History Day

Items

• 'Queering the narrative' in the archival records at Bethlem Museum of the Mind
  Looking at the possibilities and perils of investigating same-sex attraction in the historic records of psychiatry.
• AIDS Social History
  This research group documented the history of the disease as it happened and aimed to capture the response of policy makers and charity organisations to the virus. The papers consist of reports and analysis of strategies and policies covering actions of European countries as well as the UK
• 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.
• An Englishman in New York
  An online exhibition charting the life of the diplomat, turned artist and writer Valentine Lawford. Recent additions to Lawford’s papers cast new light on Lawford’s creative collaboration with his partner Horst P. Horst and the life they made together as a gay couple in the mid-twentieth century.
• Antinous in the collection of the Institute of Classical Studies Library
  The blog discusses the books that have been published on Antinous, the lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian
• Archives Portal Europe: the European archival heritage in one click
  Archives Portal Europe allows searches into 1000s of archives from 30+ countries, in 20+ languages, through a simple keyword search - we like to call it the Google of archives. This is a short video presentation of what APE does for #HistoryDay North
• Art, life, love : narratives from the Benedict Nicolson Archive
  Benedict Nicolson (1914-1978) was an art historian and editor of the Burlington Magazine for nearly forty years. Born into an aristocratic but also liberal and bohemian family, and coming of age in the tumultuous interwar period, he encountered unprecedented opportunities and experiences. This display explores Nicolson’s extraordinary life through his archive. Created almost exclusively in a personal capacity, and documenting Nicolson’s relationships with both men and women, the material presents an incredible resource for the study of art history, social history and the history of gender, sex and sexualities.
• Book review: The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
  Archivist Kate Bond reviews a classic group biography of 18th-century scientists like William and Caroline Herschel, whose working papers are held in the RAS Archive
• Catablogue
  The West Yorkshire Archive Service Blog
• Cataloguing 18th and 19th Century Music Scores
  Emma Poole, Library Assistant, writes about her experience cataloguing rare and historical music items.
• Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health
  Mixed media archive collection relating to European Commission project, Concerted Action: Assessing AIDS Prevention Strategies (1988 -1991), and follow-up projects, the aim of which was to provide an overview of the different HIV/AIDS prevention activities. Collection includes 734 posters and 6 boxes of ephemera.
• 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.
• Exploration of the Paul Oppé Library and Archive
  Adolphus Paul Oppé (22 September 1878–29 March 1957) was an art historian and collector with a particular interest in British drawings and watercolours from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His scholarly work, like his collecting, focused on figures such as John Sell Cotman, Alexander Cozens, Francis Towne, Paul and Thomas Sandby and Thomas Rowlandson, and contributed considerably to establishing their reputations as major British artists.
• 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.
• Exploring the Frank Simpson Archive
  Frank Simpson (1911–2002) was a Librarian and amateur art historian with a long-held interest in taste and the collecting of pictures in England in the eighteenth century, particularly from salerooms. The Paul Mellon Centre holds his archive, which includes records from the London office of M. Knoedler & Co., where he worked during the 1950s–1970s. Much of the material in this archive is unique and contains a wealth of information for those interested in the study of provenance, and collections and collecting during the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.
• 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.
• From woodcut to photograph: techniques of book illustration:
  This exhibition explores the history of the development of illustrative techniques from woodcuts through to photographs.
• Gender and Bathing in Antiquity
  This blog was written by Dr Giacomo Savani, an expert in Roman baths and ancient senses, and a recent intern looking at gender histories in the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH).
• 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.
• Introduction to the West Yorkshire Archive Service
  An introductory video to the West Yorkshire Archive Service.
• Leonhard Fuchs’s History of Plants (1542) | Sachiko Kusukawa
  Leonhard Fuchs’s History of Plants, published in 1542, was a landmark in Renaissance book-printing. It contained more than five hundred large woodcuts of plants, accompanied by their morphological description and medicinal uses. Typical of its time, Fuchs’s study was based on a classical work on the medicinal uses of plants by Dioscorides (first century AD). Unusually for its time, Fuchs’s book contained an illustration of the artists that were involved in the production of the images. Fuchs had good reason to be proud of the artists, as they created for him the beautiful illustrations that functioned in multiple ways to aid the study of plants. I will introduce the ways in which illustrations mattered in Fuchs’s History of Plants before having a look at the copy now at the Linnean Society.
• LGBT+ at the Linnean Society
  A number of Linnean Society staff, curators, and Fellows share their experiences of being LGBT+ in science
• LGBT+ History in the European archives
  A collection of documents on LGBT+ history in the archives of Archives Portal Europe
• Mind Matters: neuroscience and psychiatry:
  This exhibition explores aspects of the history of neuroscience and psychiatry from 1800 to 1945, with special reference to the important contributions made by staff of King’s.