Access the annual reports and other publications of the UK's Commission for Racial Equality from the 1970s - 2008.
Explore 20 collections of documents, including minutes of meetings and conferences, press releases, fliers, brochures, press clippings, US government memoranda and reports, private correspondence, surveys and photos.
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Access thousands of items from archives based mainly in the USA but also including the UK, Ireland, Spain and Brazil. The largest collections are photos, clippings and newsletters but you will also find correspondence, speeches, posters and ephemera.
Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement encompasses an international set of resources to enrich study in a wide range of disciplines from media studies to philosophy.
Explore primary sources for gender history, women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men's movement, the body, domesticity and the family. The records available include some from pressure groups giving details of 20th century lobbying and activism.
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Read and listen to the testimonies of over 100 women who took part in the protests against US cruise missiles being held at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire starting in 1981 and lasting 19 years. Photographs and music from the protests are also available.
Launched in 1981 by the University of Sussex as a rebirth of the original 1937 Mass Observation, this aims to document the social history of Britain by recruiting volunteers to write about their lives and opinions. It is one of the most important sources available for qualitative social data in the UK. This collection consists of the directives (questionnaires) sent out by Mass Observation in the 1980s/1990s and the thousands of responses from the hundreds of Mass Observers on topics such as elections, Europe, AIDS, the miners' strike, Britishness, the fall of the Berlin Wall, TV soaps, family life, education, the National Lottery, the Stephen Lawrence Enquiry, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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Please note that we have the sections covering the 1980s and 1990s.
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A key source about daily life in the 20th century. You can look at topic collections (1938-65) on juvenile delinquency, holidays, leisure, industry etc., or view diary entries (1939-51) and day surveys. File reports (1937-1972) cover subjects such as propaganda, morale, popular culture, food, shopping, sex, fashion and much more.
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This site unpacks the issues of migration, identity and diversity facing contemporary societies. It features information, stories, images and learning resources, with links and further reading to follow up. Read about new research on the histories and cultures of Britain's diverse communities. The Migration Histories section looks at some major historical migrations and how they have helped shape the UK.
This archive from the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick, lets you access documents starting with Jewish East London in the 1880s, moving through British ports 1910s-1930s, West Indian migration 1948-58, South Asian and Ugandan Asian migration in the 1970s to Race, policing and the 1980s riots. Although many documents can be accessed online, some are only available in printed form in Warwick.
fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery
An extensive range of primary and secondary sources, plus thematic essays on multiple aspects of feminism from 1776 to 1928.
A collection of 205 oral history interviews conducted between 1974 and 1981 covering the suffrage movement in Edwardian Britain but then widening to discussion of women's lives and experience as the 20th century progressed. Scroll down to find all the recordings.
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A major collection on women's history held within the London School of Economics and Political Science Library but available to those who need to use it.
Access a digitised collection of annual reports, pamphlets and newspapers held at the LSE but made available to everyone.
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