The History Faculty Library, Oxford graduate trainee, Laura Johnson, spent her project on creating a guide to oral history resources for British and Irish history. She has now published it and it is accessible at http://ox.libguides.com/oralhistory. This newly launched LibGuide aims to introduce the subject and acts as a portal to oral history resources available [...]
Following yesterday's launch event (http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2502/) for the JISC-funded project, Navigating Eighteenth-Century Science and Technology, the complete archive of the Board of Longitude with related material from Cambridge University Library and the National Maritime Museum, is now available online. The collection and links to introductory videos, essays and other resources can be found here: http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/longitude See [...]
The Science Museum in London has announced the opening of Information Age, a ground-breaking new communications gallery that will open in September 2014. Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the gallery will celebrate key developments in communication technologies over the last 200 years and incorporate a diverse range of personal stories to reveal how our [...]