August 12th 2022

 Here is the latest update of new and interesting sites of the week 

COVID-19 policy responses in the Arab region: Limited fiscal space and lack of effective social protection systems (ESCWA)

The gender pay gap in the health and care sector: A global analysis in the time of COVID-19 (ILO / WHO)

Further updates on new social science research and Uk government research covering covid are on the blog. 

 

Home - Ukraine: Arts and Cultural Heritage - Research Guides at University of Colorado Boulder 

 Librarians at the University of Colorado Boulder have prepared a libguide which provides links to key websites celebrating Ukrainian history, literature and culture. They include resources made since the war which are seeking to web archive and record information 

Internet archive useful blog article with links to international web archives which are seeking to record news blog and other website coverage of the war in Ukraine and its consequences 

   

Dollis Hill War Diary 

New on the BT corporate archive a second world war diary of an engineer WG Radley, Assistant Staff Engineer  

which reveals work with Bletchley Park and the use of eavesdropping equipment. The site has transcripts and some recorded material. Offers fascinating insight into the development of technology as well as its political history 

  

Home - AfricanLII 

AfricanLII is an open-access research platform for African law jointly operated by the AfricanLII based at University of Cape Town and Laws.Africa. AfricanLII . it aims to provide free access to legal materials from the African Union as well as. A network of  national Legal institutes. There are currenty about 16 of these.  

  

Pacific Manuscript Bureau  

adds links to collections held in archives worldwide. A useful tool for researchers of ethnography and colonial , social, political history 

Online Resources - PAMBU - ANU 

The online resources page details digitisation projectsphotographs 

https://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/collections/photo.php 

links to a recent New Guinea photo index which provides a listing of collections in different archives and libraries worldwide.listing:  https://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/docs/NewGuineaHistoricalPhotoCollectionsListJanHasselberg2022.pdf 

  

Canadian women film directors database 

Compiled by Margaret Fulford, a librarian at the University of Toronto this  Database is a great bilingual research tool containing bibliographies, filmographies, quotations, and other information about over 1600 Canadian women directors and their films. It has timelines of key events, a bibliography of key sources about Canadian women directors as well as  a list of awards won by women 

Critical race theory  

UCLA Law school project tracking attacks on the teaching of critical race theory in the USA 

Critical race theory seeks to expose systematic racism and racist cultures this UCLA project aims to monitor ways in which states have attempted to ban or limit this 

its website has details, mappings and discussion 

The Langston Heritage Group Collection, 1869-2022documents African-American history in Johnson City, Tennessee, and greaterWashington County. It features materials relating to African American churches the African American experience in schools and social life in general. The digital collection forms part of the held by the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University, These include photographs and some digitised letters and other documents 

 

 Digitised Olympic games section expanded 

IOC’s Olympic Studies Centre is finishing the process of digitising all the publications of the Organising Committees (OCOGs) of past Olympic Games hosted in France, recently added Paris 1900 and 1924, Chamonix 1924, Grenoble 1968 and Albertville 1992.they include programmes , rules and regulations. 

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