sites of the week 29th July

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

 

 

  

The Endell Street Military Hospital Digital Collection 1915 to 1919. 

New from LSE Digital Library. 

This collection contains the part of the archives of Louisa Garrett Anderson (7LGA) and of Nina Last (7NLA) relating to Endell Street Military Hospital. During the First World War,  Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray founded the Women’s Hospital Corps under the auspices of the French Red Cross. The Endell Street Military Hospital, the first hospital in the UK established expressly for men by women, ran from May 1915 until December 1919 and treated over 26,000 patients, these archives include letters from Louisa Garrett Anderson about the operation and running of the hospital; a notebook by orderly Nina Last covering her work at Endell Street Military Hospital; scrapbook relating to Endell Street Military Hospital compiled by Flora Murray for 1916; 

  

See talk by author Wendy Moore on the history of the hospital 

  

Global Gender Gap Report 2022 | World Economic Forum (weforum.org) 

Get information on the trends from 2020. Shockingly the report records that it qill take another 132 years to close the gap 

The website also has infographics and information on economy trends worldwide. The full methodology is provided on the website 

 

 BBC rewind 

The Rewind archive contains tens of thousands of individual clips from the BBC's news and current affairs output from across the UK, including both regional and national programmes, from the late 1940s to 2021. 

Nationwide, 24 Hours, Tonight, Midweek, Everyman, Monitor, Man Alive, Newsnight, Countryfile and The One Show are covered. Short clips are searchable and arranged by content. 

  

  

Black History and Culture Collection - Getty Images 

Getty images is developing a  database relating to photographic images of the black experience in the USA and Uk. It is currently being offered free of charge for online viewing but may become more commercial in the future. Consult the site for advice on copyright and rights. Click on preview to view the materials. Arranged by time period and topic. These include civil rights, women’s rights, celebrities 

  

Database - African American Student Project  

University of Michigan 

University of Michigan resource covering 1853-1970 which documents and maps black students enrolled at the university. It is searchable by year subject and name. There are also interesting infographics showing where the students lived, data on statistics for enrolment by year and subject for black male and female students  

 

The Future of Data and Analytics- EDUCAUSE 2022 

This report from EDUCAUSE is useful in keeping track of recent and emerging technologies relating to data  and analytics in the Higher education landscape. Areas identified are: 

• Data Management and Governance 

• Unifying Data Sources • 

Modern Data Architecture • 

Data Literacy Training 

• DEI for Data and Analytics 

• Assessing and Improving Institutional Data and Analytics Capabilities 

It includes coverage of existing gaps in knowledge future resources needed future use scenarios and case studies of good existing practise taken from the USA. 

 

 

Lost Cambridge 

site maintained by local historian Antony Carpen 

which contains materials on the centenary of votes for women in Cambridge.  

free access to Cooperative womens guild magazines from Cambridge in the 1980s.which have been uploaded to the Internet archive 

biographies of famous women 

hear an interview 

There are also other presentations and histories made by the author which you can view 

 

Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected Writings 

Terras, Melissa and Crawford, Elizabeth (Eds). (2022) Millicent Garrett 

Free access to this new collection of writings from UCL it reproduces her major writings, speeches and pamphlets covering. Suffrage and women’s rights from a suffragist perspective. Choose the free pdf  to download.

 

New from Bristol University press Global Social Challenges Journal, a non-profit open access publication with a mission to address urgent global social issues across disciplines, fields and geographies. It will publish on 16 themes which are connected to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.    

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