Online Training & Resources
University of Cambridge initiatives, including support, networks, and training, see the University’s Equality and Diversity pages: www.equality.admin.cam.ac.uk/.
Online Training (Cambridge users only)
Equality and Diversity Essentials
Understanding Unconscious or Implicit Bias
Other Links
University Equality and Diversity
Cambridge University Students’ Union
University Staff Networks (including LBGT+, Women Staff, Parents and Carers)
Breaking the Silence – preventing harassment and sexual misconduct
Human Resources policies and procedures (including maternity, paternity, adoption, parental leave, shared parental leave, returning carer’s scheme, compassionate leave)
Collaborating with Men (ground-breaking research conducted by Murray Edwards College to establish how men and women can work together to transform workplace culture barriers to women’s progress into leadership positions. )
The Black Advisory Hub hosts a range of resources to support students, including academic, welfare, financial and career support.
CUSU produced many guides including ‘Disabled Students’ 101’ , ‘Trans Inclusion Guide’ etc.
Cambridge Decolonisation Hub, recently created by Joe Cotton who is a member of the Race Equality Network committee. If you know about working groups and initiatives working on decolonisation in your faculty that are not on this website, feel free to email Joe, it is very much work in progress.
Slavery, Law and Power in Early America and British Empire project has interesting timelines and maps, as well as the links to
Art & Architecture-related databases & websites:
Colonial Caribbean: CO Files from The National Archives, UK
National Trust: addressing our histories of colonialism and historic slavery
General Databases which contain related information and resources (go to iDiscover Databases A-Z for access):
Art & Architecture ePortal
Artstor
Avery
Bibliography of History of Art
British Periodicals
Cambridge Journals Online
DAAI
Haithi Trust
Heidelberger Historische Bestände
International Bibliography of Art
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Bibliographies - art history
Oxford Very Short Introductions
WorldCat
ZETOC
Watch, Read & Listen
TV David Olusoga’s Black and British https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084ndpt
LISTEN/WATCH Jim Endersby, ‘Gardens of Empire: The Role of Kew and Colonial Botanic Gardens’, Gresham College lecture, 2 December 2019, https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/gardens-of-empire and see https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/botany-trade-empire
RADIO BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time on ‘Imperial Science’, at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p00547b5
ONLINE EXHIBITION 'The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century' https://www.doaks.org/resources/online-exhibits/botany-of-empire
POEM Derek Walcott, ‘The Sea is History’ OPEN ACCESS
BOOK 'Dismantling the Master’s House: Thoughts on Representing Empire and Decolonising Museums and Public Spaces in Practice: An Introduction' OPEN ACCESS
THESIS Stephen Johnston, ‘Mathew Baker and the Art of the Shipwright’, in ‘Making Mathematical Practice: Gentlemen, Practitioners and Artisans in Elizabethan England’ (doctoral thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994) OPEN ACCESS