Resources to support EDI

• EDI Resource Bank is a digital archive containing examples of initiatives, resources and reports designed to support work towards equality, diversity and inclusion. It is moderated by the University of Nottingham.  
• The Library subscribes to Proquest’s Diversity Collection which provides a global view of some of the biggest topics in diversity, equity, and inclusion. It focuses on ethnic, minority, and native presses, grassroots newspapers and magazines, and journals, news and newsletters focusing on gender and sexuality. The collection aims to bring out dissenting and minority voices to support research and teaching in women’s studies, LGBQT+ studies, ethnic studies, and more. 

• African Journals Online is the world’s largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals.  
• Another England – Mapping 100 Years of Black and Asian History is a collection of resources from Historic England. 
• Archives Unbound African American Studies is a collection of primary sources on African American activism, civil rights and US government policy.
• Archives Unbound African Studies,  Asian Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Middle Eastern Studies contain area-focused primary sources, typically emanating from the US and UK.   
• Archives Unbound Holocaust Studies includes primary sources covering anti-semitic propaganda, testaments from victims sourced from the Wiener Library.
• Black Women Oral History Project Interviews, 1976-1981 tells the stories of 72 African American women.   
• HeinOnline’s Civil Rights and Social Justice brings together a wide range of scholarly articles, Congressional research reports, case law and legislation from the United States. 
• Also from HeinOnline, Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law provides access to a wide range of primary sources.  
• The Slave Trade and Abolition is a collection of resources from Historic England.  

Library staff have created the following collections of books and ebooks: 

• Black History Month has sections on Black British and European history, films, fiction, biographies and memoirs, African-American history and contemporary topics.  
• Decolonising the University.

• Archives Unbound: Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies includes collections such as International Women’s Periodicals, 1786-1933: Social and Political Issues, Politics, Social Activism and Community Support: Selected Gay and Lesbian Periodicals and Newsletters. 
• Digital Transgender Archive aims to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.  
• Discovering American Women’s History Online provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States.  
• Pride of Place: England’s LGBTQ Heritage is a collection of resources from Historic England. 
• UK LGBT Archive records the history and memories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people living in the UK. 
• Women’s History is a collection of resources from Historic England. 

You might like to explore the following collections of books and ebooks put together by Library staff: 

• International Women's Day has sections on feminism, intersectionality, meToo, women in media and biographies and memoirs. 
• LGBTQ+ History Month  

• The Disability Archive is curated by the University of Leeds, and aims to provide disabled people, students and scholars with an interest in this and related fields, access to the writings of those disability activists, writers and allies whose work may no longer be easily accessible in the public domain. 
• A History of Disability: from 1050 to the Present Day is a collection of resources from Historic England.  

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