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Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary

May 12, 2013 - 3 Comments

The discovery of 60 volumes of diaries belonging to suffrage society activist Kate Parry Frye, has allowed author Elizabeth Crawford to shine new light on the work of New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage during the period 1911 to 1915


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Reinventing the Academic Journal: The ‘Digital Turn’, Open Access, & Peer Review

April 22, 2013 - 5 Comments

Tim Hitchcock and Jason M. Kelly discuss the transformations of the ‘digital turn’ to academic publishing practises and ways of defining an academic community


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Review: Women and Social Movements International, 1840 to the Present

April 19, 2013 - 0 Comments

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


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Trabajadores: Spanish Civil War Archives Online

April 12, 2013 - 0 Comments

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


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An Inadvertent Revolutionary? Developing Law, Crime and History as an Open Access Journal

March 15, 2013 - 0 Comments

Dr Kim Stevenson on being an inadvertent revolutionary with first hand experience of Open Access publishing


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The Indian Memory Project

March 5, 2013 - 2 Comments

Designer and photographer Anusha Yadav writes about the Indian Memory Project website, a visual and oral history of the Indian sub-continent through family and personal archives


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A Response to the Proposed National Curriculum in History

February 24, 2013 - 6 Comments

History teacher Dan Lyndon-Cohen responds to the latest proposals for the National Curriculum in History


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Lincoln Again

February 24, 2013 - 1 Comment

Manisha Sinha on Spielberg’s mythic rather than historical Lincoln, and missed opportunities to uncover the complex history of emancipation


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East End Lives

February 22, 2013 - 0 Comments

John Rennie writes about the East London History website, whose brief is to cover the history of the East End of London, from when the Romans arrived to the present day


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Mr Abbas Goes to New York?

February 18, 2013 - 1 Comment

In the wake of the UN General Assembly’s decision to make Palestine a non-member observer state, Laleh Khalili considers the Palestinian Authority’s strategy within a wider history of what it has meant to become member at the UN and whether that meaning has now changed