History Day

Items

• No common appearance - A pathologist of note
  Pioneering pathologist Dr Joan M. Ross won the John Hunter medal for her outstanding contributions to pathological anatomy in 1946, Learn more about this "staunch friend and wise teacher", a true individual who, despite having written a standard textbook in the subject, has thus far not received the same acclaim as other early women pathologists.
• Papers of Professor Kaye Wellings
  This collection of papers consists of three series of archival material principally relating to research undertaken by Professor Kaye Wellings, social scientists and known internationally for her research on sexual and reproductive health. Material includes a mixed photographic collection of HIV/AIDS public education campaigns collected as part of EC funded programme, Concerted Action: Assessing AIDS Prevention Strategies (1988 -1991) and follow-up projects. Also includes UK AIDS press coverage collection, originally created by the Health Education Authority, spanning 1983-1993.
• Paul Joyce Archive : original drawings and papers on G.E. Street and Victorian Gothic Architecture
  Paul Joyce (1934–2014) was an architectural draughtsman and historian with a life-long interest in the work of George Edmund Street (1824–1881), a leading architect of the Victorian Gothic Revival. The Centre holds Joyce’s archive, containing material compiled in the course of his research on G.E. Street and other Victorian architects. The archive is fully catalogued and available for research. This spotlight feature highlights original drawings from the archive and a representative sample of Joyce’s research.
• Peace and Internationalism
  This page highlights LSE Library's collections on peace and internationalism
• Poisons and the development of Toxicology in the 19th century
  A cursory survey of 19th century publications and press testifies to a morbid fascination with poisons and poisonings.
• Poultry against the Pestilence: Early Modern Surgeons’ treatments for the Plague
  During a three hundred year period from the 14th to the 17th century plague physicians, surgeons, and other medical practitioners reprised ancient forms of knowledge, as well as devising innovative treatments for the disease, producing a wealth of textual evidence. Thomas Banbury, this year's HLCE grant holder, has scoured the library for plague tracts and found one of the most outlandish and superstitious-seeming recommendations called the "Live Chicken Cure".
• 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.
• RGS Newcastle 500th Microsite
  Explore our RGS 500th microsite, marking 500 years since the founding legacy of the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle. The site covers all aspects of the school's long history, arranged into ten key themes and featuring images from our archive collections. Find out more about the history of our various sites, our traditions, academic life, sporting heritage, and many other topics.
• Ten Minute Talk & Tea: Missal-aneous Facts
  Join our Collections and Engagement Officer Rachel as she gives a ten minute talk about one of the Museum's most prized objects - the Rhodes Missal. The talk discusses the history of the missal, how it was used, where it came from, and why it is still important to the Order of St John Today.
• The Act of (Not) Eating in the Middle Ages
  This blog post was written by Maisie Brewster, one of the Library Graduate Trainees at the Warburg Institute Library, for History Day 2023 and explores library material relating eating in the Middle Ages.
• The Afterlife of Alchemy in the Warburg Institute Library’s Collection
  This blog explores the iconography of the ‘hermaphrodite’ from its origin in classical myth, to the alchemical works of medieval and early modern Europe.
• The great leveller: humanity’s struggle against infectious disease:
  This exhibition outlines the efforts of various medical practitioners to eradicate a selection of infectious diseases, reflecting the leading role which King’s has long played in medical research and, more recently, in the history of medicine and science.
• 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 Leicester Galleries and its Exhibition Catalogues
  The Leicester Galleries was a commercial art gallery that operated in central London between 1902 and 1977. It was particularly known for exhibiting British and French artists’ work and for promoting the work of leading modernist painters and sculptors. The Centre’s Library holds one-third of the gallery’s entire output of 1,400 exhibition catalogues, donated by Peter and Renate Nahum in January 2020. The collection is fully catalogued and available for research. This spotlight feature highlights some of the key artists and themes promoted by the gallery and illustrates some of the catalogues in the Library’s holdings.
• The printed page
  This exhibition explores the development of the printing press and printing techniques.
• The role of art and design in the Doncaster Rovers Football Museum
  DRFC will celebrate its 150th anniversary in September 2029. We are building a museum collection that chronicles that history. For many years there are gaps in the collection and we know it is likely there will always be very few 'real' physical artefacts to fill them. So we need reproductions and artworks to bring our history to life and share it with our communities. We also want our audience to get involved as artists, crafters and makers themselves. We are starting from close to zero for large chunks of our history, so almost anything which represents those periods of our timeline is valuable at this point. The process also helps spread our message online and in our mobile museum exhibitions. One day we hope to include a gallery in a permanent exhibition space alongside the museum exhibits. For now we will continue to include DRFC-related art as a ‘thing’ in our temporary exhibitions and online.
• 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.
• 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.
• View Everyday Technology Firsts (#TechFirsts) from the collections
  Share your memories, pictures and stories of how new technology has transformed people’s lives on this Padlet or on Twitter, using hashtag #TechFirsts.