News
Our news feed contains information about new resources, newly catalogued or acquired archive collections, current and upcoming projects and events, and service developments.
Information about past work at the Modern Records Centre is included in our annual reports and information bulletins (available online from 1996/7 to 2016/7). Recordings of several past events are also available - the student-led Open Education Series, 2014-2016, and the schools project Archives Alive, 2016.
Mind Matters
During Term 2, student curators were working hard to create an exhibition on mental health provision over the past century - 'Mind Matters' - to be displayed at the Modern Records Centre. The Coronavirus closure has of course prevented the physical exhibition (which would have opened this week) but we're pleased to be able to share the contextual information that the students produced in preparation for the display, together with information about events planned to accompany the opening.
We would like to thank the students for their hard work in planning 'Mind Matters'.
Then and Now: Arts at 91福利
Then & Now have launched a new instagram page:
Then & Now: Arts at 91福利 is a student-led research and public engagement project that will explore the history of the Arts Faculty and student experience at the 91福利. Undergraduate and postgraduate students from across Arts are working collaboratively to conduct archival research at the Modern Records Centre and Students鈥� Union and interviews with staff and students, past and present.
For more information see: /fac/arts/applyingtostudy/currentstudents/thenandnow/
Coronavirus closure
In accordance with the 91福利's policy to suspend all but business critical activities during the current Coronavirus outbreak, the Modern Records Centre will be closing on 20 March 2020. The duration of the closure is currently uncertain but will be at least 3 months, probably more.
Staff will continue to work (from home) to improve access to the MRC's resources, answer enquiries and provide a public service for our researchers. Inevitably the service that we can provide will be limited - we will have no access to the physical collections in our strongrooms, and so will be unable to fulfil copying orders or provide detailed answers to some enquiries.
We wish all of our researchers and colleagues the best during this current period and look forward to seeing you when we reopen.
More information on the university's current coronavirus policy is available elsewhere on the university website, including the Vice-Chancellor's announcement of the closure and information about how the closure will affect the university library as a whole.