History Collections
Find out more about history collections and History Day
History Collections
Find out more about history collections and History Day
York: exploring the local history of a Victorian constituency
Alongside biographies of 2,591 MPs, the House of Commons 1832-68 project is also researching and writing articles on the 401 English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh constituencies in existence during this period. This blog takes this constituency as an example to explain...
Paper to Pixels: Digitising Lloyd’s Register’s Historic Ship Plan and Survey Report Collection
This blog post is by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Heritage & Education Centre. Lloyd's Register Foundation Heritage & Education Centre will take part in History Day 2020. Who are we? Founded in 1760, Lloyd’s Register is the oldest ship classification...
New Worlds at Bethlem Museum of the Mind
This blog post was written by David Luck, Archivist at Bethlam Museum of the Mind. Bethlam Museum of the Mind will be participating in the Being Human festival 2020. The challenges of the last few months of covid and lockdown are well known to all of us, and in this...
New Worlds – Special collections at Senate House Library
This blog post was written by Dr Karen Attar, Curator of Rare Books and University Art at Senate House Library, University of London, and Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies. Senate House Library is one of the co-organisers of History Day and you will...
Sex, (almost) in the city: Southwark – a constituency of contrasts
This blog post was written by Dr Hannes Kleineke, editor of the History of Parliament Commons 1461-1504 project. History of Parliament will be participating in History Day 2020. This blog post is cross-posted from the History of Parliament local history blog series...
Protests and Suffragettes
This blog post was written by Ian McCracken, Archivist and Researcher. Protests and Suffragettes will be participating in History Day 2020. I am honoured to be a member of Protests and Suffragettes. As a Creative Heritage team (all volunteers), we want to ensure that...
Research Under Lockdown: Open and Free Access Research Materials for Historians
This post was written by Matthew Shaw, Librarian and Michael Townsend, Collections and Metadata Librarian at the Institute of Historical Research. It is cross-posted from On History, a digital magazine published by the Institute...
History Day 2019 & Engineers at War
This piece is cross-posted from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Archive and Library blog. Along with colleagues from other engineering institution libraries we attended this year’s History Day held at Senate House, London. History Day is an annual history fair...
Discoveries and Secrets from the Warburg Institute
This blog post was written by Alex Hewitt and Celia Stevenson, graduate trainees at the Warburg Institute for History Day 2019. The theme is taken from the Being Human Festival 2019. When we think of discoveries and secrets in libraries, there are a whole host of pop...
Franz Baermann Steiner and the Jeremy and HG Adler collections at King’s
This post was written by Brandon High, Special Collections Officer in the Foyle Special Collections Library at King's College London. It is cross-posted from the King's Collections blog. The collections of the novelist, poet and distinguished historian of the...
