Happy International Women in Engineering Day! Women have traditionally been underrepresented in the science, technology, computing and mathematical professions, yet their contributions have been critical in shaping the modern world, as STEMjobs and IveyEngineering describe. Ada Lovelace invented the fundamentals of programming…
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Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day!
Global Accessibility Awareness Day celebrates all the improvements made to make resources and services available and useful to as many people as possible. All the advances we make in Making resources available in more formats and supporting different ways of…
Happy International Women’s Day!
Today is International Women’s Day! This year the theme is #PressforProgress. It is hard to see what difference an individual can make but like the droplets of water that make up an ocean, together we have the power to reshape the world. …
Celebrating LGBT History Month
February is LGBT History Month. Discover one of the hidden sides of History: the Film Society is showing an LGBT film series, there is a drop-in to talk about LGBTQ equality in the UK being organised by Chaplaincy as part…
Just added: Archives of Sexuality and Gender
Following the successful trial during LGBTQ Awareness month (in February), we are pleased to announce that we have bought permanent access to the online resource “Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History & Culture Since 1940”. This exciting new addition…
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Exploring queer cultures and lifestyles in the creative arts in Britain c1885-1967
The academic study of queer culture and lifestyles has become a popular field of study in several degree courses. We have a broad range of books about this subject in the University Library. For anyone who is interested I came…
Explore LGBT history
Discover what LGBT people has achieved despite historic discrimination. Check out our new LGBT History book display near the Library Café and the display on LGBT biographies on the display case in Area 2B on the second floor. Don’t miss the opportunity to watch the…
Discover LGBT History this month
To celebrate diversity awareness this LGBT History Month, Alexander Street Press have kindly offered access to historic video, book, article and archive collections until 6th March 2016.
LGBT awareness month videos
Alexander Street Press have kindly offered access to historic video, book, article and archive collections until 6th March 2016 to celebrate LGBT History Month. Learn about this facet of cultural and social history through video and collections of books, journals and archival materials:…
Black History Month book display
Black people have a long and fascinating and diverse history of participation, innovation, revolution, and leadership. You can discover more about how black people have helped shape the world at http://www.blackpast.org/ or pick up a book from our new Black History Month book display…
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