History Day

Items

• Introduction to the Warburg Library Classification System
  Video playlist introducing the Warburg Library, its origins and its collections.
• Introduction to the West Yorkshire Archive Service
  An introductory video to the West Yorkshire Archive Service.
• Invisible Labour: The Women Who Kept Wartime Telecommunications Running
  During the Second World War, women’s behind-the-scenes work in telecommunications was vital to the war effort. What can their experiences tell us about office work for women in the postal service at the time?
• Islamic Heritage Past and Present: Ismailis in History and Myth
  The film, Islamic Heritage Past and Present: Ismailis in History and Myth features IIS Director Emeritus Dr Farhad Daftary on the topic of myths perpetuated about Ismailis and how modern scholarship is able to challenge them due to manuscripts held in our collection.
• Isle of Wight LGBT+ Oral Histories
  Out On An Island: Pride In Self, Pride In Place Oral History recordings have been fully transcribed, digitised and deposited at Carisbrooke Castle Oral History Archival collection "Island Voices' & The Wessex Film and Sound Archives. The project is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and Isle of Wight Council
• Ismaili Special Collections: Islamic Heritage Past and Present - Trailer
  A new series from the Ismaili Special Collections Unit (ISCU) and the Department of Communications and Development (DCD) was launched this year which aims to showcase items of historical importance held at The Institute of Ismaili Studies and highlight their contemporary relevance today. Through this series, expert scholars introduce a diverse range of rare manuscripts and objects, bringing specialist research to a wider audience.
• Ismaili-Sufi Interactions in Badakhshan Manuscripts
  This short film, Ismaili-Sufi Interactions in Badakhshan Manuscripts, features Dr Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, an Associate Professor at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, exploring Ni‘matull?h? works transmitted in Badakhshan Ismaili manuscripts which shed light on Ismaili-Sufi interactions as evident from these manuscripts.
• John Innes Historic Collections
  The John Innes Historic Collections comprise a science archive relating to plant sciences and genetics, a special collection of rare botanical books spanning over 500 years and a history of genetics library.
• Join in our celebration of 150 Years at Burlington House
  In 2024 the Society of Antiquaries celebrates 150 years of being at Burlington House, this blog looks into the history of the society at this location.
• Joseph Lister in the Archives – “The Father of antiseptic surgery”
  Joseph Lister introduced the concept of antisepsis in surgery in the 1860s, paving the way for the modern aseptic techniques we recognise today. Read on for a brief history of his work, illustrated with items from the archive.
• King's Archives and Special Collections Trailer
  You are cordially invited to join us at King's College London to uncover new and old stories in our Archives and Library Special Collections!
• King’s College London Libraries and Collections
  King’s Libraries offer a huge multidisciplinary information resource base including over 1.2 million printed books and ebooks; more than 60,000 journals, reference tools, statistical data, official publications, maps, music scores, multimedia resources, photographs and manuscripts, as well as Archives (5 million items) and Special Collections of international standing.
• Kings and Witches: exploring the sources of Macbeth in the IHR Library
  This blog was written by Michael Townsend, Collections and Metadata Librarian at the IHR Wohl Library.
• Lambeth Local History Forum
  The Lambeth Local History Forum brings together a wide range of societies and institutions in the London Borough of Lambeth who share an interest in researching and publishing local history, whatever else they may also do. Membership is limited to societies and institutions – there is no individual membership of the Forum.
• Lambeth Palace Library
  Lambeth Palace Library is the historic library of the Archbishops of Canterbury and preserves the national archives of the Church of England.
• Layers of London
  Layers of London is a map-based history website developed by the Institute of Historical Research. Users can access free historic maps of London and contribute stories, memories and histories to create a social history resource about their area. Start exploring now!
• 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
• LGBTQ+ podcast series with Clare Balding
  In 2017, broadcaster and author Clare Balding presented a podcast series exploring the lost and hidden LGBTQ stories from our places, to mark the 50th anniversary of the partial de-criminalisation of homosexuality. Over six 20-minute episodes, Clare explores how lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people have helped to shape and preserve some of the special places in our care.