering a range of social science topics including politics, law, gender studies and social welfare.
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