With COP26 now over in Glasgow, I have looked to the Library’s Oceania collections for examples of book artists tackling some of the themes under discussion by world leaders during this crucial conference.
Culture
Inside the Digital Society: Is Your COP Half Empty or Half Full?
The fact is that the digital society is going to evolve not in the status quo we have today, but in a world where climate’s changing; a world that is potentially in growing crisis as a result of climate changes and their consequences.
The fact is that the digital society is going to evolve not in the status quo we have today, but in a world where climate’s changing; a world that is potentially in growing crisis as a result of climate changes and their consequences.
Connie Palmen’s Laws, Loves, and Stories
The protagonist doesn’t understand how this is possible.
The protagonist doesn’t understand how this is possible.
GenderIT: New Edition Features Infrastructures of Resistance and Community Networks Hacking the Global Crisis
Community networks proved that infrastructure is only as robust as the more caring of its communal nodes.
Community networks proved that infrastructure is only as robust as the more caring of its communal nodes.
History Slam Podcast 191: #BlackInSchool
A discussion of system racism in education and the impact on racialized students.
A discussion of system racism in education and the impact on racialized students.
SPACE: The Mentorship Programme That Seeks To Address Gendered Experiences in Access-related Policy and Regulation Building
Whose voices are heard in policy and regulatory spaces? What are our gendered experiences in these spaces? How can we build more inclusive, diverse and community-oriented access policies?
Whose voices are heard in policy and regulatory spaces? What are our gendered experiences in these spaces? How can we build more inclusive, diverse and community-oriented access policies?
Year in Review: 10 Seattle Artworks That Exemplify 2021
From NFTs to street art, here’s how artists conveyed last year’s social trends and hot topics.
From NFTs to street art, here’s how artists conveyed last year’s social trends and hot topics.
Shape-Shifting: Creative Research and ‘The Owner of the Sea’
This blog by Richard Price is part of the Eccles Centre's special Summer Scholars blog series highlighting recent research by scholars and creatives working across the British Library's Americas collections.
This blog by Richard Price is part of the Eccles Centre’s special Summer Scholars blog series highlighting recent research by scholars and creatives working across the British Library’s Americas collections.
Indigenous and Colonial Trackways: A New Historia Nostra Series
Roads, hiking trails, rivers, train tracks, or any manner of routes we use to travel often feel like historically benign spaces.
Roads, hiking trails, rivers, train tracks, or any manner of routes we use to travel often feel like historically benign spaces.
CITAD Launches First Nigerian School of Community Networks
This article was originally published on the website of APC member organisation Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD). CITAD is running the first Nigerian School of Community Network from 6 December. Members of rural communities will be discussing for five days how to create and manage community networks, as an alternative to bridge access gaps in the country.
This article was originally published on the website of APC member organisation Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD). CITAD is running the first Nigerian School of Community Network from 6 December. Members of rural communities will be discussing for five days how to create and manage community networks, as an alternative to bridge access gaps in the country.
Venice: Tales of a Sinking City
Venice is both a muse and a maker.
Venice is both a muse and a maker.
Who Counts? The Data We Use To Prove the Points We Make
The Politics of Population: State Formation, Statistics, and the Census of Canada, 1840-1875.
The Politics of Population: State Formation, Statistics, and the Census of Canada, 1840-1875.
Investigating German Colonialism in the British Library’s Collections
However, the texts occasionally reveal how local resistance undermined imperial authority.
However, the texts occasionally reveal how local resistance undermined imperial authority.
Sandra Agard: An Ode to Ridley Road
This is the fourth in a series of blogs coming out of the eccles centres’ caribbean foodways oral history project. Identifying connections between participants’ stories and collection items, each blog explores one of the nine oral history interviews that will be deposited in the sound archive.
This is the fourth in a series of blogs coming out of the eccles centres’ caribbean foodways oral history project. Identifying connections between participants’ stories and collection items, each blog explores one of the nine oral history interviews that will be deposited in the sound archive.
The Masters of Margarita – Anglo-Spanish Rivalry, Treason and the Slave Trade
This blog by Rebecca Goetz (Visiting Fellow, 2018) is part of a special Summer Scholars blog series highlighting recent research across the British Library's Americas collections by scholars and creatives associated with the Eccles Centre, including those supported by the Centre's Awards.
This blog by Rebecca Goetz (Visiting Fellow, 2018) is part of a special Summer Scholars blog series highlighting recent research across the British Library’s Americas collections by scholars and creatives associated with the Eccles Centre, including those supported by the Centre’s Awards.
Organizing for Abolition in Toronto: A Conversation With Dr. Beverly Bain
Khaleel Grant’s interview with Dr. Beverly Bain was conducted in March 2021. Bain is a professor of women and gender studies in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga campus.
Khaleel Grant’s interview with Dr. Beverly Bain was conducted in March 2021. Bain is a professor of women and gender studies in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga campus.