Diversifying & Decolonising

Advance HE works with institutions and higher education across the world to improve higher education for staff, students and society. This is their site promoting EDI.

Information for staff from UoP's Equality and Diversity Unit

The official UK body with the mandate to challenge discrimination.

Oxfam's Inclusive Language Guide is a resource to support people to think about how the way they write can subvert or inadvertently reinforce intersecting forms of inequality. The language recommended is drawn from specialist organizations which provide advice on language preferred by marginalized people, groups and communities, and by Oxfam's staff and networks, to support us to make choices that respectfully reflect the way different groups wish to be referred to.

Annotated listings of general and subject-specific chapters, books, journal articles and websites to help with decolonising the curriculum, produced by UoP's DCQE. Click the tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet to move between Faculty suggestions.

The BWRD historizes and visualizes Black women’s radical political activism in Africa and in the African Diaspora. It seeks to overcome the erasure of Black women’s political leadership, organizing, theorizing, and socio-political movement building in Africa and in the African Diaspora that has often been ignored in favor of Black and white cis-heteronormative male charismatic leadership.

Very clear explanation of what white privilege means in this BBC Bitesize video clip

The UK's leading race equality think tank providing authoritative, evidence-based interventions to overcome racial inequality.

Work through this thought-provoking checklist and try some of the others listed down the right of the screen including "How Privileged Am I?"

This is a list of known research repositories across Africa. The remit is to promote the dissemination of knowledge from and on Africa.

This database seeks to enhance recognition and citation of black academic voices.

This collection of databases put together by the University of Leeds highlights research produced by underrepresented groups, with a particular focus on the Global South

Results of Latin American public opinion surveys from 1995 onwards. Available in English and Spanish. Go to Online Data Analysis for summary reports by country. 

Access the world’s largest public policy database with 3.2+ million resources from 24,000+ global organizations. Covers topics like health, education, business, and more. Free registration needed for 25 searches a month. Watch this short video to see how it could help you.

This searches the websites of over 1,200 institutions across the world that generate public policy research, analysis and activity. These sites are affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, and non-governmental organizations. This site also leads you to other sources for finding policy.

Use this site to help gather a large range of statistics, including detailed data on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

This is a pan-African platform for news, investigation and opinion, analysing issues facing the continent and providing a platform for a diversity of voices. Over two-thirds of articles published in 2019 were by African authors. 

Based in Senegal with a network of correspondents throughout Africa, this aims to be the most complete information portal on Africa. Also available in French and Portuguese.

PressReader lets you access UK and international newspapers, plus a wide range of magazine content. Everything is full colour with archives varying in length depending on the publication.

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Up-to-date, key facts and statistics, and background essays, for countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Russia and Eastern Europe.

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A listing of key web resources covering South and Central America compiled by experts at the University of Texas.

Read authoritative, peer-reviewed, regularly updated entries written by experts on African History from across the world. Topics include African Diaspora, Afrocentrism, Oral Traditions, Women's History, Religious History, Slavery and Colonial History.

A key source for comparing statistics useful for modules on development issues. Scroll down looking on the right to find the wide list of topics covered.

Explore a range of documents from the early 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century covering desegregation, civil rights activities and protests, race relations and community integration, plus African American culture. You will find facsimiles of letters, pamphlets, photos, maps, legal records etc, plus oral history interviews which you can watch.

Read accounts of slave life by over 2,300 former slaves as told to interviewers between 1936 and 1938.

Access the annual reports and other publications of the UK's Commission for Racial Equality from the 1970s - 2008.

Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals. You will find material relating to Native American history in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

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 website presents the often untold stories of the migrants who came to and shaped the British Isles from Roman times to the 21st century. While it is primarily designed to support teachers and students studying migration to Britain, its aim is to be a useful resource for anyone interested in Britain’s migration history.

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.

An archive about racial segregation including photos and letters.

A unique collections of films including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases on every topic imaginable. Content can be searched or browsed.

Myalgic encephalomyelitis, also called chronic fatigue syndrome or ME/CFS, is a long-term condition with a wide range of symptoms. The most common symptom is extreme tiredness.  This website provides NHS information on symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.

The UK’s leading organisation led by, run by, and working for Disabled people.

A variety of helpful resources for ME / Chronic Fatigue from NHS Oxford University Hospitals.

Resources from the ME Association, a small medical charity, which has been providing expert help since 1978.

The UK’s leading charity for everyone’s mental health. With prevention at the heart of what they do, they aim to find and address the sources of mental health problems so that people and communities can thrive. 

NICE guidance and resources for ME/CFS.

Globally 1 in 7 people live with a disability, and of those, 80% are invisible. Find out about non-visible disabilities via this site.

Disability equality charity in England and Wales, providing practical information and emotional support.

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.

Online resource from Historic England which reveals how disabled people's lives are integral to the heritage around us.

Digital archive chronicling the history of disability arts in the UK. It includes 3,500 images, oral history film interviews, educational resources and animations and articles.

Various oral history collections from the British Library, some of which are available online.

Resources related to themes from UK Disability History Month events in previous years.

Official data enabling comparison across countries

MindOut is a mental health service run by and for lesbians, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people with experience of mental health issues. They work to improve the mental health and wellbeing of all LGBTQ communities via an online support service.

An equalities organisation that works to address the inequalities which women face in society. They aim to achieve equality, justice and safety in the law for all women.

Founded in 1989, Stonewall has helped create transformative change in the lives of LGBTQ+ people across communities in the UK.

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.

Watch this quick introduction to the archive - please note we only subscribe to Part 1 which contains British material as well as coverage from North America.

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.

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.

Watch this 40 minute webinar to understand more about the content available.

Online resources from this society in San Francisco, which is recognised as a leader in the field of LGBTQ public history.

Overview of special collections and archives relating to LGBT issues held at the London School of Economics Library. Although most of the collections are held in print within the LSE, this site links to very detailed descriptions of the lives of those mentioned, as well as further information about what is in each archive.

This site charts the struggles for love, identity and legislative change faced by LGBTQ communities in the UK from 1500 onwards via items from the BL collections.

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.

Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 explores prominent themes in world history since 1820: conquest, colonization, settlement, resistance, and post-coloniality, as told through women’s voices. With a clear focus on bringing the voices of the colonized to the forefront, this highly-curated archive and database includes documents related to the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the British, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and United States Empires, and settler societies in the United States, New Zealand and Australia.

An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines. Issues are scanned in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.

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.