Social science sites of the week 30th January 2021

 Here is the latest update of new and updated sites for social scientists 

 

Still updating the blog with key covid links

 

 

Burns Night - some free academic sites for Social Scientists


people in Scotland often hold a Burns supper isa celebration of the life and poetry of Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), the author of many Scots poems.

National Library of Scotland 1971 recording of a burns supper

National Records of Scotland has some text and images of official recordss relatng to him including baptism, his work as an exciseman and court cases !
'Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect'
was the first collection of Burns's work to appear in print. Published in Kilmarnock by John Wilson in 1786. The National Library of Scotland has an edition online . Look inside for the famous poem to a Mouse .
The National Library also has an online Broadsides of the Street Collection that includes some poems read at early Burns celebrations

and an exhibition of illustrations that appeared in his early printed editions

 

Holocaust memorial day has seen the release of a number of new resources

 

Testifying to the Truth,

from London's Wiener Library

 is now freely accessible online. This online database shares over 1,500 eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust, many of which have never been available to the public online before and have been translated, by a team of the Library’s volunteers, into English.  There are thematic collections including concentration camps, gender, medical experiments and the experiences of children. they include biographies, letters, testimonies 

 


from Surrey History centre
a webpage and podcast about 

Rowledge House Hostel near Farnham in Surrey, where  European refugee children and evacuees were cared for and provided with an Orthodox Jewish education

Listen to a podcast or explore some of the images  

 

Donald J. Trump Presidential Library website

 has been launched by The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) 

Currently containing  archived official social media accounts and official websites

 

al-Hakawati - Digital Public Library of Arab and Islamic Culture

The website is a free educational resource and reference made possible by the Arab Cultural Trust. al-Hakawati is the Arabic word for storyteller.  

it includes nearly 400 full-text searchable heritage books on astronomy, history, mathematics, poetry, medicine, geography, religion, music . Also provided are some

Audio recordings of poems and stories, Constitutions of the Arab countries

Information about nature preserves, local flora and fauna

 

George III topographical maps available on Flickr

The British Library released recently a huge archive of nearly 18,000 maps with no copyright restrictions. The collection of maps are from the Topographical Collection of King George III they include maps, cartoons and prints and some marvellous coloured atlases of the time.

New database for diversity and inclusion in HE
The EDI Resource Bank has been developed as part of STEMM-CHANGE, a project at the University of Nottingham funded by EPSRC Inclusion Matters. .

it aims to provide practitioners with a single database of useful resources in supporting and implementing diversity and inclusion programmes. It is divided into case studies and resources to support

resources include guidance, strategic plans developed by Uk universities.

and practical advice

 

 

 Industry Voices, 

is a series of 12 films  from the  Screen Industries Growth Network (SIGN) and Candour Productions.

which aim to give voice to under represented voices (  race, ethnicity, gender, social class and disability,)  to provide accounts of discrimination and challenges they have faced working in uk film 

this blog explains why

 https://screen-network.org.uk/industry-voices-diversity-and-inclusion/



New Women disabled first wave feminist podcasts

Adapted for podcast for Disability Arts Online’s Covid Commissions programme, New Women is produced by Clear Voice Enterprises.

each programme is written by Louise Page, providing fictional interviews based on leading first wave figures such as suffragette wheelchair user 

Rosa May Billinghurst, and campaigner Helen Keller.

 Throughout each 10-minute episode, the women narrate their lives in the early twentieth century. 

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