History Collections
Find out more about history collections and History Day
History Collections
Find out more about history collections and History Day
RCS England Tracts: A truly complementary research resource
This post was written by Corinne Hogan, Assistant Librarian at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. It is part of a series of posts for History Day 2021. Separate posts describe Medical History archive collections and Natural History archive collections. A...
Medical History archive collections at the Royal College of Surgeons of England
This post is part of a series from the Royal College of Surgeons of England for History Day 2021. Separate posts describe Natural History archive collections and Tracts. The archive collections of the Royal College of Surgeons of England contain a rich breadth of...
Where the Wild Things Were
This post was written by Chris Corbett, Community Engagement Officer at Teesside Archives. This is part of a series of posts on the theme of Environmental History for History Day 2021. Climate change, species extinction, plastic pollution, habitat degradation; these...
Guildhall Library: The Library of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners
This post was written by Jeanie Smith & Isabelle Chevallot, Assistant Guildhall Librarians for History Day 2021. Guildhall Library, the Library of London History, is delighted to be taking part in History Day 2021 which will focus on “environmental history in its...
Environmental History in the IHR Library’s Collections
This post was written by Michael Townsend, Collections and Metadata Librarian at the Institute of Historical Research Library. It is part of a series of post celebrating Environmental History collections for History Day 2021. It is cross-posted from the Institute of...
Collecting and Studying Nature: Collections from Cumbria Archive Service Whitehaven Archives
This gallery is from Whitehaven Archives, Cumbria Archive service, as part of a series of posts on the theme of Environmental History to tie in with History Day 2021. For more information about the Cumbria Archive Service and the materials held, please see the website...
The Bromsgrovian botanist who earnt His ‘Majesty’s admiration’
A discovery in the archive at Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service reveals how a local scientist contributed not only to popularising horticulture in the 19th century but significantly during his life to the people and town of Bromsgrove. In fact, held in...
One natural historian’s indebtedness to museums and galleries
This post was written by Roger S. Wotton, Emeritus Professor of Biology at UCL, for History Day 2021. I always enjoyed walking on my own in the countryside and along the coast of South Devon, where I lived. My love of natural history and, especially, of life in water...
A preview of History Day 2021: Environmental History and more
This blog post was written by Kate Wilcox (Institute of Historical Research) and Argula Rublack (Senate House Library) co-organisers of History Day. History Day is a free, one-day event which brings people interested in history together with history collections from...
Reflections on History Day at DCDC
Kate Wilcox and Argula Rublack, co-organisers of History Day, reflect on the recent collaboration with The National Archives, RLUK, and Jisc to bring History Day to the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC) conference. They thank the DCDC organisers...