A round-up of the bizarre and brilliant of the web corralled by the University of Portsmouth Library.
On a hot day towards the end of June I was excited to be able to visit Dennis Maps, the largest printer of paper map products in the United Kingdom. The company produces more than two million maps and charts …
Congratulations to all our wonderful graduates! We are so proud of all you have accomplished and wish you every success in your future.
It has taken me until today to fully grasp the meaning of Charlton’s age-old adage, “nothing about us without us”. Since the end of the last millennium, disability and later other oppressed minority groups have demanded a place at the …
The University Library invites you to visit and find out about the wonderful collection Outside in World: Children’s Books in Translation by joining us at one of our upcoming drop-ins.
Discover this prestigious collection of international books that have been translated from their original languages into English. Feel free to bring children to explore the collection and enjoy a children’s storytime event at each of the drop-ins.
Situated near the Library Café, we actively encourage the use of this unique collection to support research and teaching, community outreach, and reading for pleasure.
No two people learn the same way, so everyone benefits from having the right apps to help them study. If you find planning your work is taking longer than actually doing it, you take more in when you listen to something rather than struggling through huge blocks of printed text, you find it easier to work visually, or you simply want to automate the more tiresome aspects of your life, yourself suffering paralysis by analysis when it comes to planning your work, there are some amazing free apps to help you get ahead.
Don’t miss your chance to see Dr Annabel Tremlett’s display in the Library display space looking this GRT History Month on both Roma art and LGBTIQ Roma culture. Don’t miss Annabel’s earlier blog post on her work with local GRT …
Portsmouth and its Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritage Whilst Portsmouth is not always seen as an area where many people from GRT heritages live, in fact, there is an under-recognised history of Romany and Traveller presence in the area, perhaps …
Some of our greatest thinkers and authors have been LGBTQ+. They have offered refreshingly different perspectives on everyday life and many wrote stories and essays that shared their intersectional lived experience as LGBTQ+ women and or people of the global …
There are few times in life when you can make so big an impact with so little effort as voting in a general election but you cannot just turn up and vote. You
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.
