Gilbert and Sullivan: gender, genre, parody by Carolyn Williams A couple of weeks ago I saw UPDMS perform Ruddygore (or The Witch’s Curse) at the Theatre Royal in Portsmouth. It was a trip down memory lane for me. Thirty years…
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International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate the accomplishments of women throughout history and reflect on the ongoing systematic social marginalisation that has undervalued them and deprived humanity of so much of its ingenuity and genius – an ongoing problem as…
Celebrate Women’s History Month
Celebrate Women’s History Month with women’s writings and video collections about women in history courtesy of Alexander Street Press.
Celebrating Women’s History Month
We are delighted to present two Women’s History resource collections kindly made available by Alexander Street Press to celebrate Women’s History Month this March (until 31 March), British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries Second Edition and Women and Social Movements, International, as well as the Women’s…
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:…
Creative Arts Book of the Week 01/02/16
The story of the ‘Domus Dei’ of Portsmouth: commonly called the Royal Garrison Church by Henry Press Wright As someone interested in local history I was aghast when I discovered we only had one ancient pamphlet on this subject in…
Posted in Reviews, Subjects: Creative Arts, Subjects: Humanities Tagged with: archaeology, architecture, archives, books, geography, history
New resource: Nineteenth Century US Newspapers
We are pleased to offer a new US newspaper archive that offers various ways to search and browse US newspaper titles as far back as 1800, including African-American newspapers as well as titles that pre-date a state’s admission into the Union. Titles covered include Afro-American (Baltimore),…
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