A round-up of the bizarre and brilliant of the web corralled by the University of Portsmouth Library.
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 …
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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?
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.
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’.
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.
Self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet”, Audre Lorde dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia
Friday 18 October is World Menopause Day. Since 2009, the world has celebrated the changing lives of women and campaigned to break the silence around women’s lived experience of ageing and bodily change and foster a greater awareness of the changes women experience during the menopause and the perimenopause and the support options available.
Here are a few select pics of Library staff wearing red against racism today.
Pick up your free Show racism the red card pin badge from the Library Reception!
bell hooks’ work explored the interaction of sexism, racism and economic disparity. Her seminal work Ain’t I a Woman? was named one of the 20 most influential books published in 20 years. A lifelong activist, hooks insisted that social theory had to speak to and impact the experience of the oppressed to have value: that “our intellectual work will never impact on their lives if we do not move it out of the academy”.
