For this year’s International Women’s Day we are exploring the stories of some of the women who feature in our Battersea Polytechnic postgraduate dissertations and thesis collection. Battersea Polytechnic was our predecessor institution, founded in 1891 and formally opened in 1894 with six main departments: Mechanical Engineering and Building Trades Electrical Engineering and Physics Chemistry […]
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February marks LGBT+ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans +) History Month, an annual celebration of the lives and achievements of the LGBT+ community. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first Gay Pride march in the UK which took place in London on 1 July 1972 and this was certainly a topic of discussion amongst […]
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Originally, the project to catalogue the British Guild of Travel Writers’ Archive started in March 2020, with its completion designed to coincide with the Guild’s sixtieth anniversary celebrations. However, Covid interrupted that plan and we had to pause for quite some time, but cataloguing is now complete, and the catalogue of the archive is now […]
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As we approach the winter vacation our thoughts turn to warming ourselves by a roaring fire, indulging in comforting food and spending time with friends and family. All these themes can be found in our E.H. Shepard Archive and we are delighted to share some seasonal highlights from the collection with you. E.H. Shepard served […]
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As well as the wonderful range of archive materials in our care, Archives and Special Collections also has under its wing the University’s Art Collection. For many years, this was managed by the indomitable Patricia Grayburn MBE. On Friday 26 November, we welcomed University colleagues past and present, local arts and cultural representatives, as well […]
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Explore Your Archive is an annual campaign, organised by the Archives and Records Association, to promote, publicise and celebrate archives and special collections across the UK. This year the week runs from the 20th to 28th November and there is a focused social media campaign around various themes, one of which is handwriting. Whilst thinking about […]
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