Lilias Trotter in the SOAS Archives

May 10, 2018 | SOAS

This blog post was written by and is cross-posted from the SOAS Archives and Special Collections blog and is part of a series of posts on the theme of Women’s History in the lead up to History Day 2018. The SOAS Archives are rich in the life-stories of individual...

Study Day at the RHS Lindley Library: A World under Glass

May 2, 2018 | RHS Lindley Library

This blog post was guest-written by Nicola Mayer, Exhibition and Events Co-ordinator (Lindley Library) For this study day on the 4th of May, the RHS Lindley Library welcomes three speakers to talk about the history of glasshouses and the opportunity to...

Archive experience from Saint Petersburg, Russia

Apr 30, 2018 | General

This post was written by Katya Morgunova, King’s College London. It is part of a series of posts on researchers’ experiences in libraries and archives. Saint Petersburg archives are located in some of the most iconic buildings in the city centre. For example, the...

Working with Russian-language periodicals at the British Library

Apr 23, 2018 | British Library

This post was written by Hannah Connell, King’s College London. It is part of a series of posts on researchers’ experiences in libraries and archives. Working with the British Library’s holdings of Russian-language periodicals in the Slavonic collections,...

Salvation and Suffrage

Apr 12, 2018 | Salvation Army International Heritage Centre

This blog post was written by Chloe Wilson, Archive Assistant at The Salvation Army International Heritage Centre. It has been cross-posted from The Salvation Army International Heritage Centre blog and is part of a series of posts on the theme of Women’s...

Archive Evening 2018 at the Stationers’ Company: A Celebration of the Tokefield Archive Centre

Apr 9, 2018 | Stationers' Company Archives

This blog post was written by Ruth Frendo, the Archivist of the Stationers’ Company Archive. The Stationers’ Company is the City of London Livery Company for the Communications and Content Industries. The majority of our members still work in, or supply, the...

Research at the Torre de Tombo (Portugal)

Apr 5, 2018 | General

This post was written by Benjamin James, King’s College London. It is part of a series of posts on researchers’ experiences in libraries and archives. In the campus of the Universidade de Lisboa stands the National Archive of Portugal, a contemporary...

Researcher’s View from the Archives Nationales (France)

Mar 27, 2018 | General

This post was written by Anna Young, Vanderbilt University. It is part of a series of posts on researchers’ experiences in libraries and archives. The First Taste of the Archives The French word for archival documents, fonds, has a happy double meaning: the...

How To: Postgraduate Students Delve into Archival Research

Mar 16, 2018 | General, North American Collections Group

This post was written by Esther Brot, PhD student at King’s College London and History Day 2018’s postgraduate volunteer. She introduces a new blog series by researchers in the lead up to History Day 2018. This blog series will record days in the life of...

3D Printing in the School of Advanced Study, University of London

Jan 12, 2018 | Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study

This is a guest post by Jonathan Blaney, Digital Projects Manager and Editor, British History Online for the Institute of Historical Research. If you were at History Day 2017, you might have seen the new 3D printer on the IHR’s table. This post explains a bit...