Material focuses on the first phase of ACOA’s history from its foundation in 1953 to the retirement of George Houser as Executive Director in 1981. Drawn from the Amistad Research Center, the collection explores the establishment of ACOA and its role as an organization supporting anti-colonial struggles in Africa during the principal period of decolonization in the 1950s, 1960s and 70s.
A predominantly audio-visual resource featuring 150 full interview rushes with
leading personalities from within the Hindi film tradition, sourced from the private collection of Nasreen Munni Kabir, with contextual essays to demonstrate how useful these histories can be for the study of Hindi Cinema, Indian history and Indian culture. The individuals represented in the resource were instrumental in shaping the genre during the ‘Golden Age’ of Hindi cinema and their interviews focus on recollections and stories of their career and filmography, as well as the wider social and cultural context.
Consisting primarily of Spanish-language sources, this resource explores Mexico’s history from colonization, the War of Independence, the National Period, and
Reform, up to the Mexican Revolution through printed and manuscript material drawn from the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley. From Spanish contact with Indigenous communities to the onset of the Mexican Revolution, students will be able to explore key themes of religion, politics, and conflict throughout Mexico’s history.
This multi-archive resource covers the development of the modern Olympic Games from 1896, the year of the first modern Olympic Games, to 1992. The material can be used by researchers of Olympic and sport history to study the evolution of the Olympic Games, the development of the Paralympic Games, and key political events throughout the twentieth century including the rise of Nazi Germany,
the Cold War and Apartheid.
Study the economic, political, social and cultural history of early modern London through the lens of livery companies. The resource brings together documents from London’s principal livery companies which dominated the social and political life of the city and the companies’ rich and varied records document the central role these wealthy and powerful institutions played in the commercial, financial, political and cultural activity of the city.
Featuring material drawn from archives in the US, UK, Europe, Canada and Australia as well as specific company archives, trade journals and union records, The Transformation of Shopping explores the social and cultural history of the
retail industry, illustrating how department stores adapted to changing consumer needs over time. The material explores the retail industry, and daily and working life through the lens of the department store, covering 160 years of history.
A collection of databases that index the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, as published in journals, conference proceedings, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions across the globe.
This resources brings together diaries and oral histories for the study of the lives and experiences of women living in Britain and Ireland, told in their own words. The resource draws on material from more than 10 archives across the UK and Ireland, with an emphasis on under-represented women, enabling students to study issues of race, gender, class, disability, sexuality, and more.
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