“The sixth former entering university often has difficulty in adjusting to a new academic and social life. Students at the University of Warwick who have experienced the same problem decided to make this film to help…”
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Archives aLive: Researching Unemployment
Belén talks us through the second session of our widening participation project, Archives aLive, at the MRC. Read about what our school groups got up to & their responses…
Archives aLive: A Widening Participation Project at the MRC
Belén Higueras Vicente, an undergraduate History & Sociology student, talks about the Archives aLive outreach project at the Modern Records Centre…
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Why we need events like “Why Is My Curriculum White?”
The Modern Records Centre recently collaborated with Warwick SU to put on an open education series focusing on issues of racial resistance, including a panel talk discussing ‘Why Is My Curriculum White?’. Maahwish Mirza, the SU Education Officer, blogs about why asking these questions and hosting this series is so important…
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By Any Means Necessary? : Questioning Ideas of Militancy in the Civil Rights Struggle
The debate between militant and peaceful approaches to protest has been, and remains to be, a controversial one. How far is too far? What is ‘necessary’? This seminar at the MRC looked at the Civil Rights struggle in American, focusing on the actions of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers to examine the effects of militant resistance…
