Doing research from home can be difficult, particularly when looking at antiracism in Britain. So we have brought you this thread to highlight some digitised resources that researchers can use from home. #twitterstorians
The Institute of Race Relations’ website contains lots of resources incl a directory of their journal Race and Class – you can read these articles online for free irr.org.uk/publications/
There are some interesting books available to borrow from the National Emergency Library, incl books by Paul Gilroy, and Racism and antiracism: inequalities, opportunities, and policies (1992) archive.org/details/nation…
If you feel like getting your teeth stuck into something complex why not try Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson libcom.org/library/black-…
Black Cultural Archives subject guides provide a brief overview and timeline of key dates, which could be a useful starting point for a new research project or provide an entry into planning future archive trips blackculturalarchives.org/subject-guides
The British Library Sound Archive contains a number of oral history recordings that can be listened to online – including interviews with artists Lubaina Himid and Frank Bowling, and campaigners Ambalavaner Sivanandan and Herman Ousley sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/
The @NHSat70 website contains a growing number of oral history recordings of NHS professionals, including experiences of racism and resistance in healthcare – such as sickle cell anaemia campaigner Dame Elizabeth Anionwu (register for free to access) nhs70.org.uk
If you know of any other resources available online please reply to this thread and help your fellow researchers out!
