The first newspaper published within a prison by an incarcerated person was Forlorn Hope, in 1800. Since then, more than 450 newspapers from U.S. prisons have been published. Some are still in publication today such as Angolite and the San Quentin News.
This collection brings together hundreds of these periodicals from across the US into one collection. Representing various institutions there is special attention on women-only institutions.
Black Periodicals: From the Great Migration through Black Power include periodicals that depict the various political, literary, and cultural forms that Black Americans used to advance their vision in the ongoing struggle for liberation and dignity. Magazines and newsletters from women’s organizations, religious groups, labour organizations, and more reveal a diversity of ideological orientations, strategic methods, and aesthetic modes among Black voices throughout the mid-twentieth century.
This collection also includes selected titles from Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean that reflect the global dimensions of the Black freedom struggle and pays particular attention to publications originating in the early 20th century and interwar era, foregrounding connections between this period and the Civil Rights movement and beyond.
The "HIV, AIDS & the Arts" collection, part of Reveal Digital’s Diversity and Dissent fund, aims to create a vital resource for understanding the multifaceted roles that art has played in responding to, reckoning with, and remembering the AIDS crisis. This digital collection is dedicated to exploring how art has served as a form of activism, a medium for healing and bearing witness, and a vehicle for remembrance, rage, grief, and sparks of joy.
The materials will highlight the continuous struggle to gain attention for health issues, secure necessary support, and extend community. The collection will preserve approximately 75,000 pages and items of primary sources, encompassing a wide range of art forms. These will include, but are not limited to, sheet music, manuscripts, playbills, production notes, visual art, and personal papers.
Nkoda is a digital sheet music app providing access to over 100 thousand publisher editions of sheet music from a wide-range range of classical and contemporary composers, including musical theatre and modern pop music.
King's username and password required for access.
Users need to download the Nkoda app to a personal device to view content. This is currently unavailable on King's devices.
The Nkoda Windows app can be downloaded here. The version for Mac here. Versions for Android and iOs can be found in the Google and Apple app stores.
The Policy Commons 2025 Open Collection is an initiative to rescue and preserve materials from government organisations facing the removal of public information and data - reports, blog posts, videos, and podcasts. Coherent will archive, assign permanent unique identifiers, and index the materials for discovery through Google Scholar and academic databases. Each item will be enriched with detailed metadata - and made openly available to the public.
The collection is intended to serve as a scholarly bridge from the extensive history of student protest in the United States to the study of today’s vibrant, continually unfolding actions. In the interest of sensitivity toward the privacy of activists on the streets and in organising communities today, the collection does not depict contemporary protests. Materials intended for inclusion are wide-ranging in nature: circulars; leaflets; fliers; pamphlets; newsletters; campaign materials; protest literature; clippings; periodicals; bulletins; letters; press releases; ephemera; and meeting, demonstration, conference, and event documentation.
The collection will capture the voices of students across the great range of protest, political actions, and equal-rights advocacy from the 20th and early 21st century United States. The primary sources intended for inclusion will be broad-based across time, geography, and political viewpoint — from the conservative to the anarchist.
