Archives in depth

Frustrating, glorious, time-consuming, engrossing, side-tracking, revelatory, challenging, overwhelming - archival research triggers different responses in every individual.
This series of blog posts and articles written by some of our researchers and volunteers includes examinations of particular topics through sources held at the MRC, along with some broader reflections on the process of research.
A study into conditions for the poor in the nineteenth century
Miša Hennin
Volunteering at the MRC: My video analysis of Grunwick
Gabriel Wynne
The Railway Review, 1900-1948
Hannah Reeves
Britain in the 1970s: Trade union history
Louise Machin
Britain in the 1970s: History of homosexuality
Vikki Willcox
Britain in the 1970s: History of the permissive society
Lucy Paull
Britain in the 1970s: History of Warwick students
Andrew Burchell
Britain in the 1970s: History of Warwick University
Eliza Fleming
Britain in the 1970s: History of punk and crisis of masculinity
Anastasia Schulze
Researching Crossman
Series of articles by Andrew Burchell and Marie-Astrid Purton, following research funded by the URSS scheme