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May 22, 2025
Fitba’ crazy, fitba’ mad? A football inspired reading list (yet again!) TAGS: Books | Britain | e-books | ethnography | Europe | football | history | online resources | social anthropology | Sociology The 2018 World Cup kicks off today in Russia and to mark this occasion we decided to resurrect and update our football inspired reading list that we originally published just …Continue reading →
Why football banned women TAGS: 20th century | databases | First World War | football | gender studies | history | Newspapers | primary source | social history | sport In this week’s blog I’m using some of the Library’s online resources to find primary source material relating to the popularity of women’s football during and just after the First …Continue reading →
Fitba’ crazy, fitba’ mad? A football inspired reading list (again) TAGS: Books | e-books | football | Social & Political Sciences Euro 2016 kicks off tonight in France and to mark this occasion we decided to resurrect and update our football inspired reading list that we originally published almost 2 years …Continue reading →
Archival Provenance Project: Emily’s finds
My name is Emily, and I’m the second of the two archive interns that...
Archival Provenance Project: a glimpse into the university’s history through some of its oldest manuscripts
My name is Madeleine Reynolds, a fourth year PhD candidate in History of Art....
Documentation Challenges in Practice: Art Collection Barcoding Project
In this week’s blog, our Art Collection Documentation Assistant Gaby Cortes discusses some of the...
Sustainable Exhibition Making: Recyclable Book Cradles
In this post, our Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses the recyclable book cradles she has developed...