New eBooks October 2024
The following is a list of new ebooks received by the Library during October. More complete listings for the year can be found on our website’s new books page.
New Books October 2024
The following is a list of new books received by the Library during October. More complete listings for the year can be found on our website’s new books page
“Our Portsmouth” photography exhibition now showing
Come take a photographic tour of Portsmouth as you have never seen it before. We are delighted to welcome an exhibition brought together by our colleagues in the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries celebrating photography from around Portsmouth by local artists. …
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Black history does not end in October
One of the ongoing concerns about awareness months is that awareness and effort to undo prejudice and discrimination is needed every month of the year and not just the one where it receives special focus. So how can we help make racism history?
Expert help for the Humanities returns to the Library! (Wednesday 6 October)
Pop into the Library and get expert help finding information from primary historical sources as diverse as the Chatham House international relations archive, Mass Observation Online (1930s-1999), African-American Communities, political archives covering the Middle East, China and Japan and historical collections delving further back into the life and culture of 19th century Britain. Representatives from our online archive suppliers Gale and AM (formerly Adam Matthew) will share a table in the Library Atrium from 11am – 3pm next Wednesday 6 November.
Get help on finding primary research evidence for such specialist Humanities, Politics, and cultural resources, expert tips from the resource providers, and a great many freebie giveaways!
Chinua Achebe: father of the African novel
Author of ground breaking novels that explore themes of African culture and its wilful debasement and displacement by colonialism, Achebe lectured worldwide co-founded and directed Nigerian publishing houses won the Man Booker International Prize and Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize and received honorary degrees from over 30 universities worldwide.
Upgrading our computer network
We are upgrading our computer network to ensure we continue to provide reliable, high speed computing facilities this week (between 28-31 October). This means that over the next few days, we will need to make small clusters of student computers …
Stuart Hall: thought leader, patron of sociology and the arts
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1932, Hall graduated from Oxford University to become Director of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Professor of Sociology at the Open University, television presenter, journal editor, President of the British Sociological Association, and chair of two arts organisations. He famously coined the term ‘Thatcherism’.
Temporary toilet block closure
The ground floor toilets nearest the staff offices at the rear of the building (shown at the bottom of the diagram) are the ones that will be closed this Saturday
The toilets in the ground floor corridor towards the rear of the Library building will be temporarily unavailable on Saturday 26 October while contractors clean the water tanks supplying this toilet block. Happily, these were the least attractive of all our toilets, …
Paul Gilroy: the man who rewrote the history of migration
A prominent and award-winning scholar, Gilroy rewrote the established narrative of global history, overturning romantic stories of witness, religion and the mythical ethnic homogeneity of Britain before the slave trade, challenged existing notions of trade, and breathed new life into the humanist tradition by involving philosophy, sociology, musicology, literature, history and critical theory into his study of the humanities and extending his arguments into scholarly and political discourses on race and anti-racism.
