Reflections on History Day at DCDC

Jul 28, 2021 | General

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...

Women’s history across collections

Jan 21, 2019 | General

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...

Researcher’s View from the collections at the University of Manchester

Oct 15, 2018 | General, Researchers, University of Manchester

This post was written by Katherine Ambler, Postgraduate Research Student at King’s College London. It is part of a series of posts on researchers’ experiences in libraries and archives. My research focuses on the history of the ‘Manchester School’ of social...

Stimulating Papers: Which sources make for exciting research and how to choose them

Sep 20, 2018 | General

This post was written by Esther Brot, PhD student at King’s College London and History Day 2018’s postgraduate volunteer. It is part of a series of posts on researchers’ experiences. I think there is a fallacy sometimes early on in research careers that certain types...

Reflections on Conference Attendance at the Beginning of your PhD

Aug 13, 2018 | General

This post was written by Esther Brot, PhD student at King’s College London and History Day 2018’s postgraduate volunteer. It is part of a series of posts on researchers’ experiences. This past year I have begun to venture out into the conference circuit beyond those...

The Researcher’s View: Attending and giving a workshop at a conference

Jul 17, 2018 | General

This post was written by Esther Brot, PhD student at King’s College London and History Day 2018’s postgraduate volunteer. It is part of a series of posts on researchers’ experiences. Attending to Early Modern Women Last month I ventured to Milwaukee, WI USA to attend...