History Day

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• HIVstory Project
  Introducing our new national outreach programme, 'HIVstory'. Discover the unique, personal stories of those impacted by the HIV/AIDS pandemic of the 80s and 90s. Find out why it's vital that we preserve this crucial piece of UK heritage and educate future generations across the country.
• 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
• 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.
• NHS 75: Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service
  The history of the NHS in our collections
• Northern Ireland: Living with the Troubles
  This blog post was written by Kaili Smith and Charlotte Willsmore, Research Support Librarians at IWM London, for History Day 2023 and explores library material relating to the IWM’s exhibition Northern Ireland: Living with the Troubles (May 2023- January 2024).
• Partition Memories Exhibition
  This blog post reviews the Partition Memories exhibition at SOAS Library
• Royal College of Surgeons of England’s Voices of Surgery: Our New Oral History Project
  In this video from the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Mr Navnit Shah, Professor Averil Olive Mansfield, and Ruth Lester, OBE, briefly speak about their experiences working in surgery as a part of RCS England’s wider oral project on surgeons.
• Their Finest Hour Interactive Map
  Their Finest Hour's newly launched interactive map allows you to follow 100 personal journeys through the Second World War, across Britain and the globe. From military service and internment to evacuation and everyday life on the home front, each journey reveals a unique perspective on life during the Second World War. Use the keyword filters to tailor your exploration, and adjust the date slider to focus on specific moments in time. View photographs, letters, and personal objects linked to each story, trace individuals' journeys across the globe, and explore wartime geography using historic overlays and Second World War-era map boundaries. Each point on the map opens a story panel where you can explore a personal account in more detail and access a direct link to the full contribution in the Their Finest Hour Online Archive, which holds over 2,000 stories and 25,000 digitised items shared by members of the public between 2022 and 2024.