Recently released by the Library of Congress this website provides images of the quilt created to commemorate American lives lost as well as thousands of digital letters and photos related to the lives of the people commemorated on it and background about the grassroots project which led to its creation and growth.
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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.
ACLED Conflict Index 2024
ACLED Conflict Index 2024 Get reputable data from the team who measure and assess political violence worldwide using indicators based on deadliness, danger to civilians, geographic diffusion, and armed group fragmentation. It enables nation states to be ranked and compared according to levels of conflict. Regional and global assessments made.
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.
The Prado Museum’s new Digital Library
…provides free access to a searchable catalogue of full text books and journals covering art history published from the late 15th to the early 20th century. There are sections on key artists such as Goya and Raphael and many prints from rare books. Some text is in Spanish only.
COVID-19 American History Project guide
American Folklife Center have produced a guide to materials they have collected about experiences of COVID 19. It is available via the Library of Congress and it provides links to COVID-19 collections within the Library of Congress and to online collections outside of the Library.Materials include a selection of online photographs and images and oral […]
Photographs of the Medical Survey of the Bituminous Coal Industry 1946 (US)
New from the USA National Archives thousands of photographs of mining industry and regions taken in USA in 1946 as part of a survey of conditionsIn 1946 the Department of Interior and the United Mine Workers agreed to a joint survey of medical, health and housing conditions in coal communities to be conducted by Navy […]
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 […]
Booker Prize winner 2024
Congratulations to Samantha Harvey on winning the Booker Prize with Orbital. Find it in the library Reading Lounge (Ground floor) at 823.92 HAR.
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