History Day

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• Stories from Lincoln’s Inn Fields: The Flower Family
  This blog is a short story of the influential Flowers and their strong connection to the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
• Stories of the Internet from the pioneers who made it happen
  Looking through our archive we can map many of the internet’s significant developments from initial ideas to tests as well as its commercialisation, initial uses and benefits and risks to society. Pioneers Vint Cerf, Peter Kirstein and Jim Norton have all been recorded by AIT about their work on packet switching and the emergence of the internet and A Michael Noll on its commercialisation. We also have interviews with internet entrepreneur Eva Pascoe, who encapsulates the pioneering spirit of the first internet teachers and users and with Professor Bill Dutton, who was the founding director of the Oxford Internet Institute, a research centre focusing on the societal opportunities and challenges posed by the internet.
• 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.
• Teesside Archives
  Teesside Archives collects, catalogues and preserves records and documents relating to the areas of Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool, and Redcar & Cleveland, and makes them accessible for research.
• Ten Minute Talk & Tea: A Short History of Diabetic Healthcare
  Join our Visitor Welcome Assistant Mel as she gives a ten minute talk about the history of diabetic healthcare.
• Ten Minute Talk & Tea: International Nurses Day
  Our Archivist Sophie Denman gave a ten minute talk for International Nurses Day. The talk discusses nurse training in St John Ambulance and focuses on some of the prominent figures in St John Ambulance’s nursing History.
• Ten Minute Talk & Tea: Mine's a Pint of Ale: The History of Drinking at St John's Gate
  Our Events & Partnership Lead Zachariah Young gave a ten minute talk on the history of Drinking at St John's Gate. The Talk starts in the Medieval Period and brewing in the priory and goes all the way to the modern day iteration of the Jerusalem Tavern.
• 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.
• Ten Minute Talk & Tea: Trowel and Error - The Archaeology of the Priory of St John & St John’s Gate
  In this talk, our Collections Inventory Assistant Immie Meade shares some of the archaeological objects that have been found at the Priory of St John and St John’s Gate in Clerkenwell, including a closer look at objects which are normally not on display at our museum!
• Texts, Scribes and Transmission: Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond
  This open access volume brings together studies offering insights on different aspects of manuscript cultures nurtured by Ismaili communities until well after the widespread dissemination of printed books.
• 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 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 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 Digital Archive of the International Bomber Command Centre
  The IBCC Digital Archive is an extensive repository of the personal stories of those who served and suffered during WWII, including personal memorabilia and one of the biggest collections of eyewitness testimonies.
• The Egypt Exploration Society
  We are the UK’s leading charity and British International Research Institute supporting and promoting Egyptian cultural heritage since our founding in 1882. Today, we facilitate research projects around the world from our offices in London and Cairo, including access to our unique collections. The Society relies almost entirely on donations from our international membership and the wider public to fund our work and run an extensive educational programme of publications and training, as well as events to convey the results to interested audiences. Our mission is to support and promote Egyptian cultural heritage, because we envisage a world where the cultural heritage of Egypt is preserved for posterity.
• The Evolution debate through the RCS England Library
  The Library holds various published materials that bear witness to the evolution debate of the second half of the 19th century. Some of the protagonists of this mental and moral battle were fellows, while the College constituted a focal point for scientific and intellectual circles.
• 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 Gardens Trust
  The Gardens Trust is the only UK national charity dedicated to protecting and conserving our heritage of designed landscapes. We campaign on their behalf, undertake research and conservation work, and encourage public appreciation and involvement. Through the national network of County and Country Garden Trusts, we have access to people and local expertise throughout the country.
• 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 Goldsmiths' Company
  The Goldsmiths’ Company’s Library & Archive is the UK’s largest dedicated reference library for jewellery, silversmithing and hallmarking. Open from Tuesday to Thursday in Goldsmiths’ Hall, it’s free to use and available to everyone.
• 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 Groundnut Scheme: a colonial failure
  The ill-fated Tanganyika Groundnut Scheme was planned and put into practice in the mid-twentieth century, coming to an abrupt end in 1951. The story of its collapse is a powerful example of why top-down, colonial approaches to agricultural development often struggled to produce the desired results. It raises important questions about why the voices of local agricultural workers and communities were often ignored, and how this contributed to the Scheme’s demise. This online exhibition has been devised to make sense of scattered holdings throughout The MERL collection. Together these groundnut and East Africa-related farming resources can help shed light on this infamous project and its failings. This exhibition was compiled in partnership with undergraduate History students from the University of Reading, including Charles Clemens, Rebekah Fry, Katie Crook, Jakob Longden, and others. We are also grateful for the support of Atenchong Talleh Nkobou from the School of Agriculture, Policy, and Development who provided support and expertise, and to Tim Jerrome and Dr Ollie Douglas for editorial and technical input. You can watch the 1948 film, 'The Groundnut Scheme at Kongwa' via the University of Reading's Virtual Reading Room.
• 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 History of IT – A Timeline
  Significant Events in the history of IT and Tech in the UK