History Day 2025
History Day 2025 took place on 4 November. Thank you to everyone who participated, either in-person or online. You can explore the online contributions and browse the organisations here. We are grateful to the University of London Convocation Trust for supporting the Queer History and Heritage Trail and the Zine Workshop.
History Day 2025 Online Contributions
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New Books in the IHR Library: Queer History
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For What Reasons the Murder Was Done: the Destruction of Constance Maynard's Diaries
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Constance Maynard's Diaries and Unpublished Autobiography Online
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LGBT+ at the Linnean Society
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Medicalisation as marginalisation: queer heritage and class oppression in the RCP collections
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Sheltered from laymans’ eyes’: sex in the RCP library
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'That which never can be suppressed': LGBTQ+ history in the Royal College of Physicians collections
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Unspoken love in the RCP’s archive: four women’s relationships
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Diana Kimber and Louise Darche: leading lights in New York nursing
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Remembering Amelia Edwards this Pride Month
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Leonhard Fuchs’s History of Plants (1542) | Sachiko Kusukawa
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HIVstory Project
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An Englishman in New York
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HIVstory Project
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History from an Era of Illustrated News
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Historic View of Illustrated London Periodicals
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The Leicester Galleries and its Exhibition Catalogues
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Paul Joyce Archive : original drawings and papers on G.E. Street and Victorian Gothic Architecture
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Exploring the Gavin Stamp Archive
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Dennis Sharp Archive : Concrete and Controversy, the architecture of Connell, Ward & Lucas
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Damaged & Destroyed : Three Stories of Preservation and Loss from the PMC’s Photographic Archive
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Exploration of the Paul Oppé Library and Archive
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Exploring the Frank Simpson Archive
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Auction Catalogues in the Paul Mellon Centre Library
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Art, life, love : narratives from the Benedict Nicolson Archive
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Brian Sewell : an introduction to the archive
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Remembering the East London Gay Community
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From Black and White to Colour: Staff Selections from the Paul Mellon Centre's Archives & Library Collections
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NLGS (National Lesbian and Gay Survey)
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Poultry against the Pestilence: Early Modern Surgeons’ treatments for the Plague
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Patrick Trevor-Roper and the decriminalisation of homosexuality
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Queer letters from Victorian England
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Fifty Years of Innocence
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Meet the Maker: Sofie Birkin
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Meet the Maker: Dean Morris
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The story of Gustavus Cornwall
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Joseph Lister in the Archives – “The Father of antiseptic surgery”
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Lord Ronald Gower: The Life of a Queer MP
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'Queering the narrative' in the archival records at Bethlem Museum of the Mind
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The Afterlife of Alchemy in the Warburg Institute Library’s Collection
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Discover the groundbreaking multi media exhibition: Our Legacy, Our Home: Club Kali at 30
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British LGBTQ+ History Podcast Series, 1800 - Present Day
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No common appearance - A pathologist of note
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SOAS Library Book Display Video: 'Beyond a Ban: Queer Voices Uncensored'
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Seized Books! An online exhibition
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Up the Lycabettus – lovely sunset: Amy Maud Hicks’ diary to Greece
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Legal History Timeline
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Revealing LGBTQ+ history through Archives Hub
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AIDS Social History
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Antinous in the collection of the Institute of Classical Studies Library
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The Hall-Carpenter Archives: LGBT+ collections at LSE
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Absolute Units: 'Queer Rural Lives: Searching the Archives' with Tim Jerrome
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SIGMA Research collection
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Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health
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Papers of Joseph Sonnabend
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Papers of Professor Virginia Berridge
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Fakoya collection
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Papers of Professor Kaye Wellings
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Papers of Professor Peter Piot
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World AIDS Day 2024
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Beyond the Botanical in Kew's Persian collections
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Leafy legacies: revealing the stories preserved within Kew Gardens’ Library and Archives
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Darwin's letters in Kew Gardens' Archives
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Queer Constellations: The Histories of Rural Gay Men
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Isle of Wight LGBT+ Oral Histories
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Whitby Gazette Articles Dec 2006 - July 2014 - Beth Mead
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LGBT+ History in the European archives
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Special Collections at the Institute of Ismaili Studies
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Unfolding Time: the Medieval Pocket Calendar
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Queer History in the IHR
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![Absolute Units: 'Origin Story (with Adam Kozary)' [the story of the 'absolute unit' meme]](https://exhibitions.london.ac.uk/files/square/31473590867d055279d2e7c83b841a5fd5fc81c9.jpg)
Absolute Units: 'Origin Story (with Adam Kozary)' [the story of the 'absolute unit' meme]
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Bees in the Collections
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The Groundnut Scheme: a colonial failure
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In the Spotlight: Mid-Century Women Artists from the Charles Hasler Collection
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In the Footsteps of Exiles
Organisations Participating in History Day 2025
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Archive of Market and Social Research (AMSR)
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Archives Hub
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Bethlem Museum of the Mind
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Birkbeck, University of London
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British School at Rome
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Churchill Archives Centre
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The Gardens Trust
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German Historical Institute London
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Guardian News & Media Archive
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Guildhall Library, City of London
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Historic England Archive
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Historical Association
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History Lab
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History Lab +
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History of Parliament
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The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple - Library and Archives
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HOWL: History of Women's Liberation
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Imperial War Museums
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Institute of Classical Studies
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Institute of English Studies
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Institute of Historical Research
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The Ismaili Special Collections Unit, The Institute of Ismaili Studies
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King’s College London Libraries and Collections
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Lambeth Local History Forum
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Lambeth Palace Library
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Library of the Society of Friends
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Linnean Society of London
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The London Archives
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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LSE Library
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Mass Observation Archive
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The National Archives
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National Art Library, V&A
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Natural History Museum
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The Postal Museum
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Queen Mary University of London Archives and Special Collections
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Royal College of Physicians (Archive, Heritage Library and Museum)
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Royal College of Surgeons of England
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The Royal Historical Society
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Royal Holloway, University of London Archives and Special Collections
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The Sainsbury Archive
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Senate House Library
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SOAS Library
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Society of Antiquaries of London
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Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives
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UCL Library
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University of Westminster Records and Archives
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Warburg Institute
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Zoological Society of London
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In Rovers We Trust
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Whitby Literary & Philosophical Society - Whitby Museum
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Aga Khan Library
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The Egypt Exploration Society
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Archives Portal Europe
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National HIV Story Trust
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Yale University Press London
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British Online Archives
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Shakespeare's Globe Library and Archive
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London Museum - Port and River Archive
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Newham Heritage Centre
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Exact Editions
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Britten Pears Arts
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StoneCrabs Theatre - Out On An Island
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Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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Club Kali Network
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Queer Heritage and Collections Network
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Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives (AGRA)
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Royal Museums Greenwich
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The Museum of English Rural Life
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Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
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UCL Press
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National Trust
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Cambridgeshire Archives
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Greater Manchester Archives and Local Studies Partnership