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An Englishman in New York
An online exhibition charting the life of the diplomat, turned artist and writer Valentine Lawford. Recent additions to Lawford’s papers cast new light on Lawford’s creative collaboration with his partner Horst P. Horst and the life they made together as a gay couple in the mid-twentieth century.
Diana Kimber and Louise Darche: leading lights in New York nursing
A chance find in a newly catalogued book led to the story of two leading lights in nursing teaching in New York in the late 19th century: women who devoted their lives to their work and to each other.
Papers of Joseph Sonnabend
Dr Joseph Sonnabend, physician, clinical researcher and community activist played a significant role in the AIDS epidemic in the United States. His papers include records from his Greenwich Village private practice from 1980-2000; epidemiology and research on cause and treatment of HIV/AIDs and AIDS activism groups such as AIDS Medical Foundation, Community Research Initiative and PWA Health Group. The archive also contains his earlier research on interferon in England for the Medical Research Council.
Reclaiming a Language: Contextualizing John Eliot’s Genesis
This blog focuses on how both The Eliot Genesis and Bible were used by European colonisers to enact what Indigenous theologian Tink Tinker describes as a cultural genocide. It also highlights the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project.