Great news that the radical feminist/queer journal 'Urania,' in circulation between 1916 and 1940, has now been digitised by LSE Library. Still, going to read the original copies earlier this year was a wonderful, if somewhat dizzying, research experience . . . 📚 😵
hello library uni folk! please give @heatherdawson a follow, who has recently joined Mastodon. Heather is a super knowledgeable academic support librarian at the LSE
Save the date for a special "19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed" online event on Sunday November 26, this time in collaboration with ACORSO Research Interest Group "Tailoring for Women 1750 - 1930"!
"Focused on the holdings of Teaching Collections of dress housed across the United States, curators and archivists from featured institutions will share treasures of tailored clothing for women produced and worn during the long nineteenth century."
Programme:
👗 Fashion Archives and Museum of Shippensburg University
👗 Drexel University Robert and Penny Fox Historical Costume Collection
👗 Ohio State University Historic Costume and Textiles Collection
👗 Goldstein Museum of Design (GMD) College of Design University of Minnesota
The National Archives' Annual Digital Lecture will be on 28 November 11:00-12:15 GMT, online. This year's presenters will be Arda Awais and Savena Surana, the co-founders of Identity 2.0a creative studio that works at the intersection of digital rights, technology, and identity. shorturl.at/rxzQZ #archives@histodons
Calling all people and institutions that work with archives!
This year's theme for "Explore Your Archive Week" is in the attached graphic. The campaign has really good engagement over on #X and we'd love to see the campaign to celebrate archives take off here on #Mastodon
Share your archives under the hashtags and we'll boost.
"Toledo is not Madrid" says Mauricio Delichman, as he shows an archival source for his fascinating paper with David Gonzalez Agudo on wages, living standards & skill premia in Toledo 1517-1800, at the economichistory.ca conference hosted by Shari Eli & Laura Salisbury at the Munk School in Toronto! @econhist@economics@laborecon#Spain#Toledo#wages#LivingStandards#skill#archives#history#histodons
#Publication des actes du #colloque tenu aux #Archives nationales en 2021 "Les archives iconographiques et audiovisuelles de la Reconstruction en France, de 1940 aux années 1960", sous la direction de Boris Labidurie et Christel Palant
Librement accessible et téléchargeable dans la collection des publications des Archives nationales sur Books.openedition : https://books.openedition.org/pan/2911
#TIH#OTD 04 Sep 1827: The Great Fire of Turku began. By the next day it had destroyed 75% of the city, then Finland’s largest and the site of key governmental and administrative institutions. Most Finnish #archives, including practically all #medieval material, were destroyed. #BookHistory @bookhistodons@medievodons
Pictured here from the LSE Library archives is Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first President of Bangladesh, meeting Peter Shore (Labour MP) at Heathrow Airport in 1973. They met on several occasions in due course, and Shore was very fond of him.