A round-up of the bizarre and brilliant of the web corralled by the University of Portsmouth Library.
Folklore, religions, and mythologies speak of many kinds of ghosts. Usually, at this time of year, in the run up to Christmas, I can be found blogging about the three ghosts of Christmas past, present and future in Charles Dickens’ Christmas morality tale “A Christmas Carol”. This year, with assignment deadlines sometimes looming on the far side of the holidays, I wanted to warn you of the dangers of another kind of ghost – the ghost writer.
Global are organising a free quiz with tasty treats over at Sparks Community Centre in Fratton from 6 pm next Thursday 19 December. Global throw a good party, so unless you’ve got a better offer already, be sure to book your place on Eventbrite!
Come late late January, Ebook Central will be moving from using pdf to epub format ebooks. This will make these ebooks easier to read and navigate, display better on more devices, and allow publishers to build interactive audio and video into their devices.
Happy Disability History Month 2024!
Spanning the period including International HIV/AIDS Day, International Day of People with Disabilities, and International Human Rights Day, Disability History Month seeks to redress the severe and entrenched inequalities experienced by all those with disabilities, including people who develop illnesses as diverse as cancer and HIV, who are neurodiverse, or develop mental health problems.
The Film and Media Research Group (School of Film, Media, and Creative Technologies) is delighted to welcome director Arlen Harris to facilitate a screening of Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know (Daniyal Harris-Vajda and Arlen Harris, 2023). …
Film screening this Wednesday – ‘Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know’ Read more »
The cycle marking scheme returns to the plaza between the Library and Ravelin Sports Centre from 1.30 – 3.30 pm next Thursday 28 November. Bring your bike and get it security tagged and registered on the Immobilize register to make …
November is Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month. You might have seen the adverts encouraging men to grow a moustache for “Movember” to signal in an overtly macho way their support for men’s mental health. Men are three times as likely …
Award winning children’s book publisher Lantana have just announced that The Invisible Story has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2025 in the illustration category, which is fantastic news for this wonderful book. The Invisible Story was the subject of our recent exhibition relating …
The Invisible Story nominated for prestigious award Read more »
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. …
“Our Portsmouth” photography exhibition now showing Read more »
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?
