Mary Middleton
On campaign. This page from English Heritage by historians Andrew Roberts and Lisa Berry-Waite recounts the life of one of the early women political campaigners, Mary Middleton, who sought to be elected in 1924. Her story reveals how the pre-war period and the First World War created new opportunities for women politicians but also the […]
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:
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 […]
A history of general elections
A history of General Elections online exhibition based on LSE Library archives. It has images of artefacts and blog postings on the history of parliamentary elections from 1838 onwards. It highlights the founding of the Conservative and Labour parties, women’s suffrage and electoral reforms. Contributions are written by specialist curators and there is an accompanying […]
Shaping Europe
Shaping Europe The story of European Parliament elections. An online exhibition created by Europeana which is supported by Europe’s national libraries and heritage organisations. It is arranged in chronological chapters including the prehistory from the 1950s and the first parliament elections in the late 1970s. The text is clear and includes original images and many […]
Sites of Feminist Memory: A Map of Memorials to the Women’s Suffrage Movement
This site was created by citizen science which aims to geolocate on a visual map key sites to feminist memorials worldwide. Key figures involved in the project include Marc Calvini-Lefebvre who curates the blog Sites of feminist Memory: Women & the F-Word. https://doi.org/10.58079/vagc.The site is mapping memorials statues, commemorative plaques and buildings. Entries are being […]
Indicators for Democratic Parliaments
From the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a platform of 25 indicators that can be used to help assess the capacity and performance of parliaments enabling them to become stronger democratic institutions. Full methodology and background is provided on the website.
Participedia
Participedia net Participedia is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). It is a crowdsourced directory of organisations, case studies and tools relating to participatory action and citizen action worldwide. Collections include the COVID citizen projects, transnational social movements and collective action.
Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture
Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture (ECPPEC)A project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council to research how people participated in parliamentary elections in England in the period from 1695 to the Reform Act of 1832. It includes coverage of the role of women. It contains case studies of polling data and essays and […]
Belarusian politics archive
Belarusian Politics and Society Web Archive: Archive-It – Belarusian Politics and Society The site was curated by librarians at Harvard and Stanford Universities, the University of Chicago, and the Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum to preserve material related to the 2020 presidential election campaign in Belarus and the protests against the government of President […]
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