History Day

Items

• 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.
• University of Sunderland Library Special Collections
  Our special collections hold a number of unique archives and contain original research materials for many subject areas. These include the NEEMARC Archive of mining unions in the North East of England, The Kate Adie Collection, the Lord Puttnam Collection, The Sidney Pollard Collection, The Quaker Books Collection, and our newest collection, just received, The Hope Winch Collection.
• University of Westminster Records and Archives
  University Records and Archives collects, preserves, and provides access to records created by staff and students of the University and its predecessors. Look at our dedicated Records and Archives website to find out about the collections we hold, learn about our history and how to research on significant themes, how to access the collections and our digitised material and exhibitions.
• Unlocking North East Jewish Heritage
  The Unlocking North East Jewish Heritage project shares key stories of North East Jewish communities, allowing them to be understood in their geographical, social and civic context.
• Unspoken love in the RCP’s archive: four women’s relationships
  For many years, any suggestions of same-sex attractions or relationships were usually minimised in official documentation such as RCP biographies of its fellows. But that doesn’t mean those loves and relationships weren’t there.
• 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.
• Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens
  Ushaw is home to a broad collection of fine art, religious and secular objects, archives and books. For over 200 years, Ushaw was a Catholic seminary. During this time, objects were acquired, displayed and used. Our collection of Nazarene School paintings and 19th century sculpture are of particular note. Religious objects encompass church plate, recusant chalices and an important collection of clerical textiles. Our Library, described by the historian Eamon Duffy as ‘unquestionably the most important Catholic library in Britain’, contains over 50,000 individual volumes. The library encompasses early printed books, incunabula, pamphlet material and printed ephemera, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. These include approximately 3,000 British sixteenth and seventeenth century items, a substantial amount of continental printing from across Europe, plus several Chinese, Turkish and Arabic texts. Our collections are housed and displayed in a range of listed buildings, most of which were designed by the Pugin family. Some of our collections are on permanent display, others are displayed within temporary exhibitions. Ushaw is open to the public to visit everyday, with exhibitions, a café, gardens and architectural gems to explore. The heritage collections can be consulted by appointment only.
• Victoria County History
  The Victoria County History is a national network of place-based history. Founded in 1899, it is one of the world’s longest-running research projects. Today it is active in 19 counties of England and continues to work towards its original aim of writing the history of every place in England. These histories are published in Big Red Books and a range of smaller publications.
• 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.
• Vulnerable People - Changes Over the Past 50 Years
  In this video, former social worker Arthur Martland explains how the care of people with learning disabilities has changed over the past half-century.
• War Memoirs of a Nonentity: Creating Archives
  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 Vlieland, Charles Archibald's personal memoirs “DISASTER IN THE FAR EAST 1941-2” from this collection.
• Warburg Institute
  The Warburg Institute is one of the world’s leading centres for examining the interaction of ideas, images, and society. It is dedicated to the study of the survival and transmission of culture across time and space, with special emphasis on the afterlife of antiquity. The Warburg Library is famous for its unique cross-disciplinary classification system, and its open-access collection of over 350,000 volumes includes a large number of books unavailable elsewhere in the UK. It holds a collection of international importance in the humanities, with particular strengths in Medieval and Renaissance studies; the history of art and iconography; humanism and the history of the classical tradition; Arabic, Medieval and Renaissance philosophy; and the histories of religion, science and magic. The Institute’s collections are open free and without charge to researchers who would benefit from using them.
• Warburg Library Virtual Exhibition
  This is a virtual exhibition of the galleries at the Warburg Library
• Welcome to Churchill Archives Centre
  A short video introducing Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge.
• Welcome to the University of Cambridge Museums
  This video presents a visual overview of the University of Cambridge’s nine museums, showcasing the various artifacts, with an emphasis on art and science, that can be found in its museums.
• West Yorkshire Archive Service
  The West Yorkshire Archive Service collects and looks after the unique documentary heritage of the region and helps members of the public use and enjoy these records. The service has offices in Wakefield, Bradford, Calderdale (Halifax), Kirklees (Huddersfield), and Leeds and offers a free public service to visitors who want to explore the documents in our collections. We collect and preserve millions of records of all kinds dating from the twelfth century to the present day – over 800 years of history!
• What's in the GNM Archive?
  Video exploring what's in the Guardian news and media archive.
• Whitby Gazette Articles Dec 2006 - July 2014 - Beth Mead
  A selection of Whitby Gazette articles tracking Beth Mead's rise to selection for the England Football squad from Dec 2006 - July 2014
• Whitby Literary & Philosophical Society - Whitby Museum
  Start your discovery in the Hugh Kendall Reading Room in Whitby Museum - wall-to-wall cabinets filled with books to fulfil a vicarious moment, satisfy historical research, or delve into our archive that is stacked high with Whitby historical collections! Have you ever thought about looking into your family history? We have a wealth of resources to support your search including volunteers that can guide you through Find My Past and Ancestry.com. The cabinets are filled with books and documents including parish registers, pre-prepared family trees, detailed maps and books that can provide information about buildings, streets and yards in Whitby and surrounding villagers. To compliment your search access the Digital Whitby Gazette – here you will lose yourself in articles and stories; sending you down rabbit holes unearthing the past.
• Women Artists of the General Post Office
  This gallery explores the works of twelve of the General Post Office's resident poster artists