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Do you hate crowds and find the Library increasingly taken over by folk whose idea of serious study seems to be to treat the Library like a giant coffee shop? You are not alone, but there are still ways to …
Do you hate crowds and find the Library increasingly taken over by folk whose idea of serious study seems to be to treat the Library like a giant coffee shop? You are not alone, but there are still ways to …
February celebrates the formerly marginalised history of lesbian, gay, bi and trans people, who have spent the best part of the past two centuries in obscurity and suffering persecution. Our display this year compares and finds similarities between the oppression …
It’s not impossible (note the double negative)! I felt compelled to write about this topic. Not only did I work in dyslexia support for many years, but I also strongly assume that creativity and neurodiversity are closely related and recognise …
Studying with dyslexia? It’s not impossible (note the double negative)! Read more »
We are continually working to decolonise the library collection and make our resources more diverse so that you can learn from a wider variety of perspectives and cultures. This blog post from SOAS explains why it is so necessary to …
Not our usual blog fayre but it being LGBT+ History Month, Iestyn Edwards’ innovative talk on his recent book “My Tutu Went AWOL” – a prelude to the book by the same name is coming up on 1 March in the …
Sorry this wasn’t posted last week, but better late than never! There’s lots of exciting things going on this LGBT+ History Month. Check out what appeals most to you from the choice below. We’re just putting together our traditional book …
Happy International Women in Engineering Day! Women have traditionally been underrepresented in the science, technology, computing and mathematical professions, yet their contributions have been critical in shaping the modern world, as STEMjobs and IveyEngineering describe. Ada Lovelace invented the fundamentals of programming …
Global Accessibility Awareness Day celebrates all the improvements made to make resources and services available and useful to as many people as possible. All the advances we make in Making resources available in more formats and supporting different ways of …
Today is International Women’s Day! This year the theme is #PressforProgress. It is hard to see what difference an individual can make but like the droplets of water that make up an ocean, together we have the power to reshape the world. …
February is LGBT History Month. Discover one of the hidden sides of History: the Film Society is showing an LGBT film series, there is a drop-in to talk about LGBTQ equality in the UK being organised by Chaplaincy as part …