Surviving the Arctic Alone: The True Story of I帽upiat Heroine Ada Blackjack
December 15, 2022
As the sole survivor of an ill-fated expedition in the 1920s, Ada Blackjack survived the harshness of Wrangel Island alone. Her determination to return home to her son drove her to learn new skills and fend for herself during a time when it was rare for women to work outside the home.
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A Kitchen Time Capsule: The Lady Sedley, and her recipe book, 1686
August 16, 2022
What can we learn from written recipes of the past? 鈥淭he Lady Sedley, her Receipt book, 1686鈥 is a 17th-century manuscript from the Royal College of Physicians containing handwritten medical receipts, or recipes, that are primarily plant-based and provide a glimpse into the role of women in the history of medicine.
Read MoreDr Alicia Colson shows how archival maps contain important information for historical investigation. Dr Colson’s research is displayed in a creative story map to visually show her findings. “Maps are not only mirrors of reality but tools for understanding the reality of places at different points in time from the perspective of a range of individuals and nationalities鈥.
“In my own research, even when I know what I’m after, the time and cost of searching and visiting widely dispersed records can be taxing,” writes Dr. Alex Hall. A science and environmental historian and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Birmingham, Dr. Hall says that “thanks to Wiley and Jisc’s collaboration, there is a fabulous new resource – saving my time and bringing powerful new insights to the history of science.”
, a geographer working at Cambridge University, is an RGS/WDA fellow doing research on animals in the Royal Geographical Society鈥檚 archives. She has been blogging about her discoveries and how they intersect with her work on vegan geographies (her upcoming book is titled ). Her posts on archival evidence of the use of animal labour in expeditions, friendships between geographers and animals, interspecies conflicts, and geographers mapping animal territories make good reads.
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Dr. Sarah L. Evans, from the Royal Geographical Society, writes about Finding Women in the Archives.
When a wildfire threatened Sequoia National Park, UC Merced Librarian Emily Lin worked with national parks curator Ward Eldredge to relocate the archive containing 130 years of the park鈥檚 history.