History Collections
Find out more about history collections and History Day
History Collections
Find out more about history collections and History Day
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...
Tracing ‘Captain Lobe’: Discovering the Real-Life Model for a Fictional Salvationist in the Archives of The Salvation Army
This post was written by Flore Janssen, Digital Humanities Project Officer at The Salvation Army International Heritage Centre The opening lines of the novel In Darkest London (1891; first published as Captain Lobe in 1889) read: … just two years ago, a little man,...
What Prisoners Can Teach Us: History Lessons For the Current World
This post was written by Esther Brot, PhD student at King’s College London. The blossoming of political participation in the United States has resonance with my own research on prisoners’ petitions in eighteenth-century London. Currently, People are taking to the...
Study Session: How to research your local park
Image: [partial view] Coloured postcard of Finsbury Park with a family group, 22 February 1906. RHS Lindley Collections. RHS Lindley Library, London, Friday 12 July 2019, 2 – 4.30 pm A study session exploring the history of London’s parks and green spaces, including...
Study Session: Take Chelsea Home
RHS Lindley Library, London, Friday 14 June 2019, 2 – 4.30 pm This study session with Chris Young, Editor of The Garden, looks at how you can take ideas from the Chelsea Flower Show and translate them into your garden at home. It includes a chance to see original...
Hidden Horticulturists: Training Gardeners at the Royal Horticultural Society
Exhibition: RHS Lindley Library View of the flower garden at Valley Field, Fife, Scotland, from Humphry Repton's Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening. London: 1805. 4th March – 6th May 2019 Monday – Friday, 10am - 5pm The RHS has been...
Women’s history across collections
The History Collections website has been publishing pieces about women's history in library, archive and other history collections for several years. In 2018 we gave the topic a special focus because of the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People...
The Churchill Archives Centre at History Day 2018
This post was written by Andrew Riley and Heidi Egginton from the Churchill Archives Centre. It is cross-posted from the Churchill College website. In November, the Churchill Archives Centre took part in the annual History Day held at the University of London’s...
“Unearth the gems from your local area”: CILIP Local Studies Group at History Day 2018
This post was written by Stella Wentworth, Local Studies Librarian at the Oxfordshire History Centre reporting on the CILIP Local Studies Group attendance at History Day 2018. It is cross-posted from the CILIP Local Studies Group Blog. After eight months of...
Unveiling Women’s History at the University of Leicester
This post was written by Sarah Wood and Elizabeth Blood of the University of Leicester Library. It is part of a series of posts on the theme of Women’s History to tie in with History Day 2018. About the University of Leicester Established in 1921 as a memorial to...