History Day

Items

• 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
• Women Rediscovered: Denbigh, Gwyneth/ Ann Owen, The Mothers
  This video tells the story of two women's experiences of postpartum psychosis
• Women’s History Month 2025: Celebrating Women’s Voices in the IHR Collections
  This blog was written by Sarah Admans, graduate trainee librarian at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) Wohl Library 2024/25. It has been curated in celebration of Women’s History Month 2025.
• World AIDS Day 2024
  Blog on World AIDS Day 2024 which highlights material from the eight HIV and AIDS collections at LSHTM including the NAZ London Project
• Yale University Press London
  Visit our stand and sign up to our history email newsletter and take away a free book!
• York Army Museum
  We hold the collections and archives for the Royal Dragoon Guards and the Royal Yorkshire Regiment and their antecedent regiments - telling our soldiers' stories through over 300 years of military history from 1685 to the present day.
• Yorkshire and North East Film Archive
  The Yorkshire and North East Film Archive is a unique pan-regional resource which comprises 75,000 reels of film, video, and digital content capturing life in Yorkshire and the North East over the past 135 years. At the heart of our Collection are films made by, and for, local people which reflect the diversity of the people living in our communities, conveying a strong sense of place and regional identity in a way only moving pictures can. The films reflect multiple aspects of life in the region from the 1890s to the present day, documenting major changes in employment, industry, culture, leisure, and the changing landscape and architecture of Yorkshire and the North East of England. As a registered charity, our work is to collect, preserve, and make these extraordinary collections accessible for everyone.