History Day

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• 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.
• London Transport Museum Library
  The Library team at London Transport Museum help people explore the history and development of public transport in London. The books, journals and special collections we hold tell the stories of the people, companies and organisations involved, as well as the wider influence of transport on London’s social history, its architecture, art, and design.
• London, Westminster & Middlesex Family History Society
  We are a Family History Society operating as a not-for-profit organisation, governed by our constitution and run by our members on a volunteer basis. Our funding comes from membership subscription, sales of our publications and donations. For over 40 years we have been helping family historians who either have ancestors in our area or live here. The Society’s area comprises the City of London, the City of Westminster, the London Boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow and Islington, together with parts of Ealing and Hillingdon.
• 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.
• Mind Matters: neuroscience and psychiatry:
  This exhibition explores aspects of the history of neuroscience and psychiatry from 1800 to 1945, with special reference to the important contributions made by staff of King’s.
• Museum of the Order of St John
  The Museum of the Order of St John at St John’s Gate has been welcoming visitors for over a hundred years, and contains extensive Museum, Library, and Archive collections which document the creation and progress of the modern Order of St John in England and the Islands, and its charitable arm, St John Ambulance. The collections include historic first aid and medical equipment, documentary evidence of the work of the Order and St John Ambulance, paintings and illuminated manuscripts, rare armour, a bronze cannon given by Henry VIII, ancient coins, decorative furniture, ceramics, silverware, and textiles. Over the road from the Gate is the Priory Church, with its twelfth century Crypt, open to visitors by appointment. The Church’s Priory Gallery features an exhibition on life in the medieval priory and Clerkenwell through the ages. The Church Cloister Garden provides a tranquil space for members of the public to enjoy, and its range of herbs gives an idea of the medicinal gardens that would have been cultivated by the Knights Hospitaller during Medieval times.
• National Army Museum
  Our archive contains a wealth of material for researching military, political and social history, as well as a range of other subjects, including fashion, science and technology. Our library contains over 55,000 books and periodicals, and represents a particularly strong collection of regimental and campaign histories. We also have over 3,670 maps and charts and 10,000 separate photographic collections available to view.
• National Art Library, V&A
  The National Art Library cares for and develops the UK's largest library collection on art, design and performance. Our holdings have been freely available to everyone since 1866 and remain so today. With over a million items from the 8th century to the present day, we welcome all readers in our historic reading rooms in South Kensington and V&A East Storehouse. We also offer lots of opportunities to explore our collections online and in person and are committed to supporting all visitors and enquirers to find material to study, enjoy or be inspired by.
• National HIV Story Trust
  An educational and archival charity dedicated to capturing, preserving and telling the stories of the HIV and AIDS pandemic.
• National Paralympic Heritage Trust
  The National Paralympic Heritage Trust was established in July 2015 to protect and share British Paralympic Heritage.