The Ukraïnica platform has been created by the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. It aims to create a site to encourage the teaching of Ukrainian history and culture through offering a space for the exchange of syllabi and course materials. Users can browse time periods and subject areas and get some suggested reading lists. These […]
Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog
Kit de Waal
Our own writer in residence reads her autobiography Without Warning and Only Sometimes Listen on BBC Radio 4 or Box of Broadcasts.Available in the UK only.
National Disability Arts Collection and Archive
The National Disability Arts Collection and Archive based at Buckinghamshire New University is a national resource which tells the history of the disability arts movement in the UK. The online collection includes 3,500 images of artworks, photographs, films, articles and exhibitions that tell the story of disability arts and the battle for disability rights in […]
Disability arts online
Disability arts online, led by disabled UK artists, includes advice and support for disabled artists as well as listings, reviews, news relating to the arts and accessibility to work by disabled artists. Covers fine arts and performing arts and the heritage sector.
Inclusive humanitarian aid
Age Gender Diversity Matrix Tool – A Framework for an Inclusive World (agd-matrix-tool.com) Developed by Associate Professor Eileen Pittaway and Dr Linda Bartolomei, University of New South Wales.The tool is designed to provide a framework for humanitarian workers and aid agencies to develop policies that are intersectional in terms of inclusivity by categories such as […]
Russian Books of the 18th Century
Open access collection from the University of Illinois Slavic Reference Collection. It forms part of an ambitious on-going project to make all of the books listed in Svodnyi katalog russkoi knigi grazhdanskoi pechati XVIII veka digitally available. Digitized books have been curated from the Russian National Electronic Library (RusNEB). Currently more than 400 available
Dollis Hill War Diary
A new BT archive; the second world war diary of W.G. Radley, Assistant Staff Engineer which reveals work with Bletchley Park and the use of eavesdropping equipment. The site has transcripts and some recorded material and offers insight into the development of technology as well as its political history.
Digitised Olympic games resources
IOC’s Olympic Studies Centre is finishing the process of digitising all the publications of the Organising Committees (OCOGs) of past Olympic Games hosted in France. Recently added are documents from Paris 1900 and 1924, Chamonix 1924, Grenoble 1968 and Albertville 1992. They include programmes, rules and regulations.
African-American archive
The Langston Heritage Group Collection, 1869-2022 documents African-American history in Johnson City, Tennessee, and greater Washington County. It features materials relating to African American churches the African American experience in schools and social life in general. The digital collection forms part of that held by the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University, These include photographs […]
Critical race theory
UCLA Law school project tracking attacks on the teaching of critical race theory in the USA. Critical race theory seeks to expose systematic racism and racist cultures. This UCLA project aims to monitor ways in which states have attempted to ban or limit this. Its website has details, mappings and discussion.
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