History Day

Items

• 19th century Post Office workers records go live on the Addressing Health website
  This page introduces the Addressing Health Data Mapper project which offers unique insights into the health and working lives of workers in the 19th and 20th centuries
• 75 Years of Human-Computer Interaction and its Impact on Society
  Our report From Punch Cards to Brain Computer Interfaces: 75 Years of Human-Computer Interaction describes how HCI evolved from the early years of computing in the 1950s, when the subject was dominated by a small number of mainframes, to today’s world where we talk about Graphical User Interfaces and interactive displays used by billions of people.
• A brief history of national postal strikes
  This blog post explores the history of the UK's most impactful postal strikes
• AGRA Video
  Discover more about AGRA. Who has are we and what we do.
• Autograph Letter Collection
  An extraordinary collection of letters to Women’s Service Library (now The Women’s Library) of prominent correspondents dating from 1851 to 1975.
• British LGBTQ+ History Podcast Series, 1800 - Present Day
  This podcast series, produced by the Historical Association, focuses on UK LGBTQ+ history from 1800 until the present day. Episodes feature Dr Matt Cook and Dr Sean Brady of Birkbeck, University of London, Professor Sally R Munt of the University of Sussex and Dr Emma Vickers of the University of Reading.
• Exposure and Contrast exhibition now open!
  Head curator, Indy Bhullar talk about the current exhibition
• Exposure and Contrast: The Exit Photography Group
  LSE Library’s Autumn/Winter exhibition derives from a collection of photographs and interviews held in the archives. The group responsible for this collection were called Exit and they came together in the 1970s to bear witness to the changes and challenges impacting Britain’s inner cities. 30,000 photos and 100 hours of interviews were edited down and released in the book ‘Survival Programmes: In Britain’s Inner Cities’ published in 1982 by Open University Press.
• George Lansbury Archives
  Personal papers and correspondence covering many political and social issues of the early 20th century.
• 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.
• HIVstory Project
  The NHST's HIVstory is an innovative three year outreach programme that travels around the UK informing a diverse selection of community groups about the history of the AIDS pandemic through an exciting programme of events, including: Exhibitions Presentations Heritage Training Opportunities Volunteering Film Screenings Inspiring Arts based projects
• In the Footsteps of Exiles
  This online exhibition has been curated as a virtual history walk around the University of London's Bloomsbury campus, based on a series of guided walks carried out by staff of Senate House Library. The exhibition can also be used as the basis for a self-guided walk.
• LGBT+ at the Linnean Society
  A number of Linnean Society staff, curators, and Fellows share their experiences of being LGBT+ in science
• NHS 75: Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service
  The history of the NHS in our collections
• 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).
• Prejudice & Pride: exploring LGBTQ lives at the National Trust
  This research project – a collaboration between the National Trust and RCMG – enriched and informed the Trust’s 2017 programme that formed part of the nation’s commemoration to mark 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality.
• Queer letters from Victorian England
  How Victorians were able to send coded messages in the post.
• Remembering the East London Gay Community
  The East London Gay Community supported one another and made sure to have a lot of fun! Regular activities ranged from a helpline and coffee evenings to discos and fundraisers. Founded in 1978, the ELGC ran regular events like these for over three decades. Newham Heritage Centre has a significant collection of their newsletters, as revealed in this blog by Heritage Officer, Cas Bradbeer.
• Sanitary Ramblings in Bethnal Green by Hector Gavin, 1848
  Sanitary Ramblings is a graphic description of the dreadful living conditions for many of the residents of Bethnal Green in 1848, written by Hector Gavin (1815 – 1855), a Scottish physician. Gavin details the environments people lived in, street by street and how these situations are reflected in their health and mortality.
• The Barbarous Murder of Wigan Lane: A Story of Victorian Crime and Punishment
  The Church of St Wilfrid in Market Place, Standish, is the starting point of the discovery of a 'barbarous murder' in 1840. Local historian Jim Meehan shares what he's uncovered.
• The Hall-Carpenter Archives: LGBT+ collections at LSE
  Explore our archives and other sources relating to LGBT+ history. LSE Library has been home to the Hall-Carpenter Archives since 1988. It’s an extensive collection of archives, ephemera and printed material documenting the development of gay activism in the UK since the 1950s. The Hall-Carpenter Archives at LSE continues to grow and evolve. We welcome all who wish to visit and use this unique and historically valuable resource.
• 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
• The Suffrage Movement
  This blog post explores the women's suffrage movement within the Postal Museum's collections
• Unfolding Time: the Medieval Pocket Calendar
  Fewer than thirty concertina-fold almanacs are known to exist, this exhibition brings a group of them together for the first time and sets them alongside treasures from Lambeth Palace Library.