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 Africa’s environmental history.
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In Celebration of Women and Wanderlust: Exploring the Mediterranean
March 7, 2023
Dr. María Sebastián Sebastián 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.
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Surviving the Arctic Alone: The True Story of Iñupiat 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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A Kitchen Time Capsule: The Lady Sedley, and her recipe book, 1686
August 16, 2022
What can we learn from written recipes of the past? “The Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686” is a 17th-century manuscript from the Royal College of Physicians containing handwritten medical receipts, or recipes, that are primarily plant-based and provide a glimpse into the role of women in the history of medicine.
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From ‘Banishment’ to ‘Cool’: a chairborne exploration of a ‘forgotten archipelago’ – Santa Catarina, Brazil
February 4, 2022
Read MoreDr Alicia Colson shows how archival maps contain important information for historical investigation. Dr Colson’s research is displayed in a creative story map to visually show her findings. “Maps are not only mirrors of reality but tools for understanding the reality of places at different points in time from the perspective of a range of individuals and nationalities”.
Dr. Alex Hall on the BAAS archive: “A fabulous new resource”
July 8, 2021
Read More“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.”
Finding the animals hidden in the Royal Geographical Society’s archives
May 17, 2021
Dr. Catherine Oliver, a geographer working at Cambridge University, is an RGS/WDA fellow doing research on animals in the Royal Geographical Society’s archives. She has been blogging about her discoveries and how they intersect with her work on vegan geographies (her upcoming book is titled Veganism, Animals, and Archives). 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.
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Search and Browse Seven Centuries of Manuscripts With Automated Text Recognition
May 12, 2021
We are excited to announce that Wiley Digital Archives 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.
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Coming on February 24: Free UKSG – Wiley webinar
February 2, 2021
Don’t miss this free webinar on February 24 2021, when UKSG and Wiley will bring together a librarian, a researcher, and a society member to share their perspectives and insights on the role of digital primary source materials in teaching and research. The webinar is open to UKSG members and non-members alike.
Advance registration is required. The event will be recorded and all registrants will receive a link to the recording after the session.
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RGS Wiley Digital Archive Research Fellowships 2020-21 Awarded
January 28, 2021
The Royal Geographical Society has awarded the Research Fellowships for 2020-21. Eleven researchers from around the world will have access to Wiley Digital Archives to advance their work on a wide range of subjects, from space flight to fauna, including the effects of colonialism and tourism in Singapore, the multimodal landscape of African urbanisms, an exploration of the early uses of isobaths and contour lines on maps, and other equally fascinating projects.
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