Diversity & Inclusion Allies Blog

This page hosts blog posts written by the ARA Diversity and Inclusion Allies.

The ARA Diversity and Inclusion Allies are a group volunteers who organise around the principles of improving diversity and inclusion across ARA and the wider record-keeping community. Our aim is to work with the ARA Board to promote best practice in relation to diversity and inclusion across the sector, forging new paths for positive change. Find out more here.

2024 Blog posts

2023 Blog Posts

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UK Disability History Month: Accessibility and Archives: Engaging with the Deaf Community using the Archive resources of Historic Environment Scotland
UK Disability History Month: Accessibility and Archives: Engaging with the Deaf Community using the Archive resources of Historic Environment Scotland
UK Disability History Month: We Can Take Pictures (Revisited)
UK Disability History Month: We Can Take Pictures (Revisited)
UK Disability History Month: Accessibility and Archives: Deaf Londoners in the 1660s
UK Disability History Month: Accessibility and Archives: Deaf Londoners in the 1660s
UK Disability History Month: Accessibility and Archives: “I thought that there was no deaf and dumb but me”
UK Disability History Month: Accessibility and Archives: “I thought that there was no deaf and dumb but me”
UK Disability History Month: Accessibility and Archives: “Travels and Adventures”
UK Disability History Month: Accessibility and Archives: “Travels and Adventures”
Accessibility and Archives: “Beyond experiment or cure”
Accessibility and Archives: “Beyond experiment or cure”
Accessibility and Archives: Using asylum archives to help people who live with mental health issues
Accessibility and Archives: Using asylum archives to help people who live with mental health issues
Accessibility and Archives: “Mad, Innocent or Criminal?”
Accessibility and Archives: “Mad, Innocent or Criminal?”
Accessibility and Archives: “Reasons to be cheerful”?
Accessibility and Archives: “Reasons to be cheerful”?
Accessibility and Archives:  A Handsome Testimonial
Accessibility and Archives:  A Handsome Testimonial
Accessibility and Archives:  Caroline Crachami (1815-1824) and the Importance of Remembering
Accessibility and Archives:  Caroline Crachami (1815-1824) and the Importance of Remembering
Accessibility and Archives: Working while disabled - Part Two
Accessibility and Archives: Working while disabled - Part Two
Accessibility and Archives: Working while disabled. Part One
Accessibility and Archives: Working while disabled. Part One
Accessibility and Archives: Adapting Our Present to Preserve Our Past 
Accessibility and Archives: Adapting Our Present to Preserve Our Past 
Accessibility and Archives: Being recruited while disabled - Part Two
Accessibility and Archives: Being recruited while disabled - Part Two
Accessibility and Archives: Being recruited while disabled - Part One
Accessibility and Archives: Being recruited while disabled - Part One
Accessibility and Archives: DigiCreative Heritage
Accessibility and Archives: DigiCreative Heritage
Traces of South Asia: Curating the Gaps
Traces of South Asia: Curating the Gaps
New approach to providing information on inclusive cataloguing from the Inclusive cataloguing group, ARA Diversity and Inclusion Allies
New approach to providing information on inclusive cataloguing from the Inclusive cataloguing group, ARA Diversity and Inclusion Allies
Accessibility and Archives: “better than anyone else”
Accessibility and Archives: “better than anyone else”
Accessibility and Archives: Combining Archaeology and the Archival Record
Accessibility and Archives: Combining Archaeology and the Archival Record
Accessibility and Archives: “Consider the Astronaut”
Accessibility and Archives: “Consider the Astronaut”
Accessibility and Archives: “The eye of man hath not heard”
Accessibility and Archives: “The eye of man hath not heard”
Accessibility and Archives: Overcoming outdated vocabulary
Accessibility and Archives: Overcoming outdated vocabulary
Accessibility and Archives: “I look… from the inside”
Accessibility and Archives: “I look… from the inside”
Accessibility and Archives: Telling Sarah Biffin’s story ethically
Accessibility and Archives: Telling Sarah Biffin’s story ethically
Accessibility and Archives: “Leave off discourse of disability”?
Accessibility and Archives: “Leave off discourse of disability”?
Decolonising the Archive: A Caribbean Approach
Decolonising the Archive: A Caribbean Approach
Decolonising outreach: Stand in the gaps
Decolonising outreach: Stand in the gaps
Decolonising in practice: the strangers’ case
Decolonising in practice: the strangers’ case

In this, the sixth in a series of blogposts from the Inclusive Cataloguing Working Group of the Diversity and Inclusion Allies, Philip Milnes-Smith discusses decolonising catalogues in a contemporary organisation without direct entanglement in empire.