‘An ordinary life’: The King’s Fund’s work on services for disabled people
An online exhibition created by the Kings Fund Library for disability history month. The source explores aspects of the organisation’s work with and for disabled people. This covers physical and mental health issues, welfare, medical design accessibility and social rights. Links are provided to images, full text reports and catalogue entries. Note that some language […]
English Social Mobility Index 2024
The annual Index is published by the Higher Education Policy Institute and compiled by London South Bank University. It measures the social mobility of graduates from individual universities. This year the top places go to: University of Bradford Aston University University of Wolverhampton Methodology based on access continuation and outcomes is provided.
Women’s History Advent Calendar
Starting on 1st December, a window to open every day till Christmas https://calendar.myadvent.net/?id=nt1kee5497mdo9efkzij7kqyil69xnum to learn about women’s history.
Gender pay gap
20th November 2024 is equal pay day, the day on which it is calculated that British women stop being paid compared to men so effectively there is a gap of over 5 weeks wages between male and female pay. The Fawcett society published a report with data which found that almost two-thirds of the gender pay gap would […]
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 […]
Mr Loverman
Playlist of an 8-part series which has just recently been broadcast on BBC1. The series is based on the book of the same name by Bernadine Evaristo which we have in the Reading Lounge at 823.92 EVA.
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:
The Black Frontline
This project has conducted 300 oral histories with Black doctors and nurses in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ghana. The UK section forms part of a broader project collecting memories of testimonies of Black healthcare workers in the UK. All contributions are anonymised.
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).
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