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New Worlds at Bethlem Museum of the Mind

Oct 6, 2020 | Bethlem Museum of the Mind

This blog post was written by David Luck, Archivist at Bethlem Museum of the Mind. Bethlem Museum of the Mind will be participating in the Being Human festival 2020. The challenges of the last few months of covid and lockdown are well known to all of us, and in this...

SOAS Archives and Special Collections: Report from Annual Open Day

Nov 9, 2018 | SOAS

This blog post was written by and is cross-posted from the SOAS Archives and Special Collections blog. In October, they held an annual Open Day to promote their collections, which reflect the British interaction with Africa, Asia and the Middle East over the last 250...

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...

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...

London Metropolitan Archives at History Day 2017

Dec 19, 2017 | London Metropolitan Archives

This post was written by Claire Titley, London Metropolitan Archives and is reposted from the LMA website. Over 50 libraries and archives gathered on 31 October for History Day 2017 at the Institute of Historical Research in Senate House, an annual event where...