LGBTIQ+ life in Angola can be traced to before colonialism, though it has not been well documented. A recent project brings these stories to life.
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A former archivist at Mary McLeod Bethune’s home in Washington, DC, recounts how the experience led her to see Bethune as a global figure.
Few copies remain of the earliest known board game produced in the US.
The Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada project uses a new online database to record the events, places, people, organizations and publications that have formed Canada’s LGBTQ+ rights movement.
John Alec Baker’s 1967 novel, The Peregrine, recounts the story of a bird over ten winters, but his archive is the story of a very private man.
Scholars say Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s schools, universities and museums are part of an ongoing project to destroy Palestinian people, identity and ideas.
Digitising manuscripts may promise preservation and accessibility, but technology does not future-proof our access to the past.
ChatGPT can explain key concepts and information that can help people make the most of their time locating, accessing and interpreting archives. But ChatGPT can also give false information.
By disguising her name, Alcott could publish in less prestigious venues without worrying about tarnishing her literary reputation.
Anyone concerned about 2SLGBTQ+ struggles today can learn from the history of resistance and activism preserved in these archives.
The UK needed workers, but government documents reveal British subjects in the Caribbean were still actively discouraged from entering the country
The legendary As-Shams jazz label has released the first of several compilation albums recovered from its archive.
Many of these women worked hours to make the work of psychiatrists accessible to a general readership without any recognition
The Wales Broadcast Archive in Aberystwyth brings together the archives of the BBC, ITV and S4C under one roof.
These disappearances demonstrate deep flaws in the way Australia maintains our rich cartoon heritage.
Cole was a master of portraying the violence of apartheid through scenes of everyday life.
Theatre censorship laws stifled Black playwrights for more than 200 years – here’s what we found in the archive.
In a post-truth era, with limited resources, archivists face difficult decisions about what should be preserved, but the problem is not new.
Over the past 16 years, Twitter has amassed an incredible amount of user-generated data which contains a detailed and extensive record of cultural moments. Musk’s takeover threatens these archives.
A project to transcribe Dutch colonial records of the weather in Cape Town can benefit modelling of future climate scenarios and assist in forecasting weather now.
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Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Assistant Archivist, Germaine Greer Archive, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Data & Society, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of History, University of Waterloo
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Assistant Curator for History and Culture, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Ph.D. Student in Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor, School of History and International Relations, Flinders University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in History, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Paleontology and Director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
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Senior Lecturer in Law, King's College London
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Professor Emeritus, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
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Humanities Librarian, University of Rochester
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Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County