The start of my walk at Horse Ferry, circling London at the edge of the built city as in Rocque's map of 1746 - the Rocque Ring

England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 is a fully-searchable database containing the names of over 64,000 people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundr...

England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 is a fully-searchable database containing the names of over 64,000 people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundr...

A recent acquisition of letters of Dorothy Bussy, translator and novelist, and of her daughter, the artist Janie Bussy, has now been catalogued.

Abstract. This article considers the making of an archive of environmental activism through the life histories of 100 campaigners involved in environmental

Frederic Madden's Journal, 1826

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Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

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Readers of early Quaker literature cannot fail to be aware of the history of religious persecution of the Quakers in the seventeenth century. Although the Act of Toleration of 1689 marked the end o…

Saturday 29 March – Saturday 6 December 2025 Monday – Friday 9am – 6:30pm Saturday 9am – 4:30pm Closed Sundays Booking is essential. Entry is FREE. Book your free exhibition tickets here The Curious

Exhibition aims to help visitors get inside the minds that thought mercury and roasted apples would cure lice

YouTube video by The Bibliographical Society

The Bibliographical Society was founded in 1892 to promote and encourage study and research in historical, analytical, descriptive and textual bibliography. Since then its scope has widened to include...

In a new series of blogs, NHSN Archive and Library volunteer Maureen Flisher explores the lives and work of some unsung pioneers of natural history in the North East When I became an NHSN Archive

For LGBTQ+ History Month 2025, researcher Tim Jerrome shares how he's using rural archives to research same-sex relationships in the countryside.

The British Library has released a call for applicants for PhD placements in 2025–26. The PhD placement scheme supports the professional development of researchers for future career paths both within ...

To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients...

A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc, Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen