History Day

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• British Records Association
  The British Records Association (BRA) is a charity which aims to promote the preservation, understanding, accessibility and study of our recorded heritage for the public benefit. It is open to anyone interested in records and archives whether local historians, academics, professional archivists, or custodians and owners of collections, or simply those who are curious about the record of our past.
• British School at Rome
  For 100 years, world-class researchers and contemporary artists have been nurtured at the British School at Rome. We are the bridge between the intellectual and cultural heart of Rome and Italy, and creative and academic researchers from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Commonwealth. We welcome people from a wide range of backgrounds to a stimulating environment of interdisciplinary research and practice where work of the very highest quality is generated and facilitated in a transformative intellectual context.
• British sign language introduction to the Museum of the Order of St John
  A British Sign Language introduction to the Museum of the Order of St John.
• Britten Pears Arts
  The archive at Britten Pears Arts holds the papers of composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) and his lifelong partner the tenor Peter Pears (1910-1986) and is located in the grounds of the Red House, the home they shared in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. The archive houses perhaps the most comprehensive archive of a single composer in the world. The collection includes the majority of Britten’s music manuscripts as well as a treasure trove of material including correspondence, financial records, photographs, concert programmes , press cuttings, archive sound recordings, set and costume designs, artworks and costumes. The archive records the professional and personal life that Britten and Pears shared. It additionally holds papers of their creative circle – composers, librettists, directors, designers, artists, performers and organisations closely associated with the couple. The archive is open by appointment for anyone to visit.
• Caird Library and Archive, Royal Museums Greenwich
  The Library collection includes over 100,000 books, 20,000 pamphlets, 20,000 bound periodicals including 200 current titles, and over 12,000 rare books spanning every aspect of maritime history, including: emigration, navigation, piracy, astronomy, shipping companies, shipwrecks, biographies, the two World Wars, horology, Merchant and Royal Navy.
• Cambridgeshire Archives
  Cambridgeshire Archives Service operates two archive centres, Huntingdonshire Archives, which holds records of the former county of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire Archives which holds records of Cambridgeshire and the former Isle of Ely. We serve the informational needs of individuals, communities and local authorities by collecting, preserving, promoting and providing access to the county’s rich and varied historical archives. We hold over 20 million records (7 miles of shelving) of parish and other churches, local organisations, businesses, charities and societies, public records including coroners’ records, court records, hospital records, estates, manors, families and individuals whose activities are relevant to the history and life of Cambridgeshire from 13th century to present day e.g. Cambridge Womens’ Suffrage Association, Fulbourn Lunatic Asylum/Hospital, Bedford Level Corporation (drainage of the Fens), Petty and Quarter Sessions Court and much more.
• Caroline Amy Hutton: a forgotten archaeologist and librarian
  This blog is about Caroline Amy Hutton, who was acting librarian of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies,during WWI
• Catablogue
  The West Yorkshire Archive Service Blog
• Cataloguing 18th and 19th Century Music Scores
  Emma Poole, Library Assistant, writes about her experience cataloguing rare and historical music items.
• Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Churchill Archives Centre
  In this online exhibition, we explore the people and events that have shaped our history.
• Centre for Health Studies, Apothecaries' Hall
  The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries lies at the heart of the early foundations of modern-day medicine and remains an important, active and innovative medical institution today. The Society plays a key role in the advancement of specialist areas of medicine, and in the ongoing post-graduate education and qualification of practitioners. Steeped in history and tradition, the Society was founded by Royal Charter in 1617 and is one of the few livery companies in the City of London to remain professionally based with over 85 per cent of its membership belonging to professions allied to medicine.
• Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health
  Mixed media archive collection relating to European Commission project, Concerted Action: Assessing AIDS Prevention Strategies (1988 -1991), and follow-up projects, the aim of which was to provide an overview of the different HIV/AIDS prevention activities. Collection includes 734 posters and 6 boxes of ephemera.
• Centre for the History of People, Place and Community
  The Centre for the History of People, Place and Community (CHPPC) fosters engaged, innovative research into placed histories across all regions and periods, from the rural to the urban and the parish to the metropolis, with an emphasis on the localised, the micro-historical, and the site-specific. We work together with others to develop imaginative new approaches to making history, and to identify opportunities for history to make a difference in the real world today.
• Churchill Archives Centre
  The Churchill Archives Centre was purpose-built in 1973 to house Sir Winston Churchill’s papers— over 2000 boxes of letters and documents ranging from his first childhood letters, via his great war-time speeches, to the writings which earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. They form an incomparable documentary treasure trove. The Churchill Papers served as the inspiration and the starting point for a larger endeavour — the creation of a wide-ranging archive of the Churchill era and after, covering those fields of public life in which Sir Winston played a personal role or took a personal interest. Today the Centre holds the papers of almost 600 important figures and the number is still growing. Contemporaries of Winston Churchill, including friends and family, sit alongside major political, military and scientific figures like Margaret Thatcher, Ernest Bevin, John Major, Neil Kinnock, Admiral Ramsay, Field Marshal Slim, Frank Whittle and Rosalind Franklin. The Archives Centre is situated within the grounds of Churchill College, itself the National and Commonwealth Memorial to Sir Winston. It includes air-conditioned reading rooms, a strong room with elaborate security systems, and a sophisticated conservation laboratory and a sorting room in which raw history is put into boxes. The mission of the Centre is to preserve and provide access to the unique materials in its care.
• Churchill Archives Centre History Day 2021 podcast: the urban environment
  In this special History Day 2021 podcast, we delve into our social science collections here at Churchill Archives Centre to explore what they can tell us about the urban environment in 1950s London.
• Club Kali Network
  Club Kali is the UK’s first ever safe space welcoming all LGBTQ+ people to connect and celebrate their diverse South Asian heritage. It was set up by Dj Ritu MBE and Rita OBE as a London-based club night, and grew into an inclusive and welcoming LGBTQ+ community. Club Kali's 30th Birthday project 'Where East Meets West' documents and showcases the rich history of the Club Kali from its inception in 1995 to the present day. The collated materials have been used to create an exhibition launched at Islington Museum, a podcast series produced with SocialBroadcasts, and an archive deposited at Bishopsgate Institute. The project is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery Players.
• Commemorating D-Day: The Library Collections at IWM
  This blog will look at the commemoration of D-Day through materials held in the Imperial War Museums’ Library collection.
• Constance Maynard's Diaries and Unpublished Autobiography Online
  Constance Maynard, the first Principal of Westfield College, kept confessional and detailed diaries about her life 1866-1935 and these are now available online. She also reflected back on her life 1849-1927 in the 1930s in an unpublished autobiography made available for the first time online. Both are rich sources for the inner life of a queer woman from 1840s-1930s, history of women in higher education and the relationship with faith and sexuality.
• Damaged & Destroyed : Three Stories of Preservation and Loss from the PMC’s Photographic Archive
  In 2021, the Paul Mellon Centre (PMC) published its photographic archive online. The archive comprises more than 100,000 reproductions of paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures. The photographs, which were taken over a forty-year period between the early 1960s to the late 1990s, offer images of objects from across six centuries, and focus in particular on sixteenth- to nineteenth-century British art. This feature focuses on a selection of the damaged and destroyed works that are recorded in the Centre’s photographic archive, and uses them to suggest some of the values and limitations of such archives. It takes the form of three stories. The first offers a glimpse into the work and tragic life of the largely forgotten eighteenth-century artist Hugh Robinson; the second looks at four portraits of women associated with a titled Scottish family, the Rothes, which were totally destroyed during a high-profile warehouse fire in 1997; and the third looks at a damaged sketchbook by the nomadic Georgian artist George Chinnery.
• Darwin's letters in Kew Gardens' Archives
  Our Senior Archivist takes a closer look at Charles Darwin's letters in our Archives. They were recently added to the UNESCO Memory of the World register.
• De Montfort University Special Collections
  Special Collections comprises archives, artefacts, rare books and artworks. The collections span 1474 to the present day and encompass the history of DMU as an institution, with specialist holdings including collections on sports history, performance and art, history of photography, fashion and textiles, and the history of Leicester.
• Dennis Sharp Archive : Concrete and Controversy, the architecture of Connell, Ward & Lucas
  Dennis Sharp (1933-2010) was an architect, designer, author and teacher. The Centre holds Sharp’s archive, which comprises material compiled in the course of his research on the architecture of Connell, Ward and Lucas. The archive is fully catalogued and available for research. This spotlight feature highlights some of the key themes that emerge from the archive and some of the treasures which it contains.
• Diana Kimber and Louise Darche: leading lights in New York nursing
  A chance find in a newly catalogued book led to the story of two leading lights in nursing teaching in New York in the late 19th century: women who devoted their lives to their work and to each other.
• Discover the groundbreaking multi media exhibition: Our Legacy, Our Home: Club Kali at 30
  In this virtual exhibition we invite you to discover extracts from the materials collected as part of Club Kali’s ‘Where East Meets West’ heritage project: audio and video testimonials, photographic records, archival documents and ephemera, as well as community responses. These materials showcase personal journeys and historical milestones of Club Kali’s 30 years. The original materials are deposited at Bishopsgate Institute, London, and Islington Heritage as a historical and contemporary resource preserving this rich history for future generations. The physical Exhibition was launched in August 2025 at Islington Museum, London, UK.
• DMU Shoe-perpower: 90 Years of Footwear Design at De Montfort University
  With origins associated with Leicester's booming shoe trade in the nineteenth century, this exhibition explores the evolution of one of DMU's most prestigious courses, celebrating the achievements of its staff and students, past and present.