The PGM Ambassadors have created a fabulous display in the Heritage Hub display space, just outside the Park Building café. If you are in Portsmouth, I thoroughly recommend checking it out! For those of you learning at a distance, you can view much of the display material on the Library website. It’s definitely worth a look!
7 February is Charles Dickens Day, when we celebrate Portsmouth’s most famous Victorian author. Born to a Victorian Portsmouth in 1812, the son of a naval payroll clerk, Charles Dickens was prodigiously industrious and despite an interrupted schooling, enjoyed a …
The theme for Children’s Mental Health Week 2025 is focus is know yourself, grow yourself and aims to equip and empower children and young people across the UK to embrace self-awareness and explore what it means to them. It aims to help children and young people to build resilience, grow and develop through increasing self-awareness and expressing their emotions.
The Holocaust proved what can happen given the right conditions, with a compliant people under the sway of a demagogue. It reminds us of the ever-present threat of tyranny, discrimination and persecution that we must resist every day. It is up to each of us to challenge language, assumptions and behaviours that have no place in an inclusive society.
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!
The Society for Nautical Research is delighted to announce the schedule for a series of fortnightly online lectures for its members highlighting new and ongoing research being undertaken by members of the society and its affiliations. The series aims to promote research into economic, social, political, military and environmental aspects of nautical history, drawing on British, European and international experience.
Would you like to have a passion for history and literature or want to pursue a career in the heritage and museum sector? Don’t miss a fabulous opportunity to volunteer at Gods House Tower in Southampton. Gods Tower are curating …
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A classic British summer day of wind, cloud and rain did not stop the smiles and fun at the ‘Celebration of our International Students and Staff’ which took place on Gun House Green in the beautiful Ravelin Park here at …
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Today, we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings that marked the beginning of the end for the Nazi regime and the turning point of the Second World War, LGBTQ+ Pride Month celebrating sexual and gender diversity around the world, and Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month celebrating the rich cultural diversity and history of this marginalised community.
D-Day was the start of the overthrow of the Nazi killing machine. The D-Day invasion represented a major turning point in the Allied battle against the Nazis that had systematically isolated and exterminated millions in an attempt to purge Nazi occupied territories of Jews, Roma, the disabled, LGBTQ+ people and other marginalised groups by forces including many LGBTQ+ people who were forced to conceal their sexual orientation from their own comrades.
Early English Books Online are changing platform at the end of July. Our trial of the new platform is now live and available, and ProQuest are offering a webinar to help you get to grips with the new platform on 25 April. Spread the word and sign up now!
