This collection of links to resources on British histories of race, migration and empire is a collaboration with the Runnymede Trust as part of an effort to increase the presence of Black history, histories of colonialism and of migration in the UK history curricula.
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MEMSlib is an initiative of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent. This student-led project developed out of our shared desire to support academic peers and colleagues during the Covid-19 pandemic.
https://www.memslib.co.uk/resources
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CAIN Web Service – Conflict and Politics in Northern Ireland.
The CAIN (Conflict Archive on the INternet) Web site contains information and source material on ‘the Troubles’ and politics in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present. There is also some material on society in the region. CAIN is located in Ulster University and is part of ARK and INCORE.
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Drawing on materials from our mutual collections alongside new research, we hope in this exhibition to provide an insight into the presence and experiences of mixed race Irish families in Britain, the range of social reactions towards them, and the social contexts in which they lived. By creating an Irish perspective within the history of racial mixing in Britain, we seek to further highlight the longstanding diverse history of Britain itself.
http://mixedmuseum.org.uk/amri-exhibition/
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African American Transatlantic Abolitionism. Here you will find information on formerly enslaved African Americans who made radical and politicized journeys to the British Isles during the c19th to educate British audiences about slavery, racism, and lynching. They spoke in large cities and small fishing villages across the length and breadth of the British Isles, published thousands of copies of their slave narratives and spoke to millions of people. The maps of their speaking locations are designed to be visual monuments of their courageous and inspiring activism, and how Britons walk past sites rich in Black activism on a daily basis.
You’ll find links to abolitionist biographies (with their own separate maps) and info on Frederick Douglass’ 3 journeys to Britain and Ireland. In the navigational bar, you’ll find three pages dedicated to mapping African American lecturing tours: one is entirely focused on Douglass, the second represents nearly 5,000 lectures from Douglass and 25 other African Americans, and the third shows a chronology of visits over time.
http://frederickdouglassinbritain.com/
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Conflict Textiles has its origins in an exhibition The Art of Survival: International and Irish Quilts which was held at nine venues across Derry ~ Londonderry in early 2008. This exhibition, which also featured Chilean arpilleras (three dimensional textiles from Latin America, which originated in Chile) was the result of collaboration between Derry City Council Heritage and Museum Services and The Junction with guest curator Roberta Bacic.
https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/about-2/
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INTOXICATING SPACES: The Impact of New Intoxicants on Urban Spaces in Europe, 1600–1850.
Focusing on four European cities between c.1600 and c.1850 – Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, and Stockholm – this two-year project (2019–21) explores the impact of new intoxicants on urban public spaces, the role of urban public spaces in assimilating them into European behaviours, and the often exploitative international systems through which they were produced, trafficked, and consumed. Via our events, our online exhibition, and our work with schools and museums and NGOs, we hope to demonstrate that understanding these processes offers a vital historical perspective on urgent contemporary questions surrounding drug use and abuse, addiction, migration, inclusion and exclusion within public spaces, and the place of intoxicating substances within everyday life.
https://www.intoxicatingspaces.org/
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Electric Irish Homes: Rural Electrification, Domestic Products and Irish Women in the 1950s and 1960s. Electric Irish Homes: Rural Electrification, Domestic Products and Irish Women in the 1950s and 1960s is a research project looking at the effects of rural electrification on rural Irish housewives and homes during the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on the importation, promotion, cultural context and significance of domestic electrical products and their meaning to a generation of rural housewives.
It was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council from 2016 to 2019, and includes the Kitchen Power exhibition in the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life and a forthcoming monograph. The Principal Investigator for the project is Dr. Sorcha O’Brien, a member of the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University, London from 2012 to 2019. Sorcha is an Irish design historian who has previously worked on electrical technology and national identity in Ireland, and is the author of Powering the Nation: Images of the Shannon Scheme and Electricity in Ireland. The Principal Investigator for the project is Dr. Sorcha O’Brien, a member of the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University, London from 2012 to 2019. Sorcha is an Irish design historian who has previously worked on electrical technology and national identity in Ireland, and is the author of Powering the Nation: Images of the Shannon Scheme and Electricity in Ireland. The Project Partner is the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, based in Castlebar, Co, Mayo, which showcases traditional Irish ways of life, including crafts and domestic life.
https://electricirishhomes.org
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The Humanities Institute’s podcast series features more than 200 recorded lectures, papers, interviews and presentations that have taken place in, or have been supported directly by the UCD Humanities Institute. Since the launch of the series in late 2010 there have been over 120,000 downloads of our podcasts and the series continues to attract listeners from around the world. The podcasts are recorded and managed by Real Smart Media.
The best way to receive the latest Humanities Institute podcasts is to subscribe to our series on iTunes or become a follower of our Soundcloud page. All podcasts from the series are available to stream on the playlist below. The complete list of our podcasts is available here.
https://www.ucd.ie/humanities/events/podcasts/
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