Sites of the week 4th November 2021
Here is the latest update of new sites for social scientists
Covid -still updating the blog with links to government documents
In the news : environment
History day was held this week the theme was environmental history
View the marvellous showcase youtube film (60 minutes) of resources from Libraries and archives.
There is also a padlet of resources ranging from individual nature memories shared by participants to stunning images from nature diaries and rare books held in archives
I learnt about A marvellous historic weather data station
Armagh planetarium and weather station
Has a digitised database of calibrated data from 1838-1904 to 2001-2004 . So you can look up what the weather was like on a specific day. There are some scanned original images of the books as well as materials on the history of weather changes which would be fascinating for accounts of long term climate changes at a local level
Data from 1853 onwards is also held in the Met Office database Much of the historic data for Armagh is held at the Public Record Office Northern Ireland (PRONI) as well, with start dates in the 1860s and 1870s for most types of data.
Also showcased ‘Where the Wild Things Were’ a series of oral history recordings made by Tees Valley Wildlife Trust. The project set out to record people’s memories of their childhoods, explore the maps from 1930s-1960s which has sound recordings of childhood wildlife memories of plants animals and free roaming in the district including egg collecting aRead more about it on this blog post from the Teesside Archives
Borough PhotosBrowse photographic images from 12 London Borough Archives. They incude Barking and Dagenham where there are images of council housing estates from 1960s-1970s as well as local shops and town show events.
Locating London’s PastTime to revisit this great website which enables researchers to search a wide body of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London, and to map the results on to version of John Rocque's 1746 . Datasets that can be mapped include: Hearth tax for 1666, Mortality and Plague in 1665; London Lives, 1690-1800: Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis; Museum of London Archaeological Data (MOLA) Records of clay tobacco pipes and glass tableware from London archaeological sites; Old Bailey Proceedings
A great National Lottery supported site which contains digitised content from the Westminster archives . Contains, maps video footage and oral history accounts of life in central London during the Blitz and second World war. Includes digitised bomb damage maps and rare colour footage. Also provided is a teacher’s resource guide with suggested lesson materials.
Red Cross Black HistoryThe Red Cross has prepared a online exhibition about the role of black humanitarians in its organisation as volunteers and humanitarian aid workers .It includes images and biographies
Nations to Nations: Indigenous Voices at Library and Archives Canada a free multimedia e-book available via apple books which enabled Canadian indigenous peoples to write their own essays and choose images and multimedia recordings from the collections of the National Archives of Canada presenting new interpretations from a more diverse viewpoint
Monumental Welsh Women
The website of the organisation which is campaigning to put up memorials and statues to famous female leaders . It recently featured in the news after having achieved the objective of funding a stature for Welsh black head teacher Betty Campbell. See more biographies and details of the campaigns relating to these unsung heroines on the website
Smithsonian libraries jigsaw puzzles
Play alone or in groups using images from Smithsonian library collections. New puzzles are listed on the blog
They include Walter Crane’s 1894 The absurd A.B.C. borrows bits from several well-known nursery rhymes.
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