Online exhibitions and image galleries
Online archive exhibitions and image galleries of documents on a wide range of themes.
Digitised documents are also included in the resources for Warwick modules and digital collections.
Exhibitions:
125 Years of the Beautiful Game
Documents about football, politics and society
Art in the Archives
Pictures and stories from our holdings
Crafting Resistance: The art of Chilean political prisoners
Exhibition co-curated by Jasmine Gideon, Birkbeck, University of London, and Gloria Miqueles, Chilean ex-political prisoner, held at the MRC in 2017.
Dare to be free: Revolt and Reform in Regency England
Documents relating to the fight for political and social reform during the 1780s-1830s
International Transport Workers' Federation
Highlights from the archives of the ITF
Jack Jones: A Memorial
Tribute to the former General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union
King Coal
Documents about the turbulent story of coal mining and its effect on British life
Let Robeson Sing
Documents relating to the campaign to overthrow the McCarthyite travel ban on actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson
The National Union of Railwaymen, 1913-2013
Highlights from the archives of the NUR
The Olympics: Playing Political Games
Politics and sport - from the fascism of 1936 Berlin to the Cold War controversies of Moscow in 1980
'The Power of the Cinema'
Documents about the film industry during the 1920s and 1930s
Protest and Survive: Peace Movements after the H-Bomb
Highlights from the MRC's anti-nuclear archives
"Rouse, Ye Women"
Documents about the 1910 Cradley Heath Chain Makers' Strike
The Struggle for Equal Pay
Documents relating to the campaign for equal pay in the first half of the 20th century
The Trades Union Congress at 150
Timeline featuring highlights from the TUC archives
The Transport and General Workers' Union
Highlights from the archives of the TGWU
The Victorian City
Selection of sources on the themes of 'Crime and punishment', 'Employment and trade unionism', 'Housing and welfare', 'Immigration and the Jewish community', 'Political revolt and reform', and 'Women'.
Image galleries:
A General Strike photograph album
Press photos of Britain during the 1926 General Strike
Chilean Solidarity
Documents about the UK solidarity movement following the 1973 Chilean coup
The Defence of Ethiopia
Documents relating to the international response to the Italian occupation of Abyssinia in 1935
Freedom on two wheels
Documents relating to the New Woman and the bicycle - fashion, racing and romance
The Land Worker: rural life between the wars
A radical view of rural life between 1915-1934 from the journal of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers
Nazi Germany in 1936
Press photos of Berlin during preparations for the Olympics and Nuremburg
Pioneering Head Mistresses
Portraits from an 1890 photograph album
The Public Face of Revolution
Snapshots of Russia in 1925
Revolutionary Germany, 1918-1924
Photographs of Germany during the tumultuous years immediately after the First World War
"Rob you of your beer"
Publicity material from the British fight against prohibition, 1920-1926
Science and technology at Warwick
Photographs from the University Archive
Transport strike, 1911
Photographs and other images relating to the national transport strikes
United We Stand: Photographs of the Workers' Union, 1911-1921
From Charlie Chaplin to the Liverpool dock strike - photos of demonstrations, strikes and social events
