• Africa: present challenges and past perspectives

    September 4, 2024

    What can the archives show us about climate change, healthcare, and colonization? Increasing temperatures, extreme weather incidents, and fluctuating rainfall patterns in Africa are contributing to issues like biodiversity loss, food security, water shortages, and desertification. Our archives contain a wide range of documentation that explores Africas environmental history.

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  • Dr. Mar穩a Sebasti獺n Sebasti獺n is an architect and art historian. She is a professor at the Universitat de les Illes Balears, at the Department of Historical Sciences and Theory of the Arts. In 2022 she was awarded a Wiley Digital Archive Research Fellowship in collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) to study the depictions of the Mediterranean area made by Margaret M. Hasluck and Emilia F. Noel. Learn more about her experience using the WDA platform to uncover the contributions of these women through their travels.

  • Surviving the Arctic Alone: The True Story of I簽upiat Heroine Ada Blackjack

    December 15, 2022

    As the sole survivor of an ill-fated expedition in the 1920s, Ada Blackjack survived the harshness of Wrangel Island alone. Her determination to return home to her son drove her to learn new skills and fend for herself during a time when it was rare for women to work outside the home.

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  • “In my own research, even when I know what I’m after, the time and cost of searching and visiting widely dispersed records can be taxing,” writes Dr. Alex Hall. A science and environmental historian and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Birmingham, Dr. Hall says that “thanks to Wiley and Jisc’s collaboration, there is a fabulous new resource – saving my time and bringing powerful new insights to the history of science.”

  • , a geographer working at Cambridge University, is an RGS/WDA fellow doing research on animals in the Royal Geographical Societys archives. She has been blogging about her discoveries and how they intersect with her work on vegan geographies (her upcoming book is titled ). Her posts on archival evidence of the use of animal labour in expeditions, friendships between geographers and animals, interspecies conflicts, and geographers mapping animal territories make good reads.

  • We are excited to announce that 51勛圖 continues to lead primary source discovery and analysis technology with Automated Text Recognition (ATR), an AI dedicated to manuscript search and exploration that offers full digital access to handwritten pages documenting seven centuries of the History of Science.

  • Dr. Sarah L. Evans, from the Royal Geographical Society, writes about Finding Women in the Archives.

  • When a wildfire threatened Sequoia National Park, UC Merced Librarian Emily Lin worked with national parks curator Ward Eldredge to relocate the archive containing 130 years of the parks history.

  • The tension between science and belief systems has surfaced many times before during public health crises. Archival material from these periods illuminate much of the push for science to legitimately influence policy and legislature.

  • The unexpected acceleration to virtual learning creates a new urgency to ensure that primary source materials can be accessed remotely for teaching, learning and research.