Category: Archive

  • The History of Advertising Trust: preservation, management, and marketing in modern Britain

    The History of Advertising Trust: preservation, management, and marketing in modern Britain

    By Alistair Moir (Archive and Library Collections Manager, https://www.hatads.org.uk/.) The History of Advertising Trust (HAT) is a nationally accredited archive service established in 1976 to preserve the heritage of the UK advertising industry and make it available for study and research. Today the HAT archive is the most comprehensive collection of British advertising and marketing communications in…

  • Researching with English Legal Records: some tips on getting started

    Researching with English Legal Records: some tips on getting started

    By Laura Flannigan (@LFlannigan17) The vast archives produced by the English legal system are some of our most valuable materials for legal, political, social, and family histories.  Issuing from national and local courts, from common, ecclesiastical, and equitable jurisdictions, and covering civil and criminal law, they offer a window into the lives of ordinary people and…

  • Book Review – Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia by Samia Khatun

    Book Review – Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia by Samia Khatun

    Mobeen Hussain (@amhuss27) reviews Samia Khatun’s Australianama (Hurst Publishers, December 2018, ISBN 9781849049696 £25.00) In Australianama, author and academic Samia Khatun skilfully weaves an intricate patchwork of hitherto unexplored connections between South Asia and Australia. I first heard about Australianama at an Islam and Print in South Asia Workshop at the British Library where Khatun…

  • Angela Davis in conversation: legacies, lessons and reflections on resistance, justice and hope

    Angela Davis in conversation: legacies, lessons and reflections on resistance, justice and hope

    By Mobeen Hussain (@amhuss27) and Aoife O’Leary McNeice (@aolmcn)  We were both lucky enough to attend two events with the revered black communist scholar and activist Professor Angela Davis in March and April. The first was held at the Southbank Centre in London for International Women’s Day as part of the Women of the World festival with the…

  • History for Schools

    History for Schools

    PhD students Eleanor Barnett (@eleanorrbarnett), Trina Moseley (@trina_moseley) and Lewis Defrates (@lewisdefrates) talk to Doing History in Public about their experiences running sessions with primary school children for the Faculty of History’s History for Schools programme. What was your History for Schools session about and how does it link with your research? Eleanor and Trina:…