‘I open up my mouth and I just sing’: Studying Black health and the humanities

by | 05 Sep 2021 | General, Guest Posts, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Writing Race

In the eleventh post for our ‘Writing Race’ series, Dr Amber Lascelles introduces the Black Health and the Humanities project at the University of Bristol. The project sits at the intersection of Black humanities and medical humanities, and brings together...

Online Resources: History of London

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Online Resources

Charles Booth’s London: Poverty Maps and Policy Notebooks https://booth.lse.ac.uk/ This resource enables researchers to search through the notebooks from Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903) by providing visitors to the site to search through 41...

Online Resources: Early Modern Britain

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Online Resources

Bentham Papers Database  http://www.benthampapers.ucl.ac.uk/ This resource provides researchers with access to a database focused on the papers of early modern English utilitarian philosopher, jurist, economist, and social reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832). The...

Historical photographs as sensitive sources: questions and challenges

by | 07 Sep 2020 | Guest Posts

  Digitisation projects, as well as the rise in the use of social media by libraries, heritage organisations and authors are widening access to visual historical materials. But what are the risks of making images of vulnerable people, including medical patients...

Past Time: A Learning Resource about Victorian Prisons

by | 23 Apr 2020 | Guest Posts, Teaching Portal

Historians and specialists in Arts in criminal justice settings have developed a learning resource to bring prison history and archival materials alive through creative methods. In this guest post, Hilary Marland describes the process of collaborating with a theatre...