The Common Room of The Great North – Knowledge and Collection; adapting our programme during a pandemic.
In the heart of Newcastle Upon Tyne’s city centre, you will find one of the largest, most comprehensive, public collections on mining […]
Category: Featured Archives
Archives across the UK and Ireland tell you about what they hold and what they do with it.
Keeping up with the Archivists at the Richard Burton Archives, Swansea University
Due to the current COVID19 pandemic, the Richard Burton Archives temporarily closed its doors to the public on 19th March, and since then […]
With Love from Dunkirk
A few months ago, through a series of coincidences, staff at Suffolk Archives discovered something remarkable. Amongst the records we hold for […]
The Royal Asiatic Society was set to improve European knowledge of Asia
A treasure of artworks from Asia still promoting its cultural history to this day.
WGH Transportation Engineering Collection at the National Fairground and Circus Archive
WGH Transportation Engineering was a specialist company operating between 1989 and 2016 from their headquarters in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Their business focused […]
Featured Archive – Captain William D.A. Kemmis film collection
The Kemmis collection is a small collection of film reels ranging from the mid to late 1930’s. The reels, stored in an […]
Featured Archive RTÉ Archive
Between the years 1952 and 1953, the English artist Nevill Johnson, supported by a small Arts Council grant and using a second […]
“To be Taught Everything Necessary”
Discover 19th Century Childhood through Loreto Boarding Schools ‘To be taught everything necessary …..’; these were the instructions of the parents of […]
Fake News, Mental Health and Escaping the Library: Civic Mission in Archives and Libraries
“City and College should stand, shoulder to shoulder, facing the problems of life together” These words were written by a member of […]
Powys Archives
Powys Archives is located in Llandrindod Wells, and serves as the official repository for the records of the county of Powys. Our […]