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Reclaiming Spaces: CUSU and GU Welfare and Women’s Officer’s campaigns
By Claire Sosienski Smith & Christine Pungong, (welfare@cusu.cam.ac.uk & womens@cusu.cam.ac.uk) My experience as a student at Cambridge centred around the feminist activism I chose to get involved in, as part of the Women’s Campaign. I learned that feminist work is legacy work in the physical spaces I shared and created with women and non-binary people.…
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Who do I think I am? – My experience with AncestryDNA
By Stephanie Brown (@StephEmmaBrown) Thanks to programmes like Who Do You Think You Are? there has never been more interest in family history. Since the turn of the century, family historians have started to look beyond traditional records such as the census, and birth, death, and marriage indices to new scientific methods. DNA tests are now…
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Daydreaming in Linoleum: Postwar Advertisements and Domestic Fictions
By Kate Schneider Every era has material nova that signal the newness of the present age. In the 1930s, it was the shine of early plastics such as Bakelite and celluloid that made them attractive modern surfaces. But in the 1950s and 1960s, domestic daydreams about ideal homes were played out in the medium of…
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Angela Davis in conversation: legacies, lessons and reflections on resistance, justice and hope
By Mobeen Hussain (@amhuss27) and Aoife O’Leary McNeice (@aolmcn) We were both lucky enough to attend two events with the revered black communist scholar and activist Professor Angela Davis in March and April. The first was held at the Southbank Centre in London for International Women’s Day as part of the Women of the World festival with the…
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The History of Advertising Trust: preservation, management, and marketing in modern Britain
By Alistair Moir (Archive and Library Collections Manager, https://www.hatads.org.uk/.) The History of Advertising Trust (HAT) is a nationally accredited archive service established in 1976 to preserve the heritage of the UK advertising industry and make it available for study and research. Today the HAT archive is the most comprehensive collection of British advertising and marketing communications in…
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