Review: Women and Social Movements International, 1840 to the Present
Sinead McEneaney reviews the Women and Social Movements International reference database, published by Alexander Street Press, which contains 60,000 documents relating to women in social movements in the United States
Trabajadores: Spanish Civil War Archives Online
Liz Wood, Assistant Archivist at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, writes about the Centre’s recent digitisation project for primary sources in English from the Spanish Civil War
Fear of Forgetting
A story of copying and illuminating a manuscript by Josh Baum
Evidence of Mao’s Hidden Famine, Inside China’s State Archives
Researching the history of the Great Famine in China through archival sources, by Zhou Xun
Come on Ruskin: Do the Right Thing
HWO Editor Toby Butler, a former student of Ruskin College, shares his reaction to the destruction of Ruskin’s student records
The Women’s Library: Not Saved Yet
Further information and discussion about the fate of the Women’s Library, and the closure of the purpose-built, Heritage Lottery Funded building that housed the library in Whitechapel, by Laura Schwartz
Archives: A House on Fire?
Anne Summers writes about 2012′s shutdowns, sales and destruction of archival resources in Britain, a year that has exceeded any pessimist’s wildest imaginings…
Thoughts & Questions of a Ruskin Graduate on the College Archives
The personal experiences of Denise Pakeman, graduate of Ruskin College, of the destruction of archival records about working-class students from the first decades of the college
Ruskin Governors’ Meeting
Information on how to contact the governors at Ruskin College regarding the future of the Ruskin archives
Whose Archive? Whose History? Destruction of Archives at Ruskin College, Oxford
News from Hilda Kean, former Dean of Ruskin College, that archival material from Ruskin’s past is being destroyed
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