Social Mobility Barometer, 2021
The latest annual report from the UK Social Mobility Commission is a poll of what the public think about equality and social mobility. This year it includes what people think about the impact of the pandemic on the chances of social mobility. Over half the public (56%) think the pandemic has increased social inequality. Only one in […]
Black & Gay, Back in the Day
Black & Gay, Back in the Day is an LGBT Plus photographic archive made available via Instagram. It is maintained by Marc Thompson Director http://thelovetank.info and Jason Okundaye and offers a great range of images from Britain since the 1950s.
African American Members of the U.S.Congress, 1870-2020
The latest Congressional research service report now has updated data. It incudes total numbers, data on each congress and party affiliations. There are also essays giving overviews of trends in representations and biographies of all members.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States.
An open-access archive of primary sources covering the following six topics: Slavery and abolition Civil war and reconstruction Jim Crow segregation 1878-1932 New Deal and WWII Civil Rights and Black Power Movements till 1975 Contemporary era Find links to the resource on our A-Z of Databases or Library Search
Black History Month exhibition
An online exhibtion from theFeminist Library: WE ARE HERE: How Black Women have been the backbone to radical social movements. The online exhibition is based on a physical one currently taking place in the library. It has some great posters leaflets and flyers mainly from the 1970s/1980s.
Radical! A Retrospective of Twentieth-Century Dissent
An online exhibition from the University of Utah It includes examples of 20th century pamphlets, posters and literary magazines from radical socialist and workers organisations.
The diversity of HE governors
The first ever report on this subject has been published by AdvanceHE.
Black graduates
A HESA report which concludes that black graduates are less satisfied with their career than white graduates can be accessed from the HESA website.
Black women’s suffrage collection launched
New site from the Digital Public Library of America provides free access to thousands of primary source documents including letters, manuscripts and photos, political posters from the 19th century until the liberation movement of the 1960s. Includes: school segregation and black Panther collections the Ida B. Wells Barnett Papers from the University of Chicago Other features […]
Race and Power: Cambridge University Press
Just launched by Cambridge University press, a free collection of journal articles and book chapters which engage critically with the legacy of empire, the slave trade and issues of race and power in society. It will be updated quarterly.
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