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International Women’s Day 2026

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This March, to mark International Women’s Day 2026, the History Faculty Library’s book display shines a light on women whose lives, labour, and influence have too often been overlooked. The theme, untold and forgotten female histories, invites us to look beyond familiar names and stories, and to consider how history is shaped by power and access. These books challenge us to ask why so many women have been left out of historical narratives.

Among the works on display is The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court, which uncovers the political, cultural, and personal influence of women navigating the male-dominated world of seventeenth-century England. Similarly, Immaculate Forms: Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies explores how women’s bodies have been understood, controlled, and represented across time, revealing the deep connections between gender, medicine, and social power. Together, these texts show how women’s experiences were central to historical change, even when they were excluded from official accounts.

We are also highlighting HFL’s online materials such as Thanks for Typing: Remembering Forgotten Women in History, dedicated to recovering the uncredited female contributions throughout history. From court insiders to clerical workers, these books and resources remind us that history is full of hidden lives waiting to be rediscovered.

This International Women’s Day, we invite you to explore the display, reflect on whose stories have been marginalised, and consider how recovering women’s histories can reshape our understanding of the past.

Books featured on the display above, from left to right:

Legenda : the real women behind the myths that shaped Europe by Janina Ramirez | Medieval women religious, c. 800-c. 1500 : new perspectives by Kimm Curran and Janet Burton | I am not afraid of looking into the rifles : women of the resistance in World War One by Rick Stroud | Femina : a new history of the Middle Ages, through the women written out of it by Janina Ramirez | The graces : the extraordinary untold lives of women at the Restoration court by Breeze Barrington | Not just a man’s war : Chinese women’s memories of the war of resistance against Japan, 1931-45 by Yihong Pan | La Duchesse : the life of Marie de Vignerot : Cardinal Richelieu’s forgotten heiress who shaped the fate of France by Bronwen McShea | Women, witchcraft and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World by María Jesús Zamora Calvo | Public faces, secret lives : a queer history of the women’s suffrage movement by Wendy L. Rouse | Immaculate forms : uncovering the history of women’s bodies by Helen King | Bringing home the White House : the hidden history of women who shaped the presidency in the twentieth century by Melissa Estes Blair.

These e-book resources can be accessed via SOLO, which will require an Oxford University SSO login. Alternatively, they can be used through a Bodleian reader account for external readers who can access the material by connecting to the Bodleian Libraries Wi-fi network or logging on to the reader PCs within the library.

LGBT+ History Month 2026

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The official LGBT+ History Month logo for 2026.

With the start of February comes LGBT+ History Month in the UK, which was founded by the LGBT+ education charity Schools OUT in 2004. You can learn more about their history and work on their official website.

Here in the Radcliffe Camera, we have put together a display to celebrate this important period of observance, focused on the theme of ‘Science & Innovation’.

Our display covers multiple aspects of this theme: spotlighting the lives of queer scientists and other intellectuals, showcasing their work, as well as considering the harm and other discrimination LGBT+ people have faced in the medical world and beyond due to bias and prejudice or even just inadequate research. Therefore, our selection features varying topics.

You will find several biographies, as well as compiled letters, first-hand accounts and other writings from queer voices in these relevant spaces. There are stories from AIDS activists, collections of medical and social research over the years, and the published works of LGBT+ writers.

Examples include: gay rights activist Frank Kameny, an astronomer who was fired for his sexuality during the Lavender Scare; marine biologist Rachel Carson, the nature of whose relationship with Dorothy Freeman has been debated as a result of them destroying many of their letters before her death, and the contents of the correspondence that remains; Florence Nightingale and Leonardo da Vinci, two widely renowned figures who are believed to have been queer in some way.

Of course, most historic figures can only be speculated as LGBT+, given that the times and societies they lived in did not have the same standards and definitions we use today. Until recent years, it would be rare to find records of anybody identifying with specific queer terminology.

Interpretations are made based on their words and actions and relevant cultural context, and it’s important to remember that we can appreciate and identify with those that were likely queer without needing to assign strict labels. We encourage readers who are interested to have a look into these fascinating people themselves!


Books featured on the display above, from left to right:

Florence Nightingale : the woman and her legend by Mark Bostridge | The New Negro edited by Alain Locke ; with an introduction by Arnold Rampersad | Turing : pioneer of the information age by B. Jack Copeland | The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall ; with an introduction by Maureen Duffy | Silent Spring by Rachel Carson ; with an introduction by Caroline Lucas | Let the record show : a political history of ACT UP New York , 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman | How to survive a plague : the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS by David France | Before AIDS : gay health politics in the 1970s by Katie Batza | The Transgender Studies Reader 2 edited by Susan Stryker and Aren Z. Aizura | I’ll stand by you : selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner ; edited by Susanna Pinney | Leonardo : the artist and the man by Serge Bramly | Generation on fire : voices of protest from the 1960s : an oral history by Jeff Kisseloff

Online resources.

Accessing the following e-resource materials will require a Single-Sign-On Login for Oxford University members. External readers will need to log in with their Bodleian accounts while using the Bodleian libraries network (either with a device connected to the Bodleian Libraries Wi-Fi network or using the reader PCs within the library).

The Remedy : Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care edited by Zena Sharman
Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality by Simon LeVay
Sally Ride : Breaking Barriers and Defying Gravity by Jackie Pérez
The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist by Ben Barres
Gay is Good : The Life and Letters of Gay Rights Pioneer Franklin Kameny
Evolution's Rainbow : Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People by Joan Roughgarden
Current Research on Bisexuality edited by Ronald C. Fox
The SAGE Encyclopaedia of Trans Studies: 2 edited by Abbie E. Goldberg and Genny Beemyn

International Day of Education – 24th January 2026

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24th January marks International Day of Education, with the theme for 2026 focusing on AI and education. To mark the occasion, our HFL book display highlights some historical research on access to education, and the development and dissemination of knowledge. Among these books are historical studies on segregated education, the impacts of war on learning, and AI technology in the classroom.  

Alongside these historical perspectives, these books invite us to consider how today’s debates around artificial intelligence fit into longer histories of educational change and technological innovation. From the printing press to digital learning, new tools and perspectives have continually reshaped education and how we share knowledge. By exploring these books, we can place contemporary discussions about AI in education within a broader historical and social context of equitable access to quality education.

Books featured on the display from the top left:

“The impact of the First World War on British universities : emerging from the shadows” by John Taylor | “Scholars and sultans in the early modern Ottoman Empire” by Abdurrahman Atçıl | “Education and empire : children, race and humanitarianism in the British settler colonies, 1833-1880” by Rebecca Swartz | “The history of education under apartheid, 1948-1994 : the doors of learning and culture shall be opened” by Peter Kallaway | “Histories of scientific observation” by Lorraine Daston | “The men and women we want : gender, race, and the progressive era literacy test debate” by Jeanne D. Petit | “Education in Britain : 1944 to the present” by Ken Jones | “Jim Crow moves North : the battle over northern school desegregation, 1865-1954” by Davison M. Douglas | “In her hands : the education of Jewish girls in tsarist Russia” by Eliyana R. Adler | “The new empire of AI : the future of global inequality” by Rachel Adams | “The scientific life : a moral history of a late modern vocation” by Steven Shapin | “Brown v. Board of Education : a civil rights milestone and its troubled legacy” by James T Patterson | “Education and fascism : political identity and social education in Nazi Germany” by Heinz Sünker |

These e-book resources can be accessed via SOLO, which will require an Oxford University SSO login. Alternatively, they can be used through a Bodleian reader account for external readers who can access the material by connecting to the Bodleian Libraries Wi-fi network or logging on to the reader PCs within the library.

Disability History Month 2025

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This year, the official theme for Disability History Month is “Disability, Life and Death.” This theme addresses concerns about the legislation being considered in parliament regarding assisted suicide and how it could be used against disabled people. Instead, as explained by the DHM website, it should be the responsibility of our society to properly accommodate disabled people to be able to live their lives to the fullest. They also address the history of ideas that have attacked disabled people’s right to life, including the history of eugenics and the sterilisation or mass murder campaigns that it led to.

From the 20th of November through December, a collection of History Faculty Library material will be displayed on this topic in the Upper Gladstone Link of the Radcliffe Camera. In addition, a selection of relevant e-resources have been listed below. Please click on the book cover pictures to be taken to the SOLO catalogue record for each resource. For further reading on the subject of disability history, please check out our LibGuide by clicking here.

Books featured on the display from the top left:
“War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race” by Edwin Black | “Disability in Eighteenth Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment” by David Turner | “The Routledge History of Disability” edited by Roy Hanes | “Ramping Up Rights: An Unfinished History of British Disability Activism” by Rachel Charlton-Dailey | “The Problem of Mental Deficiency: Eugenics, Democracy and Social Policy in Britain c.1870-1959” by Mathew Thomson | “Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell” by Paul Lombardo | “Death and Deliverance: ‘Euthanasia’ in Germany c.1900-1954” by Michael Burleigh | “Medical Films, Ethics and Euthanasia in Nazi Germany: The History of Medical Research and Teaching Films of the Reich Office for Educational Films– Reich Institute for Films in Science and Education, 1933-1945” by Ulf Schmidt | “Treatment Without Consent: Law, Psychiatry and the Treatment of Mentally Disordered People Since 1845” by Phil Fennell | “A Historical Sociology of Disability: Human Validity and Invalidity from Antiquity to Early Modernity” by Bill Hughes | “Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and its Empire c. 1800-1914” by Esme Cleall | “A History of Disability in England: From the Medieval Period to the Present Day” by Simon Jarrett.

Accessing these e-resource materials will require a Single-Sign-On Login for Oxford University members. External readers will need to log in with their Bodleian accounts while using the Bodleian libraries network (either the Bodleian Libraries Wi-fi network or using the reader PCs within the library.)

Book cover for "The Staff of Oedipus: Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece" by Martha L. Rose. White text on a grey illustration of Oedipus seated, with his staff and a woman crying at his feet. The highlights of the illustration are in an orange-toned cream rather than white.
Book cover for "The Good Death: Nazi Euthanasia on Trail, 1945-1953" by Michael S. Bryant. Alternating white and orange text overlaid on a black background. Behind this, an illustration of men in long coats having a discussion stand in the top left corner. Underneath them, distressed people stuck in square-shaped holes in the floor hold their faces in their hands.
Book cover for "Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany" by Horst Biesold. Navy and Orange blocked background, with black text in the centre. Underneath the text, an ink illustration of a group of skeletal people with a hand shape made up of many individual hands crosses diagonally on top of them.
Book cover for "Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook" edited by Shaun Grech and Karen Soldatic. White text on a background of modulated colours in red, orange and purple.
Book cover for "Disability, Liberation and Development" by Peter Coleridge. Gold text on a photographic background, that has been manipulated to a green hue. A n older woman dressed in a sari helps a child read a book. Another child stands next to them, also holding a book
Book cover for "Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics" by Jess Whatcott. Black text set to the left on a painted abstract celestial background. A large round yellow shape underlays the text, green-blue at the edges. Behind it, a dark navy background with spots of white. Underneath both of these, layers of orange, white and purple streaks in different gradients. Overlaying all of this are graphite-looking sketches of plant matter and symbols.

Black History Month 2025

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This month we are celebrating Black History Month! This years theme is “Standing Firm in Power and Pride”, which aims to highlight those people and communities who have resisted racism, lead social change, and stood firm in their pride for the Black community in Britain.

Cherron Inko-Tariah MBE, the Editor in Chief of the Black History Month UK Magazine, wrote in this years issue that “The need to stand firm is especially clear against a backdrop of rising nationalism and systemic inequalities… Yet the story of power in Black history is not only about struggle — it is also about resilience and pride.” To read more of Inko-Tariah’s thoughts, and learn about Black History Month, go to their website, here.

Our physical display takes material from the History Faculty collection and tackles a range of eras, with a focus on resistance, liberation in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Books on the display above, from left to right:

Making the revolution global : black radicalism and the British socialist movement before decolonisation by Theo Williams | Police power and black people by Derek Humphry | Black for a cause– not just because : the case of the “Oval 4” and the story it tells of Black Power in 1970s Britain by Winston N. Trew | Slaves to fashion : black dandyism and the styling of black diasporic identity by Monica L. Miller | Ambivalent affinities : a political history of Blackness and homosexuality after World War II by Jennifer Dominique Jones | There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The cultural politics of race and nation by Paul Gilroy | We were there by Lanre Bakare | Britons through negro spectacles by A.B.C. Merriman-Labor | Black voices on Britain : selected writings edited by Hakim Adi | Black England : a forgotten Georgian history by Gretchen Gerzina | Rhodes must fall : the struggle to decolonise the racist heart of empire by the Rhodes Must Fall Movement (Oxford) | A black boy at Eton by Dillibe Onyeama | Black Liverpool : the early history of Britain’s oldest Black community, 1730-1918 by Roy Costello | The struggle is eternal : Gloria Richardson and black liberation by Joseph R. Fitzgerald | Black Tommies : British soldiers of African descent in the First World War by Ray Costello | The motherland calls : Britain’s black servicemen & women, 1939-45 by Stephen Bourne | The other special relationship : race, rights, and riots in Britain and the United States edited by Robin D.G. Kelley and Stephen G.N. Tuck

Accessing these e-resource materials will require a Single-Sign-On Login for Oxford University members. External readers will need to log in with their Bodleian accounts while using the Bodleian libraries network (either the Bodleian Libraries Wi-fi network or using the reader PCs within the library.)

As part of Black History Month, Oxford University will be holding their annual lecture, this year given by Dr José Lingna Nafafé on the topic of Lourenço da Silva Mendonça early abolitionists. Please check out the website here for more information and to book tickets.

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

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First observed in Haiti on August 23rd 1998, this remembrance day reflects on the lives of the victims of the Atlantic slave trade, as well as the institutional machinations that perpetrated it. In doing so, this project reveals the depths, the causes, and the continued legacy of ramifications that find their roots in this atrocity.

In accordance with this, a display featuring History Faculty Library material relevant to this topic has been arranged in the Upper Gladstone Link of the Radcliffe Camera for perusal. Alternatively, there is an e-book collection to browse through at the bottom of this page, please scroll down and click on the book covers to be taken to the SOLO record of each resource.

Books on the display above, from left to right:
“Maroon Nation: a History of Revolutionary Haiti” by Johnhery Gonzalez | “Slave Religion: The ‘Invisible Institution’ in the Antebellum South” by Albert J. Raboteau | “The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775-1865” by James J. Gigantino II | “The Slave’s Cause: a History of Abolition” by Sinha Manisha | “Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation” by Kris Manjapra | “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family’s Keepsake“ by Tiya Miles | “Black Ivory: a History of British Slavery” by James Walvin | “Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America” ed. Damian A. Pargas | “Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America’s Coastal Slave Trade” by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie | “Spain and the Abolition of Slavery in Cuba, 1817-1886” by Arthur F. Corwin | “Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Colour in the Americas” by David B. Gaspar and Darlene C. Hine | “Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery” by Deidre Coleman | “Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World” by Agnes I. Lugo-Oritz and Angela Rozenthal | “Deep Like the Rivers: Education in the Slave Quarter Community, 1831-1865” by Thomas L. Webber


Accessing these e-resource materials will require a Single-Sign-On Login for Oxford University members. External readers will need to log in with their Bodleian accounts while using the Bodleian libraries network (either the Bodleian Libraries Wi-fi network or using the reader PCs within the library.)

Book cover for "She is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialised Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World" by Dannelle Gutarra Cordero. Gold and grey text on a white background with an illustration of a black woman carrying a white child in the middle.
Book cover for: "Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp" by J. Brent Morris. Text overlaying a digital illustration of a couple wading through water with foliage all around them.
Book cover for "Slavery at Sea: Terror Sex and Sickness in the Middle Passage" by Sowande' M. Mustakeem. White text overlaying a digital illustration of a ship on a blood-red sea backed by grey storm clouds.
Book cover for "Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection" ed. T.M. Devine. Text on a brush-textured navy and black background with a pencil drawing in the middle of captives being loaded onto a ship.
Book cover for "Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South" by Deborah Gray White. Text on top of a Sepia tone painting of a black woman wearing an apron standing on a porch doorway.
Book cover for: Junteenth: The Story Behind the Celebration by E. T. Cotham Jr. Text on red background with a photograph of a group of men in formal dandy attire holding musical instruments above it
Book cover for "Slavery in the North: Forgetting History and Recovering Memory" by Marc H. Ross. Text overlaying a patchwork-style illustration of a mansion with a collection of multi-coloured coffins in front of it
Book cover for: "Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery and the Legacy of Margaret Garner ed. M. E. Frederickson and D. M. Walters. Text above a portrait of a black woman wearing a white hair covering.

The National Maritime Museum and Queen’s House under Royal Museums Greenwich will be holding their annual exhibition with a range of talks and activities on the 23rd of August for Slavery Remembrance Day. Click here for more details on the itinerary.
In addition, this date coincides with the anniversary of the opening for the International Museum of Slavery in 2007, a part of the collective of National Museums Liverpool. Which, in partnership with the black community of Liverpool, participates in events for Slavery Remembrance Day. There are a range of in-person events and online resources, click the link here for details on this.

South Asian Heritage Month 2025

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From the 18th July to the 17th of August, we are marking South Asian Heritage month at the HFL. SAHM was set up to celebrate South Asian identity and history in diaspora communities in the UK.

This display aims to explore a variety of backgrounds within diaspora communities, as far as is possible with our current physical collection. We highly recommend you check out our online reading list below, as it provides work on a variety of topics we do not currently have in the library itself.

Explore how the South Asian diaspora shaped the sound of BBC Radio, in Liam McCarthy’s book online, or how South Asians made modern Britain the country it is today through our physical display.

Accessing these e-resource materials will require a Single-Sign-On Login for Oxford University members. External readers will need to log in with their Bodleian accounts while using the Bodleian libraries network (either the Bodleian Libraries Wi-fi network or using the reader PCs within the library.)

Historical Musicals Display!

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As we head into the Summer Vacation, we’ve decided to do a light hearted display theme. Inspired by the viral success of Rachel Zegler’s West End performance in Evita, in which the Hunger Games star portrays the former First Lady of Argentina, Eva Peron, we have selected a variety of books from the History Faculty collection with connections to musicals. Most are currently running in London!

See if you can guess which musicals inspired the selected books!

From left to right, top to bottom, we have:

  1. ‘The Vietnam War From the Other Side’ by Ang Cheng Guan.
  2. ‘The Revolution of 1905 and Russia’s Jews’ by Stefani Hoffman.
  3. ‘Six Wives’ by David Starkey.
  4. ‘The Price of Greatness’ by Jay Cost.
  5. ‘Argentina: A Modern History’ by Jill Hedges.
  6. ‘Gay Berlin’ by Robert Beachy.
  7. ‘Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism’ by Richard L. Bushman.
  8. ‘The Age of Revolutions’ by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal.
  9. ‘Let the Record Show’ by Sarah Schulman.
  10. ‘Protesting About Pauperism’ by Elizabeth T. Hurren.
  11. ‘Marching to the Fault Line’ by Francis Beckett and David Hencke.

And for our ebook selection:

Titanic
Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures ...

In the meantime, we hope everyone has a wonderful summer vacation!

Pride Month Display

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Banner reading "pride month" in alternating rainbow colours. The banner features an illustration of a bumblebee hummingbird with its feather colours altered to resemble the Gilbert Baker rainbow pride flag

This Pride month, the History Faculty Library has arranged a display commemorating the history of LGBT+ communities throughout the world. This display aims to address diverse experiences throughout the LGBT+ spectrum, as well as across many different cultures and time periods. The display can be browsed in the Upper Gladstone Link of the Radcliffe Camera, in addition to the collection of e-books which can be accessed by clicking on the book cover pictures further below.

Explore the activism of black members of the LGBT+ community and their relations to the civil rights movements post-WW2 with Jennifer Dominique Jones’ book “Ambivalent affinities,” featured in the on-shelf display or read analysis about the desires between ancient women of the greek and roman worlds with Sandra Boehringer’s book on the e-book display below, plus many more.

Check out the events that are being held by Oxford University for pride by clicking here and scrolling to the second sub-section, or head to Oxford Pride to see the itinerary of events throughout Oxford and how to get involved.

photograph of a display of 14 books along with 2 posters promoting the e-books linked further down in this article. The books, from the top left are: 1) As good as marriage : the Anne Lister diaries, 1836-38 / [edited by] Jill Liddington. 2) Unmaking sex : the gender outlaws of nineteenth-century France / Anne E. Linton. 3)The Stonewall Riots : a documentary history / Marc Stein. 4)LGBT Victorians : sexuality and gender in the nineteenth-century archives / Simon Joyce. 5)Unsuitable : a history of lesbian fashion / Eleanor Medhurst. 6) Ambivalent affinities : a political history of Blackness and homosexuality after World War II / Jennifer Dominique Jones. 7) Surpassing the love of men : romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present / Lillian Faderman. 8) On queer street : a social history of British homosexuality, 1895-1995 / Hugh David. 9) No bath but plenty of bubbles : an oral history of the gay liberation front, 1970-73 / Lisa Power 10) Not a passing phase : reclaiming lesbians in history 1840-1985 / Lesbian History Group 11) James VI and I and the history of homosexuality / Michael B. Young. 12) Ambiguous gender in early modern Spain and Portugal : inquisitors, doctors and the transgression of gender norms / François Soyer. 13) Same-sex sexuality in later medieval English culture / Tom Linkinen. 14) Before homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic world, 1500-1800 / Khaled El-Rouayheb.

Accessing these e-resource materials will require a Single-Sign-On Login for Oxford University members. External readers will need to log in with their Bodleian accounts while using the Bodleian libraries network (either the Bodleian Libraries Wi-fi network or using the reader PCs within the library.)

Book cover for "Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome" by S. Boehringer featuring a painting of three young women
Book cover for "The Libertine's Friend: Homosexuality & Masculinity in Late Imperial China" by G. Vitello featuring an ink illustration of two men in a forest
Book cover for "Not Straight, Not White: Gay Black Men from the March on Washington to the AIDs Crisis" by K. J. Mumford featuring white text on a black background with a photograph of a man standing with his back to the viewer.
Book cover for "Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940" by G. Chauncey featuring an illustration of two men in suits wearing top hats and smoking sigars on a pastel yellow background darkened in the corners to convery illumination.
Book cover for "Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World" edited by N. S. Rabinowitz and L. Auanger featuring black and white freize illustrations with a red border.
Book cover for "Trans Historical: gender Purality Before the Modern" edited by G. LaFleur, M. Raskolnikov and A. Klosowska featuring a stylistic illustration of a woman with red hair in a black dress
Book cover for "Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan" by S. Chalmers featuring a kanji character on a teal background
Book cover for "TransAntiquity: Cross-dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Anicent World" It features a photograph of a relief wall carving of four figures on a black and blue background.

Mental Health Awareness Week

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From the the 12-18th May, it is Mental Health Awareness Week. This year, we have focused our online resources on the present, and even the future of mental health, on top of our usual historical offerings, particularly focusing on groups underrepresented in the HFL’s physical collection.

The physical display in the Upper Gladstone Link.

We’d also like to take this chance to remind students during Trinity Term of the mental health resources on offer to them through the University and the Bodleian Library.

The University has a range of resources, covering topics such as academic wellbeing and bereavement. Find out more here: Supportive resources | University of Oxford

And did you know that there is a wellbeing display in the Old Library? Located on the Mezzanine next to the Upper Reading Room, the display has a range of books from self-help to poetry.

Accessing these e-resource materials will require a Single-Sign-On Login for Oxford University members. External readers will need to log in with their Bodleian accounts while using the Bodleian libraries network (either the Bodleian Libraries Wi-fi network or using the reader PCs within the library.)