Free access to writings covering South West Asia and North Africa
SAGE is offering free access to journal articles, reference entries and chapters covering South West Asia and North Africa ‘for a limited period’ (period not defined). You can search and download academic interdisciplinary content covering a range of social science topics including politics, law, gender studies and social welfare.
More Than Just a Map
This site was created by investigative journalism produced by Tactical Tech’s Exposing the Invisible project, and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. It aims to get members of the public to think critically about maps when conducting research and investigations and consider ways in which they may not be objective. The site as […]
Votes for women: coronation special (1911)
An important part of suffrage campaigning was the organisation of mass processions and parades for the 1911 Coronation of King George V. These Flickr photos show preparations, banners, leaflets, tracts letters and so on. A Fragile Unity: The Women’s Coronation Procession, 1911 is an article on the Mapping Women’s Suffrage website which shows the scale […]
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 […]
extraORDINARY women NI
A site supported by Linen Hall Library which celebrates the strengths, lives and achievements of Northern Irish women from 1965 to the present day. It includes a digital archives of films, images and text resources, blog posts and a resource section with contextual articles, books and teaching resources. Covers all areas of politics as well […]
Ukraine
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 […]
Global Gender Gap Report 2022
Global Gender Gap Report 2022 | World Economic Forum (weforum.org) Get information on the trends from 2020. The report records that it will take another 132 years to close the gap. The website also has infographics and information on economy trends worldwide. The full methodology is provided on the website.
Oral history: Women’s Liberation Movement
Recordings of 14 interviews done to mark the 50th anniversary of Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) in 2020. For the occasion, the Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) run a project, also funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, called ‘Sisters Doing It For Themselves’ to create a unique oral history archive documenting the testimonies of current and past leaders.
Watergate digital records
From the US National Archives and Records Administration To mark the 50th anniversary of the break-in on June 17, 1972 which led eventually led to the resignation of American President Richard Nixon a new website has been created where you can browse evidence from the Watergate trial. They Include images of telephone taps, photographs of accused. […]
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