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.
Land Worker catalogued!
20 boxes of journals and other publications received from Unite the Union have now been catalogued and added to our online catalogue.
Highlights include a , which has been added to the archives of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers. The journal, illustrated with photographs, cartoons and engravings, is a great source on rural life, labour and activism in the 20th century.
Tailors & tailoring - new online resource
Our 'Sweated Trades' digitisation project continues to grow, with the addition of a new section which focuses on the work of tailors (male and female) in the first decades of the 20th century.
Explore sources on pay, working conditions, women home and factory workers, disabled workers and more.
Front-line City: The Cold War and Berlin
Our new exhibition marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Front-line City: The Cold War and Berlin focuses on Berlin during the Cold War - from the post-Second World War division to the events of 1989 - and European fears of nuclear war. The display draws on a range of collections at the Modern Records Centre, including documents from the archives of the Trades Union Congress, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Richard Crossman and Amnesty International.
