History Day

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• Leafy legacies: revealing the stories preserved within Kew Gardens’ Library and Archives
  Read about a past exhibition at Kew Gardens' Library & Archives, which looked at the wealth of staff histories within the Library and Archive collections.
• Learning from Lister
  In this exhibition we seek to bring Lister’s career and milieu to life through artefacts, personal effects, documents and books.
• Legal History Timeline
  A legal history timeline, highlighting important legal events in LGBT history including landmark legislation and precedent-setting case law.
• Legal narratives of the invasion of Grenada, 1983
  This blog post was written as a companion to the exhibition in the IALS Library, ‘Legal colonialism and constitutional roads to independence: Jamaica and Grenada’. This was on display until 29th November 2024.
• Leonhard Fuchs’s History of Plants (1542) | Sachiko Kusukawa
  Leonhard Fuchs’s History of Plants, published in 1542, was a landmark in Renaissance book-printing. It contained more than five hundred large woodcuts of plants, accompanied by their morphological description and medicinal uses. Typical of its time, Fuchs’s study was based on a classical work on the medicinal uses of plants by Dioscorides (first century AD). Unusually for its time, Fuchs’s book contained an illustration of the artists that were involved in the production of the images. Fuchs had good reason to be proud of the artists, as they created for him the beautiful illustrations that functioned in multiple ways to aid the study of plants. I will introduce the ways in which illustrations mattered in Fuchs’s History of Plants before having a look at the copy now at the Linnean Society.
• LGBT+ at the Linnean Society
  A number of Linnean Society staff, curators, and Fellows share their experiences of being LGBT+ in science
• LGBT+ collections
  This page highlights the LSE Library's LGBT+ collections
• LGBT+ History in the European archives
  A collection of documents on LGBT+ history in the archives of Archives Portal Europe
• Library Hub Discover
  Jisc Library Hub Discover exposes rare and unique research material by bringing together the catalogues of major UK and Irish libraries. In a single search you can discover the holdings of the UK’s National Libraries (including the British Library), many university libraries, and specialist research libraries. This new service replaces Copac and SUNCAT, providing access to a growing range of library catalogues, with a new interface style and updated search facilities, with more changes in the pipeline.
• Library of the Society of Friends
  The Library of the Society of Friends, based at Friends House, is a unique resource and is one of the largest Quaker collections in the world. The Library’s collection includes books, journals, manuscripts and visual resources, as well as the archives of the central organisation of Quakers in Britain. It is open to all and free to use. We aim to collect and preserve a record of Quaker activity, increase access to information about the Society of Friends, and encourage study in Quaker and related activities.
• Linnean Society of London
  The Linnean Society of London, founded by James Edward Smith in 1788, is the world’s oldest learned society devoted to the biological sciences. It was created as a forum for scientific discussion, and as a home for the magnificent book, manuscript, and specimen collections of the Swedish naturalist and “father of taxonomy”, Carl Linnaeus. It has fulfilled both of these functions for over 230 years.
• Lives in the ledgers: gaining new insights through our latest project
  The archives team have been looking at a series of records from the London Hospital (now the Royal London) that demonstrate how the whole life of an institution and the community of people who keep it running can be captured in a single volume.
• London Metropolitan University Special Collections
  Our Special Collections hold archives, rare books, and historic objects that span over 350 years. They range in format from personal letters, to oral history and photographs. Our main collections comprise the University Archive, The Archive of Irish in Britain, the Trades Union Congress Library collections and the Frederick Parker Archives and Chair collection.
• London Museum - Port and River Archive
  Archive comprising of the records of the Port of London Authority and smaller collections that help tell the story of London's Port and the river Thames.
• London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  The LSHTM Archives hold documents, letters, photographs, maps, publications and objects relating to tropical and infectious diseases and public health issues. Collections date from the mid-nineteenth century. The Archives also includes material on the history and development of the School since its foundation in 1899.
• Lord Ronald Gower: The Life of a Queer MP
  In this series of articles Dr Martin Spychal explores the life of Lord Ronald Charles Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (MP for Sutherland from 1867-1874), shedding light on the life of a young, aristocratic queer man as he navigated his way through the world of Westminster politics.
• LSE Library
  Founded in 1896 the British Library of Political and Economic Science (LSE Library) aimed to provide primary materials from all over the world to enable research on the social, political, legal and economic environment, and a ‘laboratory’ of the social sciences was born. Since then, many significant private collections and papers were donated and collections built to support research and teaching in the social sciences. Get in touch if you are interested in using our collections for your research library.enquiries@lse.ac.uk The Library’s unique archive collections focus on modern British political and economic history, in particular the work of pressure groups, think-tanks and campaigners, and include, Charles Booth’s London, The Women’s Library’s collections, LGBT+ collections (Hall-Carpenter Archives) and peace and internationalism.
• Marvellous Maureen
  Written by Chris Corbett, Community Engagement Officer, Teesside Archives
• Marx Memorial Library
  Marx Memorial Library & Workers' School was founded in 1933 with the aim of advancing education, knowledge and learning in all aspects of the science of Marxism, the history of Socialism and the working class movement. At the heart of the British Labour Movement for over ninety years, the Library is home to a unique collection of published and archival sources on related subjects including the trade unionism, peace and solidarity movements and the Spanish Civil War. The Library’s education programme – online and onsite – examines subjects ranging from Marxist political economy to socialist art. The Library itself is a historic building rooted in Clerkenwell’s radical tradition. We are a charity, financed by members and affiliates.
• Mass Observation Archive
  The Mass Observation Archive specialises in material about everyday life in Britain. It contains papers generated by the original Mass Observation social research organisation (1937 to early 1950s), and newer material collected continuously since 1981.
• Medicalisation as marginalisation: queer heritage and class oppression in the RCP collections
  On 22-23 October 2024, Katie Birkwood (Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian) and Felix Lancashire (Assistant Archivist) from the RCP Archives, Heritage Library and Museum Services team attended the Queer Heritage and Collections Network Symposium. We heard presentations from many organisations about the fantastic work being done around the country to better integrate queer (LGBTQ+) history into the wider work of the heritage sector. We will work to implement the lessons learned into how we collect, interpret, and present the RCP’s history.
• Meet the Maker: Dean Morris
  Exploring LGBTQ+ greetings card design with Dean Morris and the Gay Pride Shop in Manchester.
• Meet the Maker: Sofie Birkin
  Meet the illustrator behind the Royal Mail stamps that celebrated 50 years of Pride in the UK.
• Memories of 1947 between Rawalpindi and Delhi. Partition told through the eyes of VN Luthra
  On May the 20th 2022, I interviewed Mr. V N Luthra, who shared his experiences of Partition in India. Mr. Luthra was born in 1935, where he lived in Bhabra Bazaar, Rawalpindi until he was twelve years old. He then made the traumatic and emotional crossing over the border from what is now present-day Pakistan to Delhi, India.
• Memories of Partition: homeland, displacement and diasporic communities, sharing their narratives
  While growing up, I can vividly recall the 1947 partition stories that my father would share with my siblings and myself. They were harrowing, emotional and yet at the same time empowering accounts of what dad and our family had to overcome.