Celebrating our collections dating from 780AD to the present day
By Chris Olver, Project Archivist In this blog, our Documenting HIV Epidemic Project Archivist provides a short history of the impact of HIV on Sex Education teaching in schools in the UK, and how the West Sussex charity, AVERT, contributed to educating young people about the risks of HIV and AIDS, using examples from the…
By Chris Olver, Project Archivist The 1st of December is World AIDS Day, the international day dedicated to raising awareness of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This year marks the 36th World AIDS Day since it was launched by the World Health Organisation in 1988. To commemorate this year’s World AIDS Day, our Project Archivist, Chris Olver,…
By Chris Olver, Project Archivist In this post, our project archivist documenting HIV and AIDS archives in the UK gives a short tour of some of the online HIV/AIDS archives in the UK. This is second blog in a series and the first part can be found here. In the course of my work so…
Continue reading ➞ New ways of seeing: independent HIV and AIDS web-based archives
By Chris Olver, Project Archivist In this post, our project archivist documenting HIV/AIDS archives in the UK highlights some of the history of HIV/AIDS sources currently available online. A surprising aspect of my current work surveying HIV and AIDS records in the United Kingdom was discovering how much archival content was available to view online.…
Continue reading ➞ Margaret Thatcher to Geronimo: HIV and AIDS archives available online
By Chris Olver, Project Archivist Until 2020, many people living in the United Kingdom had not experienced living through a pandemic. In a bid to understand Covid-19, many media outlets drew comparisons to the Great Influenza epidemic of 1918-1920, yet it was a pandemic from more recent history which showed how an emerging disease could…
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