Locating London’s past
Locating London’s past This revamped website enables searching of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London. The results are then mapped on to a version of John Rocque’s Survey of London, Westminster & Southwark, 1746. Datasets include:
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.
The HERstroy Project
The HERstory Project is a student-led site containing largely early-career researchers’ work in progress. It offers articles and research pieces on women, under-represented individuals and queer history. The editorial group publish online articles, and their first physical journal issue called ‘Pioneers’, which includes content on Agnès Varda, Ada Lovelace, Lily Gladstone and Native American women […]
Dr Kathleen Lynn digital collection
This Royal College of Physicians of Ireland maintained website provides information and access to digitised materials relating to the career of Dr Kathleen Lynn, nationalist and chief medical officer of the Irish Citizen Army. It includes digitised versions of the four volumes of Dr Lynn’s diaries from 1916 to 1955 covering her insight into the […]
Urban Heritage Atlas
The UNESCO Urban Heritage Atlas has just been launched. The Atlas currently features 10 World Heritage cities It provides interactive maps, histories of the construction , architectural features and cultural historical importance of each of the cities.
Women’s history month: Europeana online exhibitions
Europeana online exhibitions and blogs covering women’s history themes. The essays feature images of material items from Europe’s national libraries. They include national collections and biographies of individuals such as Josephine Baker, Charlotte Bronte, Miriam Makeba and Queen Elizabeth II.
Women’s history month: 2 padlets
2 padlets for Women’s History Month, being added throughout March.
National Archives: Sexuality and gender identity history
A guide on research on gender and sexuality in the UK National Archives. Emphasis is on their holdings of government, legal and police records. Guidance is offered on other organisations too.
Historic town planning: Kenya
Digitisation of Nairobi City Council minutes and gazette archive collection from 1920-1950 at the McMillan Memorial Library, Nairobi (Kenya) (EAP1357). One of the latest releases from the Endangered archives programmes. Minutes and documents covering colonial town planning in Nairobi during the period.
Bibliothèque numérique caraibe amazonie plateau des guyanes
Manioc.org is a digital library of sources covering Amazonia and the Caribbean maintained by the University of the West Indies and the university of Guyana. It has books, prints, maps and documents of the history and culture of the region including slavery. Some items are offered in French only.
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