Take our quiz to find out, we'll give you the answers tomorrow on International Digital Preservation Day! The digital preservation community has been trying to tackle to issues of keeping...
This blog was written by Katherine Emery, Assistant Archives Officer. The English Civil War dates from 1642 to 1651, which ultimately led to the execution of Charles I and England,...
Lord Hailsham, 1970, PUD/14/305, Parliamentary Archives There are some opinionated politicians across party lines from previous eras who would have relished the combativeness of today’s social media world. Residing near...
...dedication to physical competition that the Baroness found herself in Tel Aviv in 1968 representing her country in the Paralympic Games then known as the International Stoke Mandeville Games. She...
...November 1870 Herbert Samuel came into the somewhat gilded world of Liverpool’s upwardly mobile Anglo-Jewish community, known as the Cousinhood. Mainly of Ashkenazi-German origin, his father Edwin was closely connected...
...arcane subject, but in fact provides an interesting window into the tumults and transformations of early modern English history. Parliament had been regarded as the proper body through which the...
...D10809Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs National Portrait Gallery, London A Royal Marriage King George IV after Sir Thomas Lawrence circa 1815 NPG 2503Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs National Portrait Gallery, London On...
...Here’s the man, the myth, the minor Parliamentarian. Lord Byron, by Richard Westall, oil on canvas, 1813, NPG 4243Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs National Portrait Gallery Representation of the court...
To celebrate London History Day we had a close look at our collections and tried to find records that reflected on London’s past but would speak to Londoners today; and...
...international trade, Wilberforce is “forgetting the interests of [his] country”. “British interests” apply not only to the United Kingdom but to the Empire at large. Isaac Gascoyne was another Liverpool...
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