To mark Black History Month, we’ve put together a list of books and journal articles which provide new and critical insights into the area. Each article has been made Free to Read throughout October.
The Art School in the Attic
An Exhibition History of Victorian Leeds by Rebecca Wade reveals the origins of Leeds’ permanent cultural institutions and the influential networks that shaped the city’s relationship with fine and decorative arts, industry and the sciences. To mark the publication of this new book, the author explores a small but significant space that held the first … Continue reading
Liverpool University Press Announces Participation in Path to Open Initiative
Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce its participation in a new Open Access (OA) monograph scheme, Path to Open, in partnership with JSTOR.
Introducing ‘Sociolinguistic Methodologies at a Crossroads: Innovations from the Postgraduate Community’: A Modern Languages Open Special Collection
This month sees the launch of a new special collection on Modern Languages Open that rethinks methodological approaches in sociolinguistics since Covid 19. The collection includes cutting-edge contributions from the postgraduate community that explore novel ways of applying research methods in a rapidly evolving research climate. Here, the co-editors of the collection, Nicola Bermingham, Stefania Tufi, and Claire Nance explain the research context and thinking that informs this collection of essays.
The colonised curriculum? Lessons from Black Victorian history…
Today, activists, students and educators are working to redress the many colonial legacies in our education systems. As well as challenging statues and monuments to colonial ‘great men’, decolonising approaches to education query the canon and traditional syllabi, inequalities of experience predicated on racism, and diversity measures that so often fail adequately to address them. … Continue reading
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