History Day

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• The story of Gustavus Cornwall
  A 19th century case of criminalisation of homosexuality of Post Office's employee Gustavus Cornwall.
• The Story of STEM at De Montfort University: 1884-Present
  In this online course we share here how a small technical college evolved to become thriving Faculties of Health and Life Sciences (HLS) and Computing, Engineering and Media (CEM).
• The Story, Durham
  The Story offers a gateway to the history of County Durham and its people. Bringing together our diverse collections of records and objects for the first time, The Story charts thousands of years of everyday life in the county. Visit us to explore history from a new perspective with free permanent and temporary exhibitions or join us to research your own story in our state-of-the-art research facilities. You can even create a new story by getting married or registering the birth of your new one here. And when it’s time to take a break, our café offers the perfect place to grab a cuppa and enjoy our beautiful grounds.. Here, fact is more amazing than fiction.
• The Suffrage Movement
  This blog post explores the women's suffrage movement within the Postal Museum's collections
• The very age and body of the time': Shakespeare's world
  This exhibition explores the world in which Shakespeare lived and worked. We feature the types of implements he would have used to write his plays and poems and look at the workings of the London book trade in his day. We examine the political and religious background of Elizabethan and Jacobean England and the literary sources upon which Shakespeare drew.
• The Vindolanda Trust
  The Vindolanda Charitable Trust is an independent charity based in Northumberland, UK. It administers two major Roman sites within the Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage area: Vindolanda Roman Fort & Museum near Bardon Mill, and the Roman Army Museum & Magna Fort near Greenhead. It was founded in 1970 to oversee excavation, conservation, and public engagement of these sites. Excavation has been ongoing at Vindolanda for 55 years and current excavations are taking place at Magna fort as well. New work to collate and explore the Vindolanda Archives started in 2024 and is part of the Trusts wider research programme into the materials it holds in its collection.
• The Women’s Library collections
  This page explores the highlights of the Women's Library collection at LSE
• Their Finest Hour
  Explore over 25,000 newly uncovered objects and stories from the Second World War. From the extraordinary to the everyday, the collection features artefacts and memories that highlight the diverse experiences of all those who lived during this monumental global conflict.
• Their Finest Hour Interactive Map
  Their Finest Hour's newly launched interactive map allows you to follow 100 personal journeys through the Second World War, across Britain and the globe. From military service and internment to evacuation and everyday life on the home front, each journey reveals a unique perspective on life during the Second World War. Use the keyword filters to tailor your exploration, and adjust the date slider to focus on specific moments in time. View photographs, letters, and personal objects linked to each story, trace individuals' journeys across the globe, and explore wartime geography using historic overlays and Second World War-era map boundaries. Each point on the map opens a story panel where you can explore a personal account in more detail and access a direct link to the full contribution in the Their Finest Hour Online Archive, which holds over 2,000 stories and 25,000 digitised items shared by members of the public between 2022 and 2024.
• Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives
  Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives holds outstanding and unique resources on the history of London’s world famous East End. We cover the London Borough of Tower Hamlets which was created from the former Metropolitan Boroughs of Bethnal Green, Poplar and Stepney. Visit us at our Grade II listed library building, that dates from 1860, conveniently located in Mile End. For all our information and updates visit our website and search our online catalogue. Stored on hundreds of linear metres of mobile shelving in our climate-controlled strongroom, the archive collections are spread across a variety of formats, from medieval parchment to digital audio and video. We're here to welcome you if you’re interested in the history of a street or building, tracing your ancestors who lived in the borough, doing a school or college project or just feeling nostalgic.
• Treasures of Teesside Archives Exhibition
  This online exhibition displays a selection of the exciting records we hold.
• TUC Library at London Metropolitan University
  The TUC Library is the major research library for the study of all aspects of trade unions, collective bargaining and labour history, with both historical and contemporary coverage. The emphasis is on Britain, but many other countries are represented, especially Europe and the Commonwealth. The core areas of the collection are the publications of the TUC since its foundation in 1868, reference and historical works on the labour and trade union movement, union publications from the UK and overseas, and documents relating to working conditions and industrial relations in various industries. The collections also contain material collected from the wide-ranging campaigns and policy areas in which the TUC has been involved over the course of its history, including social policy areas such as health, housing, education, unemployment and social security. A major strength of the Library is the large holdings of pamphlets from unions, pressure groups and campaign movements, collected from the 19th century onwards, which have survived here as in few other comparable libraries. Important research collections cover:- union activities, international affairs, labour biography, women workers, strikes, Labour Party and Communist Party. The collections also contain various archive deposits, including the records of the Workers' Educational Association, the Labour Research Department and the personal papers of Gertrude Tuckwell (1861-1951) and Marjorie Nicholson (1914-1997).
• Tudor Acts: Where the Law and Art Meet
  This post is a personal reflection of Philip Green, Collection Care Assistant, on the work he has carried out while auditing the Parliamentary Archives' flat acts.
• Two centuries on: Following the path of Hovell and Hume
• Tyne & Wear Archives
  Based in Discovery Museum in the heart of Newcastle, Tyne & Wear Archives is home to thousands of documents, housed on 20km of shelving, relating to the five local districts of Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead, North Tyneside and South Tyneside. The documents range from the 12th to 21st centuries and include building plans, school, hospital and church records as well as business records, especially those of important local industries such as shipbuilding, engineering and mining.
• UCL Library
  The Newsam Library and Archives at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, holds extensive collections of current and historical materials on education and related areas of social science.
• UCL Press
  Established in June 2015 as the UK’s first fully open access university press, UCL Press is a pioneering publisher of high-quality Open Access books and journals. Building on UCL’s global reputation for scholarly excellence, UCL Press is disrupting traditional academic publishing by ensuring widespread dissemination of research worldwide, free to download online.
• UCL Special Collections
  Everyone can access UCL Special Collections digitally or in person. Our collections of rare, unique and historic archives & books cover themes including history of UCL, education, arts and sciences. The UCL Special Collections team manages an outstanding collection of over 10,000 metres of rare books, archives and manuscripts, dating from the 4th century to the present day.
• UK Data Service
  The UK Data Service is the principal repository for economic, population, and social research data in the UK. As hosts of the largest trusted digital archive of its kind, our expertise in the collection, preservation, and dissemination of quality data is the culmination of nearly sixty years of sustained investment by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the UK’s research data infrastructure. Meticulously curated over this period from trusted data providers including governments, the Office for National Statistics, the ESRC, and diverse other funders and data owners, our digital collection comprises nationally and internationally significant datasets such as the Census, Understanding Society, the UK Cohort Studies, the Labour Force Surveys, the Family Resources Surveys and many others. Pioneers in data curation, data literacy and actively managing long-term access to high quality data, our expertise continues to transform social science research, teaching and learning.
• 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.
• University of Bedfordshire and Flitwick Library
  The Flitwick - A Living History project is dedicated to bringing the history of Flitwick to life. We’re recruiting residents to help develop and manage a ‘Flitwick Living Memories’ website which will include an on-line history of the Town, its people and past events.
• University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) Archive Collections
  The University of Cambridge's museums and collections are for everyone. Together, the eight University of Cambridge Museums and Botanic Garden represent the UK’s highest concentration of internationally important collections outside London. With more than five million works of art, artefacts, and specimens, the collections have supported nearly 300 years of investigation into the world around us. Today, they bring together people from across the world to explore the big questions: from the earliest forms of life to the future of our planet. We work to deepen understanding of our world, inspire new thinking, and address local and global challenges.
• University of Reading Museums and Collections
  Welcome to the University of Reading’s Museums and Collections. From ancient pottery and medieval literature, to the work of Samuel Beckett and the history of rural England, discover and explore the fantastic breadth of our collections.
• University of Reading Special Collections, the Location Register and WATCH
  The University of Reading’s Museums and Collections include Special Collections, Art Collections, The Museum of English Rural Life, and more. The University of Reading’s Special Collections holds over 80,000 rare books and 5 kilometres of archives, the result of more than a century of collecting. The rare book collections range from fifteenth-century incunables to twentieth-century Ladybird books and cover subjects including natural history, science and medicine, and children’s literature. Systematic collecting of publishers’ archives since the 1960s laid the foundation for our nationally significant Archive of British Printing and Publishing. The collections also include local business and politicians’ papers and writers’ and artists’ papers, most notably the world’s largest collection of resources relating to Samuel Beckett. The Location Register has become established as a standard reference source for the study of English literature. It includes information about the manuscript holdings of around 500 British and Irish repositories (from the British Library to small-town museums), and literary authors of all genres (from major poets to minor science fiction writers and romantic novelists). Writers, Artists and Their Copyright Holders (WATCH) is a database of copyright holders for authors, artists, photographers, designers and many more roles in the creative industries. Researched by the team at Reading, WATCH is part of the recommended due diligence process for finding copyright holders.
• University of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives
  Special Collections, Heritage, and Archives (SCHA) comprises of the University of Sheffield Library’s Special Collections and Archives, the National Fairground and Circus Archive and the University’s Heritage Collections. We collect, preserve and provide access to our extraordinary collections.