Category: Records and research Records and researchPatently obvious: Tracing the inventions of William Henry Fox Talbot, photography pioneerThursday 1 June 2023We demonstrate how you can look at historical inventions recorded in documents at The...Records and researchLegacies of Chinese indenture aboard the Empire Windrush in 1948Wednesday 31 May 2023As Migration and Citizenship researcher, I've been tracing the stories of passengers...Records and researchPolicing migration: researching the lives of foreign nationals in a government archiveTuesday 30 May 2023We trace the stories of three people who migrated to Britain during the 1920s...Records and researchIndian indenture: Creative responses to the archivesWednesday 24 May 2023Iqbal Singh reflects on the launch of the Kuli Dhal Puri anthology....Records and researchSyrups and ships: Early sugar consumption in EnglandTuesday 16 May 2023What can a recipe teach us about the role of sugar in English society...Records and researchWhat links Dracula and Tess of the d’Urbervilles?Tuesday 9 May 2023The answer is hidden in our collection of copyright registration forms...Records and researchThe unexpected beauty in copyright registration: Robert Jackson’s photographsThursday 4 May 2023Unearthing a series of images captured by a Manchester-based photographer in the 1860s....Records and researchThe coronation of James IIFriday 21 April 2023A lavish volume in our library's rare books collection gives us a glimpse into...Records and researchGreasy poles, jam tarts and music hall songs: Celebrating the Coronation of Edward VIITuesday 18 April 2023Copyright records can show us how Edward VII's coronation was celebrated locally....Records and researchApril Ashley: The legal battleMonday 17 April 2023Explore the explosive divorce case between April Ashley and Arthur Corbett, and its legacy....Records and research‘Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the hairiest of them all?’Wednesday 12 April 2023What has a head, a tail, spine, and body, and is covered in short,...Records and research‘Wicked and seditious writings’ – Thomas Paine, Rights of Man and treasonWednesday 5 April 2023What happened when the radical writer was taken to court, accused of sedition?... « 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 … 114 »