Tag: London Records and researchResearching the birth of the first domestic violence refugeWednesday 20 March 2024Read a researcher's journey exploring the first few years of Chiswick Women's Aid....Records and researchAccroaching royal power in 1380s London: The downfall of Nicholas BrembreMonday 20 February 2023Explore the downfall of a key figure of 1380s London, a period characterised by...Records and research‘You don’t understand our love’: Lady Austin’s camp boysMonday 13 February 2023Discover London's queer parties of the 1930s, and how the police persecuted these spaces....Records and researchCharles Harold Moore: The Victorian one-legged champion swimmerFriday 3 September 2021Charles Harold Moore was a champion one-legged swimmer in the Victorian period. Moore began...Records and researchSir James Pennethorne and the Public Record OfficeThursday 3 June 2021James Pennethorne (1801-1871), 19th-century English classical architect, was born on 4 June 1801 in...Records and researchThe Lion and Unicorn Pavilion: Legacies of the 1951 Festival of BritainTuesday 25 May 2021If you had taken a walk along the south bank of London’s River Thames...Records and researchThe Shim Sham Club: ‘London’s miniature Harlem’Wednesday 5 February 2020Queer club culture in the 1930s was vibrant and varied, especially in the growing...Archives and archivistsPeel’s Police: Raw Lobsters and Blue Devils!Thursday 25 April 2019On 19 June 1829, Sir Robert Peel’s Act for Improving the Police in and...Behind the scenesThe saviour of the sewersWednesday 27 March 2019Thursday 28 March marks the bicentenary of the birth of Joseph Bazalgette – one of...Records and researchBook-women after the Great Fire of LondonWednesday 12 December 2018The disaster of the Great Fire of London was keenly felt by those who...Records and researchSuffragette outrage and prayers at St Paul’sTuesday 21 August 2018Westminster Abbey. St Martin in the Fields. St George’s Hanover Square. St John the...Records and researchThe civil servant’s tale: Geoffrey Chaucer in the archives (Part two)Monday 27 November 2017In the first of this series of blogs, I looked into the early life... 1 2 3 »