In celebration of World Book Day on Thursday 7 March 2024, we would like you to share your favourite books of all time. Let us know which books have moved you and what you like about them or why they excited, engaged, moved or changed you and like books posted by others and we will try to buy the most popular for our library collection so that others can enjoy the books you love most.
With the new Budget coming out on 6 March 2024, there has never been a better time to familiarise yourself with everything being said about the country’s finances. The Budget Service from Lexis+ provides all the relevant full-text content on the day of the budget, providing an invaluable resource of information on changes brought in by the Budget, including the full budget speech, press releases, budget notes, resolutions, and a budget summary from the Tolley Tax Editorial Team.
As LGBTQIA+ History Month draws to an end, it is time to look at the state of affairs as they stand now and ask how far have we actually come and what else should we do?
You don’t have to wait until your final year to let us know how things are going and where we can support you better. Of course, if you are in your final year, please complete the NSS – it really is the single most important piece of feedback you can give.
The catalogue for a new special collection relating to the author, sculptor and academic Professor Rom Landau (1899-1974) is now available on the University Library website.
Oxford University Press (OUP) have made their most read History resources from 2023 freely available to everyone until 30th April 2024 covering a wide range of historical topics. Until the end of April, you have access to more ebook chapters, research encyclopedia entries, and journal articles than ever before.
On 28 June 1969, police raided a gay club in Greenwich Village, New York. Not an unsurprising event – it was still illegal for men to dance together in a nightclub, let alone have consensual sexual relationships, and “masquerading” as the opposite sex, for example, as a drag queen, was also a crime. A club such as Stonewall, which was attended mostly by Black and Latinx men and drag queens, was somewhere the police expected to close down without incident. Instead, the anger of the racially and sexually oppressed erupted into a riot, in turn spawning further riots and protests across the city. The riots focused national attention on the social injustice faced by homosexuals in America and sparked the conversation about tolerance and equality that has seen so much change until today.
Why do we have LGBTQIA+ Pride marches and why have we never had straight pride marches? Which historical figures were gay? What have LGBT people ever done for us? Find the answers in the latest LGBTQIA+ History Month display “Pride in our past”.
Most people are brought up to believe there are two genders, male and female, that are separate and distinct. This is the basis of our understanding of sexual diversity – people are seen either to be attracted to people of the ‘same sex’ or the ‘opposite sex’. Life would be much simpler were this actually so…
What’s in a name? Often, a name focuses the mind and tells us what is important to a movement.
Until the nineteenth century, there was no word for being gay. Once the feelings people had for one another could be described separately from the physical act of making love, progress started to come slowly. At least for gay men. History has shown us that even within a community, and within a movement, different groups are privileged far above others.
