Category: Records and research 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?...Records and researchExamining the Foreign Office’s ‘Slave Trade Department’ records: Part twoTuesday 4 April 2023Examine the role slavery played in the regional diplomacy of the Indian Ocean in...Records and researchApril Ashley: Her early lifeFriday 31 March 2023Explore the early life of April Ashley, pioneering model and key figure in trans...Records and researchStories Unboxed: A One Document DisplayFriday 31 March 2023Our new initiative, 'Stories Unboxed: Document of the Month', sheds light on royal coronations.... « 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 … 114 »