Searchable resource biographies of members of The Glasgow Society of Lady Artists. This organisation was founded in 1882 by eight women who were some of the first female students at the Glasgow School of Art and gives insight into women artists of the period. The site is a work in progress from Academic scholar Dr Karen Mailley.
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WoolfNotes
WoolfNotes is a major digital humanities project led by King’s College London. It covers Virginia Woolf’s reading and research notes comprising 67 notebooks from the archives of the Monks House Papers in Sussex (UK), the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library, the Beinecke Library at Yale and the Smith College Special Collections. In addition […]
Black History timeline: enslavement, resistance and abolition
Created through a collaboration between Black Cultural Archives and Royal Holloway, University of London this timeline includes chronologies and digitised documents from the BCA and includes enslavement and abolition.
Hub for African Thought
Created at the London School of Economics, the hub aims to showcase African academic authors, offering profiles, reading lists and reviews.
UoL Historian wins double book prize
Clare Anderson, Professor of History and Director of the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies, has won the Social History Society Book Prize 2024 and the Australian Historical Association’s biennial Kay Daniels Award 2024, for her book Convicts: A Global History. You can access the book via the library.
Yoto Carnegie Medals
The winners of the 2024 Yoto Carnegies have been announced. See who won: https://yotocarnegies.co.uk/ The Yoto Carnegies are prizes awarded to children’s books, one for writing and one for illustration. The main medals are awarded by a panel of children’s and youth’s librarians, but the Shadowers’ Award is judged by children. The judges and the […]
AI intersections database
AI intersections database maps intersections between social justice and human rights, documented AI impacts and their manifestations in society. Each section has a brief summary of the resource, contact email and link to the website. Topics covered include human rights, gender justice, environmental justice and racial justice.
Central, Eastern European & Diasporic Feminisms Bibliography
Interactive CEED Feminisms Bibliography Edited by The CEED Feminisms Working Group, this bibliography aims to highlight work from the region to dispel myth. It includes links to articles on a range of countries and thematic topics.
Matteotti documents
A collection relating to the aftermath of the murder of Italian socialist MP Giacomo Matteotti in Rome on 10 June 1924 https://lse-atom.arkivum.net/uklse-dl1lw01006 They include newspapers, committee papers and documents from figures such as Sylvia Pankhurst campaigning against fascism in Italy. Court documents will be added soon.
Lost boys and fairies
Heart-wrenching drama about a gay couple trying to adopt a child in present-day Wales. See all 3 episodes on this BoB playlist. Contains strong language, drug taking and scenes of a sexual nature.
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