History Day

Items

• 80 years on: the V weapon attacks on Britain
  This blog will look at how V1 and V2 rockets were used against British soil eighty years ago and their impact on local communities and ordinary people’s lives.
• All work and all play: unconventional sciences at the Warburg Library
  This blog post was written by Kella Lawrinson and Simone Monti, Graduate Library Trainees at the Warburg Institute as part of a series of posts on the theme of ‘Human Discovery: Experiencing Science’ for History Day 2022.
• Commemorating D-Day: The Library Collections at IWM
  This blog will look at the commemoration of D-Day through materials held in the Imperial War Museums’ Library collection.
• Exploring Berlin as a Cold War City in IWM’s Research Room
  Blog writtern by Annabel Sheen, a second year Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD student at Imperial War Museums and the University of Bristol, who details her experience using the museum’s Research Room and archive.
• Historic View of Illustrated London Periodicals
  A moving snapshot of the archives of The Illustrated London News, The Illustrated War News, The Graphic & The Sphere circa 100 years ago.
• History from an Era of Illustrated News
  A handpicked selection of 80+ articles from the archives of The Illustrated London News, The Illustrated War News, The Graphic & The Sphere spanning royal, society and military history.
• Northern Ireland: Living with the Troubles
  This blog post was written by Kaili Smith and Charlotte Willsmore, Research Support Librarians at IWM London, for History Day 2023 and explores library material relating to the IWM’s exhibition Northern Ireland: Living with the Troubles (May 2023- January 2024).
• Resistance, Rights and Refuge: Britain and Chile 50 years after the Chilean coup
  September 2023 marks 50 years since the violent military overthrow of Chile’s democratically elected left-wing Popular Unity government. An exhibition curated by Tanya Harmer and Gloria Miqueles at LSE Library explores the importance of marking this anniversary at a time when democracy around the world is, once again, under threat.
• The Forgotten Voices of Indian Women in the War
  This video provides a brief introduction to the important, but overlooked, role that Indian women played during the Second World War.
• The Gathering Storm: Insights from the Lord Ironside Papers
  2024 thus marks the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives 60th anniversary. In those intervening years we have gathered the personal papers of over 800 senior defence personnel, and we thought this birthday year was a great opportunity to showcase just some of the items from the collection. This blog spotlights the Lord Ironside Papers from this collection.
• The Last Revolutionary? The Life,and Legacy of Thomas Wintringham (1898-1949)
  By John Concagh, the 2024 MA Modern History intern in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
• Their Finest Hour Interactive Map
  Their Finest Hour's newly launched interactive map allows you to follow 100 personal journeys through the Second World War, across Britain and the globe. From military service and internment to evacuation and everyday life on the home front, each journey reveals a unique perspective on life during the Second World War. Use the keyword filters to tailor your exploration, and adjust the date slider to focus on specific moments in time. View photographs, letters, and personal objects linked to each story, trace individuals' journeys across the globe, and explore wartime geography using historic overlays and Second World War-era map boundaries. Each point on the map opens a story panel where you can explore a personal account in more detail and access a direct link to the full contribution in the Their Finest Hour Online Archive, which holds over 2,000 stories and 25,000 digitised items shared by members of the public between 2022 and 2024.
• War Memoirs of a Nonentity: Creating Archives
  2024 thus marks the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives 60th anniversary. In those intervening years we have gathered the personal papers of over 800 senior defence personnel, and we thought this birthday year was a great opportunity to showcase just some of the items from the collection. This blog spotlights the Vlieland, Charles Archibald's personal memoirs “DISASTER IN THE FAR EAST 1941-2” from this collection.