For anyone interested in the history of archives and record-keeping.
Susan Marie Martin deposited The Shawlies: A study of early neoliberal ‘gender-fication’. The Street Trading Act, 1926, modern gender-fication, and the implications for Cork’s women street traders in the group
Social History of Archives on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 1 day agoFor centuries Cork’s Shawlies, working-class women, survived by trading on public streets. My study explores how the first Irish Free State government, and Cork’s local authority, limited the rights of poor women to earn by subsistence trading with The Street Trading Act, 1926. The government insisted this would regulate street trading. In pra…[Read more]
Igor Rocha deposited O REGIMENTO INQUISITORIAL DE 1774: MODERNIZAÇÃO E DIRIGISMO CULTURAL NOS TRIBUNAIS DE FÉ NO REFORMISMO POMBALINO in the group
Social History of Archives on Humanities Commons 5 months agoThis paper analyzes the 1774 Portugal Inquisition’s Regiment and its link with the cultural interventionism that marked the Pombalist reformism, whichstarted at the second halfof 18th century. These are allthe policiesthat influenced the public, social, cultural and religious institutions of Portugal and its colonies, based in…[Read more]
Olalekan Adigun deposited The Political Consequences of the Protests against Neo-Liberal Reforms in Nigeria: The Case of OccupyNigeria Movement in the group
Social History of Archives on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week agoThis paper analyses the mechanisms, outcomes, and consequences of the Nigerian protest movement using longitudinal qualitative research. To go about this, the paper looks at the protests in the context of neo-Liberal reforms, the essential trigger of the movement, its objectives, and its achievements are described. The movement started on January…[Read more]
Peter Webster deposited Digital contemporary history: sources, tools, methods, issues in the group
Social History of Archives on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks agoThis essay suggests that there has been a relative lack of digitally enabled historical research on the recent past, when compared to earlier periods of history. It explores why this might be the case, focussing in particular on both the obstacles and some missing drivers to mass digitisation of primary sources for the 20th century. It suggests…[Read more]
Anne Donlon started the topic Call for submissions: JITP special issue on teaching & research with archives in the discussion
Social History of Archives on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoThis CFS for a special issue of the Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy might be of interest to this group:
As an open-access journal comprised of educators, scholars, and librarians deeply committed to studying how knowledge is produced, preserved, and circulated, the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy is thrilled to a…
