This website was created by the Liberating Histories research team which is supported by Northumbria University, Arts and Humanities Research Council, The LSE Women’s Library & Western University Canada. It documents the history, nature and importance of magazines to the women’s liberation movement and feminism from 1960s/80s. The site also includes magazine guides, oral histories and […]
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Museum Data Service
Museum Data Service is a cross-sector catalogue which aims to provide access to over 100 million records from 1,750 UK museums. It launched on 12th September 2024 with an initial collection of 3,129,798 records from 21 museums. A further 1,951,719 records are already in the pipeline. The platform was set up thanks to start-up funding […]
Re-presenting the People
A practice based investigation into the hidden history of the Portsmouth Suffragists’ campaign for equal rights, explored through the lens of visual communication design. This project is funded by the University of Portsmouth Heritage Hub in partnership with the Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery and the Portsmouth History Centre.The site has been created by Sarah Houghton, PhD […]
The Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ) Database
An online resource showcasing research of scholars from under-represented backgrounds taking non-mainstream approaches to economics. It contains reading lists and a searchable database of scholars.
Courthauld Gallery Witt Library
The Witt is an extensive collection comprising thousands of reproductions, and cuttings of paintings, drawings, and engravings of Western Art from 1200 to 2009. currently in progress is a digitisation project The first stage of the British school is now being made available. Users can search or browse by keyword or artist. Records have description and […]
Picturing Lincoln
The Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has digitised more than 1,000 images of the American president. They cover his home life, his time in office and his assassination.
The Glasgow Society of Lady Artists
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.
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.
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