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This past week, 70 professional curators of Judaica collections from many different countries convened at the library for a three-day intensive learning experience led by professionals.
Globally and historically, Eurocentric beauty ideals have been steeped in privilege informed by imperial histories and racial hierarchies. Reinforced by the global beauty industry, circumscribed notions of beauty are pervasively implicated within racist capitalist and patriarchal frameworks. The prominent study of the identity politics of hair and skin colour/shade in the United States has often overshadowed experiences elsewhere.
British Library releases vast trove of digitised 19th-century newspapers to bring stories of fugitives to life Little is yet known of Bussa, the man behind the largest slave revolt on Barbados in 1816, but information about his life before this uprising could well lie in the columns of contemporary island newspapers. So too may further clues about what happened to Benebah, a pregnant black woman who stood up to a police officer on the island in 1834, after slavery had officially been abolished. The missing history of these two rebels, along with many other enslaved peoples’ stories, are hid...