History Day

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• "I am the farm worker going home at evening": gender fluidity, rural landscapes, and the Women's Land Army
  A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities. For LGBTQ+ History Month, library graduate trainee Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army.
• 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.
• Caroline Amy Hutton: a forgotten archaeologist and librarian
  This blog is about Caroline Amy Hutton, who was acting librarian of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies,during WWI
• Diana Kimber and Louise Darche: leading lights in New York nursing
  A chance find in a newly catalogued book led to the story of two leading lights in nursing teaching in New York in the late 19th century: women who devoted their lives to their work and to each other.
• Exquisite Corpse: How did corpses become beautiful? An iconographic wild ride from the danse macabre to Corpse Bride.
  This post was written by Lena Szalewska and Arianna Dalla Costa, Graduate Library Trainees at The Warburg Institute Library, for History Day 2024.
• For What Reasons the Murder Was Done: the Destruction of Constance Maynard's Diaries
  A detailed look at the deposit file of Constance Louisa Maynard papers, the first principal of Westfield College and a queer woman, and what it reveals about what is missing from the collection.
• 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 Spotlight: Mid-Century Women Artists from the Charles Hasler Collection
  This blog post spotlights and celebrates the work of three women artists who feature in the Charles Hasler collection at the University of Reading Special Collections. All three artists, Eileen Mayo, Barbara Jones and Enid Marx, were very active in the mid-twentieth century, and are notable for developing their own original and innovative styles and interests, and applying their creative talents to a wide variety of different art forms.
• Leafy legacies: revealing the stories preserved within Kew Gardens’ Library and Archives
  Read about a past exhibition at Kew Gardens' Library & Archives, which looked at the wealth of staff histories within the Library and Archive collections.
• Marvellous Maureen
  Written by Chris Corbett, Community Engagement Officer, Teesside Archives
• Postmistresses in the Victorian Post Office
  This blog post explores the lives of Victorian postmistresses and gifts they received on their retirement
• Revealing LGBTQ+ history through Archives Hub
  Archives Hub explores a fascinating range of archives relating to LGBTQ+ history and collections.
• SOAS Library Book Display Video: 'Beyond a Ban: Queer Voices Uncensored'
  In celebration of the Queer History and Heritage Trail, this video showcases how SOAS Library recently promoted its Gender Studies collections through a banned book display: 'Beyond a Ban: Queer Voices Uncensored'.
• Storytelling from the Kate Adie Collection - University of Sunderland
  The Kate Adie Collection has now been catalogued as a result of funding from Archives Revealed. This has allowed us to discover, uncover and tell the story of Kate's career in journalism, witnessing and reporting from some of the key global events of the second half of the twentieth century. The stories Kate uncovered and which her archive tells are already inspiring research, community projects and interest in archives and recent history.
• The Diary of a Regency-Era Governess
  Ellen Weeton (1776-1850) was born and raised in Upholland, near Wigan and later worked as a school-mistress and governess. She was the author of one of the most remarkable accounts of a woman’s life from the regency period, and we keep her diary at Archives: Wigan & Leigh. Here, Rosie shares some stories from her dramatic life.
• 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 mysteries behind a mediaeval manuscript of “women’s ills”
  This blog explores The Sekenesse of Wymmen by Gilbertus Anglicus, a mediaeval manuscript from the 1450s.
• The Suffrage Movement
  This blog post explores the women's suffrage movement within the Postal Museum's collections
• The Women’s Library collections
  This page explores the highlights of the Women's Library collection at LSE
• Up the Lycabettus – lovely sunset: Amy Maud Hicks’ diary to Greece
  The blog explores the journey to Greece of Amy Maud Hicks, a well known suffragette, in 1902 when she was an archaeology student.
• Women Artists of the General Post Office
  This gallery explores the works of twelve of the General Post Office's resident poster artists
• Women Rediscovered: Denbigh, Gwyneth/ Ann Owen, The Mothers
  This video tells the story of two women's experiences of postpartum psychosis
• Women’s History Month 2025: Celebrating Women’s Voices in the IHR Collections
  This blog was written by Sarah Admans, graduate trainee librarian at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) Wohl Library 2024/25. It has been curated in celebration of Women’s History Month 2025.