Reading’s Windrush Generation
The Memories of the Reading Windrush Generation and the Descendants is a series of oral-history recordings developed by members of Reading’s local Caribbean community and accessible online. The recordings include the memories of Caribbean-born migrants to the UK: Anderson Springer (Barbados), Grace Browne (Barbados), Neville Nelson (Jamaica), Nordia Nelson (Jamaica) and Rod Welsh (Barbados).
Britain at work
The Britain at Work: Voices from the Workplace 1945-1995 project interviewed people from a diverse range of backgrounds about their experience of work including those who are Caribbean-descended, e.g., Lily Crawford (Jamaica), Dermot Davis (Barbados), Glenroy Watson (Caribbean British), Frank Bailey (Guyana), Frank Murray (Guyana) and Sheila Emmanuel (Dominica). For audio and transcripts of the interviews […]
Birmingham Black Oral History Project
The collection includes oral history interviews with 21 people conducted between 1990 and 1992, who originated from the Caribbean, South Asia and covered a range of themes including first impressions, religious experiences, education, experiences of racism, identity, as well as their thoughts on the future.
The Barnardo’s Oral History project
This project includes:
Making of Black Britain
Making of Black Britain is a non-profit organization collecting stories of the resilience of ordinary people. See:https://themakingofblackbritain.org/ https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-making-black-britain
Fair Reward framework
The Fair Reward Framework (FRF) was created by Church of England Pensions Board and Brunel Pension Partnership, in partnership with the High Pay Centre. It enables researchers to cross-compare the pay policies and practices of 65 FTSE 100 companies with the remainder of the index to follow. The assessments cover 30 indicators of fair pay […]
Museum Data Service
Museum Data Service is a cross-sector catalogue which aims to provide access to over 100 million records from 1,750 UK museums. It launched on 12th September 2024 with an initial collection of 3,129,798 records from 21 museums. A further 1,951,719 records are already in the pipeline. The platform was set up thanks to start-up funding […]
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 […]
Courthauld Gallery Witt Library
The Witt is an extensive collection comprising thousands of reproductions, and cuttings of paintings, drawings, and engravings of Western Art from 1200 to 2009. currently in progress is a digitisation project The first stage of the British school is now being made available. Users can search or browse by keyword or artist. Records have description and […]
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.
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