Talks programme

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Video of sessions ‘Using archives and libraries’ and ‘Archiving Institutions’. Unfortunately videos are unavailable for the subsequent sessions.

Using archives and libraries

• Katie McElvanney (Cambridge University Library) and Katya Rogatchevskaia (British Library), Collaboration between researchers and libraries: training and collection-based projects
• David Luck (London Metropolitan Archives), Archive references- grasping nettles and standing on quicksand

Archiving Institutions

• Speaker cancelled
• Anne Archer (BT Heritage & Archives) and Karen Sampson (Lloyds Banking Group Archives), Explore business records
• Dongkyung Shin (KCL), Partnerships in Universities: a central role of the University of London at the end of empire

Digital tools and methods

• Amy Todd (IHR), Layers of London; a online, map-based history project with a dynamic public engagement programme
• Harry Raffal (University of Hull), Research Using Web Archives and Archived Websites: Challenges and Opportunities
• Louise Seaward (Bentham project, UCL), What next after digitisation? Handwritten Text Recognition of historical documents with Transkribus

Researching people across collections

• Paul V. Dudman (University of East London), The Past in the Present: Orienting Research, Scholarship and Practice in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies around Archives and History
• Howard Falksohn (Wiener Library), Kathrin Pieren (Jewish Museum London), Daniel Albon (London Metropolitan Archives), Clare George (Institute of Modern Languages Research / Senate House Library), Jewish history, the Holocaust and refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe
• Magda Oldziejewska and Gail Chester (Feminist Library) and Susan Croft (Writer, Curator, Director of Unfinished Histories), Feminist libraries and archives: working at the intersection of archiving, art and activism

From fiction to truths: different uses of sources

• Kate Morrison (Writer), Building fiction from fragments: writing a Black British character from historical archives.
• Anna Faherty (Writer and consultant, Strategic Content / Honorary Lecturer, Department of Information Studies, UCL), Constructing engaging stories from library and archive material
• Galadriel Ravelli (University of Bath), Making history through judicial archives: challenges and opportunities of judicial sources

Women’s History

Blog posts about history collections on the theme of Women’s history compiled in the lead-up to History Day 2018.

• Unveiling Women’s History at the University of Leicester University of Leicester Library (2018)
• Her Books, Her stories: The Bing, Yates, and David Collections at the Warburg Institute Library Warburg Institute Library (2018)
• Margaret Macpherson: allies, music and hysteria at the Royal College of Physicians Royal College of Physicians library and archives (2018)
• The Engineering Institutions’ Librarians’ Committee: spotlight on female members Engineering Institutions’ Librarians’ Committee (2018)
• Feminist Library: 43 years of saving women’s stories Feminist Library (2018)
• Making Collections Available: Margaret Tomlinson Collection at the Historic England Archive: Part 1: Margaret Tomlinson and her work, Part 2: Margaret’s work conserved Historic England Archive & Library (2018)
• The Phillippa Fawcett Collection at the London Mathematical Society The London Mathematical Society (2018)
• Road to Equality: Google and LSE Library celebrate suffrage The Women’s Library, LSE (2018)
• Women in Science at the Dana Research Centre and Library, Science Museum Dana Research Centre and Library, Science Museum (2018)
• Women’s History at the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries (2018)
• The Prospects for Women’s Suffrage City, University of London (2018)
• Women’s suffrage at home and away Bibliography of British and Irish History (2018)
• Lilias Trotter in the SOAS Archives SOAS Archives  (2018)
• Salvation and Suffrage The Salvation Army International Heritage Centre (2018)
• Archiving and Activism is Magic! The Feminist Library (2017)
• Witches and the Stationers’ Company Archive The Stationers’ Company Archive (2017)
• Supernatural at the London Metropolitan Archives London Metropolitan Archives (2017)
• The Ruth First Archive Senate House Library (2016)
• American Educationalists in the UCL IOE’s Special Collections Newsam Library and Archives, UCL Institute of Education (2015)
• Black Georgians: Phillis Wheatley Black Cultural Archives (2015)
• Women’s Art Library and other Special Collections Goldsmiths, University of London Special Collections & Archives (2015)
• Women’s History Resources Queen Mary, University of London Archives (2015)