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- Activist archiving in Toronto
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
- 'Badass Librarians' Foil al Qaeda, Save Ancient Manuscripts
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Scholars used donkey carts, boats, and teenage couriers to smuggle a priceless collection out of Timbuktu.
- Bequests
Leaving a social justice legacy Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Many of us have made working for social justice a lifetime commitment. If you are thinking about leaving a legacy for social justice that will live on, you might want to consider leaving a bequest to Connexions in your will.
- Burning History in San Salvador
Destruction of Historical and Human Rights Archives Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 On Thursday, Nov. 14, three armed men broke into the offices of Pro-Búsqueda. The attack on Pro-Búsqueda was not a random crime. We should be worried about what is happening in El Salvador.
- The Case for Grassroots Archives
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
- Connexions Archive seeks a new home
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
- Connexions Library: History Focus Page
Resource Type: Website Published: 2012 Selected articles, books, documents and other resources on historical topics.
- From Cave Paintings to the Internet
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Chronological and Thematic Studies on the History of Information and Media.
- Grassroots archive information sheet
About your archive - collection - resource centre - library Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Connexions is working on a project to help network grassroots archives and collections of materials about activist and radical history. If you have a collection of social justice materials in your basement/locker, etc., and would like to participate in an exploration of co-operative archiving and/or searching for shared space, please fill out this form and email it to Connexions.
- Historical Statistics of Canada
Resource Type: Book Published: 1965
- Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970
Resource Type: Book Published: 1975
- International Historical Statistics: Africa and Asia
Resource Type: Book Published: 1982
- International Historical Statistics: Europe 1750-1988
Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- International Historical Statistics: The Americas and Australia
Resource Type: Book Published: 1983
- Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
- Kill The Messengers
Stephen Harper's Assault on Your Right to Know Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 Ottawa has become a place where the nation's business is done in secret, and access to information - the lifeblood of democracy in Canada - is under attack.
- Librarians and Palestine
An Interview with Vani Natarajan Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Working to preserve Palestinian records and memory in the face of deliberate destruction by Israel.
- Mali: Timbuktu's literary gems face Islamists and decay in fight for survival
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Daring by a dedicated few saved many manuscripts in Mali from Islamists.
- Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future? Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called the battle of memory. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called the memory hole. Peoples history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
- Memory and Repression in El Salvador
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The raid on Pro-Busqueda happened three days after the Salvadorean Supreme Court heard testimony from survivors of a 1982 raid carried out by government forces.
- Royal BC Museum
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Saving past is first step to the future
Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 The archives of southern Sudan are all currently housed in a tent donated by USAid. Many documents have been damaged due to the poor storage facilities. The Rift Valley Institute, a non-profit research group and scholars from Oxford plan to digitize and find a permanent home for the collection in the near future.
- South Africa's short memory
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The migrants so recently attacked in South Africa almost all came from neighbouring countries that paid a high price in death and ruin for supporting anti-apartheid struggles.
- Spuren suchen
Resource Type: Book Published: 1985
- Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 A look at kingdoms that no longer exist and how their presence and disappearance affects history.
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