September 7, 2023

Mashable: Google launches incredible online exhibition celebrating Black British music

Mashable: Google launches incredible online exhibition celebrating Black British music. “Entitled Union Black, the online exhibition explores the various pioneers, innovators, and movements that have deeply and undeniably influenced British culture as a whole. Through vintage photographs, historical documentaries, contemporary interviews, and other multimedia stories, Union Black presents a comprehensive and extraordinary retelling of those who have shaped the fabric of the British music scene.”

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July 16, 2023

Share Family: British National Bibliography (Beta) service is live (British Library Digital Scholarship Blog)

British Library Digital Scholarship Blog: Share Family: British National Bibliography (Beta) service is live. “The British National Bibliography (BNB), first published in January 1950, is a weekly listing of new books and journals published or distributed in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland…. BNB is now available to explore in Beta: https://bl.natbib-lod.org. You can search for publications, original works and people.”

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July 2, 2023

University of Birmingham: New project brings the work of Stuart Hall back into the spotlight

University of Birmingham: New project brings the work of Stuart Hall back into the spotlight. “A new multidisciplinary project will expand public understanding and engagement with the work of the celebrated cultural theorist, Professor Stuart Hall. Stuart Hall was a Jamaican-British academic, writer, cultural studies pioneer, public intellectual and teacher who was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1932. As a leading public intellectual, he made major interventions in the cultural and political life of Britain, such as coining the term ‘Thatcherism’ and his work on race and class.”

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May 8, 2023

British Library: Regal Reflections: Exploring a New UK Web Archive Collection on King Charles III

British Library: Regal Reflections: Exploring a New UK Web Archive Collection on King Charles III. “As we bear witness to a new era of the British monarchy and reflect on its role within the UK, the UK Web Archive is recording and preserving this momentous occasion by capturing websites in a special collection about King Charles III. Work started in earnest on this collection on 8th September 2022 when the late Queen, Elizabeth II, passed away and Charles became King, however, it also forms part of a larger series of collections about the British monarchy in the early 21st Century, curated by staff in the UK Legal Deposit Libraries.”

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March 3, 2023

The Guardian: Race Today archive chronicling lives of black Britons to launch online

The Guardian: Race Today archive chronicling lives of black Britons to launch online. “The archive of a magazine chronicling the lives of Britain’s black community during the 1970s and 1980s will be available online for the first time. Race Today magazine, first launched in 1973, combined radical journalism with campaigning zeal to shine a light on the issues affecting Britain’s black communities, as well as providing insight and commentary on politics in Britain and abroad.”

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February 24, 2023

Smithsonian Magazine: See Rare Images of Early 20th-Century Antarctic Expeditions

Smithsonian Magazine: See Rare Images of Early 20th-Century Antarctic Expeditions. “A trove of historic images from early 20th-century Australian and British expeditions to Antarctica is officially available to the public, the National Archives of Australia (NAA) announced this week. Once held by the Australian Antarctic Division, the collection—hundreds of photos, lantern slides and glass plate negatives—has been transferred to the NAA.”

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February 19, 2023

Lancaster University: Focus on silver screen stars and cinema-going now open to all

Lancaster University: Focus on silver screen stars and cinema-going now open to all. “The Lancaster team worked with experts from Queen Mary University of London and the University of Glasgow to produce the ‘Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive: 1930s Britain and Beyond’ (CMDA)… The starting point for the project focused on materials gathered during the course of ‘Cinema Culture in 1930s Britain’ (CCINTB), a large-scale pioneering nationwide inquiry, conducted in the 1990s, into cinema audiences and film going in the 1930s.”

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January 29, 2023

Big Issue: The UK has 2,500 museums, but not one dedicated to Black British history. That could soon change

Big Issue: The UK has 2,500 museums, but not one dedicated to Black British history. That could soon change. “If you’re looking to learn more about the storied history of the pencil, there’s a dedicated museum located just off the A66. Those curious about lawnmowers can make their way to Southport for a journey of discovery at the British Lawnmower Museum. In fact, the more than 2,500 museums in the UK cover a dizzying range of topics, from wide-ranging history to esoteric household items. But among that vast number there is no museum devoted to telling the story of Black British history. A group of campaigners is on a mission to change that.”

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January 20, 2023

inews: Never mind Prince Harry, the Royal Family’s censorship of its archives is the real scandal

inews: Never mind Prince Harry, the Royal Family’s censorship of its archives is the real scandal. “Prince Harry’s very public divorce from the Royal Family does raise questions about how much the monarchy will be able to keep a lid on its secrets. But I suspect that the bigger historical pressure is just around the corner – the growing demand for full independence by the King’s Caribbean dominions, the new focus of historians on British culpability for colonialism, and the passionate demand for restitution and reparations by some Black Brits are likely to lead to a rise in requests for archival material that covers the House of Windsor’s personal involvement in Commonwealth history.”

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January 12, 2023

ArtRabbit: The Personally Queer Archive is seeking submissions for a community archive of LGBTQIA+ stories

ArtRabbit: The Personally Queer Archive is seeking submissions for a community archive of LGBTQIA+ stories. “The Personally Queer Archive (PQA) is a new crowdsourced digital archive aiming to uplift the personal experiences of all queer people in the UK. This is an open call to all LGBTQIA+ identifying people in the UK to contribute to our growing archive of stories. By contributing, you will become a part of our archive, which will preserve the experiences, thoughts, and words of the UK’s queer population and share these stories on social media.”

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January 10, 2023

University of York: World-famous Avebury site to be brought to life online for first time

University of York: World-famous Avebury site to be brought to life online for first time. “Avebury comprises one of the UK’s largest Henge monuments, containing the world’s largest stone circle at almost 350m in diameter, with avenues of paired standing stones… The four-year project will analyse, expand, digitise, and share Avebury’s unique multimedia archive, detailing its Neolithic origins, and a history that ranges from a medieval hamlet to a modern site of heritage, tourism, creativity, and spirituality.”

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