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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion

Scope and Content of Guide

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This guide is an introduction to UNSW Special Collections manuscript and rare book sources relating to UNSW strategic themes of equity, diversity and inclusion. The broad topical range includes original materials relating equity, gender studies, human rights, immigration, LGBTQIA+, multiculturalism, poverty and homelessness and other social issues.
 

How to use this guide


The guide is a selective list of resources to get you started. 

Browse entries under Manuscript Collections and Rare Books and follow the links for more detailed descriptions.

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Special Collections holds over 400 manuscript and object collections, more than 13,000 rare books, and delivers online digital resources such as the Australians at War Film Archive.
  • Archival Collections & Objects - Search to identify additional Special Collections manuscripts and objects or Browse to explore the breadth of holdings
  • Rare Books - Find more rare books in the Library Catalogue (refine your results list by Featured Collections > CAN Special Collections to browse our titles)  
  • Digitised Oral Histories - Visit the Australians at War Film Archive (AAWFA) to search across 2000 interviews with Australian service personnel from World War I to Afghanistan

Manuscript Collections

A selection of Special Collections historical and contemporary archival resources can be found relating to these broad headings:


Equality


Human rights


Immigration


LGTBQIA+


Poverty/Homelessness


Women’s rights/Feminism – see also our Australian Women Writers Research Guide


Oral Histories

Search the Australians at War Film Archive to discover interviews relating to a range of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion topics. For example:


Human rights = 1154 results


Poverty = 219 results


Homeless = 60 results


Equality = 804 results


Diversity = 259 results


Minorities = 853 results


Women = 1762 results


Gender = 53 results


Sexuality = 428 results


Homosexual = 267 results


Lesbian = 61 results


Rare Books

Keyword search Special Collections holdings in the Library Catalogue to find published sources on a range of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion-related topics.


Monte Punshon image By Unknown author - https://www.queerarthistory.com/love-between-women/ethel-may-monte-punshon-1882-1989/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=145624689