The LSE has launch its new digital library. Containing 500,000 pages of digital content freely available to search, browse and download, it is a significant step in furthering access to the LSE's collections to anyone who wants to use them. The site includes digitised and born-digital items from LSE Library’s flagship collections such as The Women's Library, the Hall-Carpenter Archives and the Charles Booth Archive. It includes a mix of copyright free and protected materials. The new platform provides access to the full range of nationally significant collections available on the previous digital Library, as well as exciting new resources and a suite of enhanced user features.
Of particualr interest to photographic historians is a digitised version of Street Life in London, photographs documenting women's suffrage and up to the Greenham Women Everywhere project of 2019-2021. Amongst the prints papers I came across by chance are the Census of Production Reports 1907-1993 which include thos relating to photographic manufacturing,
A new video guide has been made to help users and ensure that search and discovery of Digital Library content is now easier than ever.
https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk
For more information contact: Henry Rowsell, Digital Library Manager, LSE Library, e: h.r.rowsell@lse.ac.uk
Image: World Graphic Press Limited, Christine Pankhurst, Trafalgar Square, London, 1908. From The Women's Library collection.
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