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.
Early miners' society archives catalogued
The National Union of Mineworkers archives includes sources relating to both the NUM and to earlier district or area organisations. The first five collections have now been catalogued and can be seen at the Modern Records Centre.
The Olympics: Playing Political Games
New exhibition at the MRC illustrating the politics and protests involved in hosting the Olympic Games.
Coal Not Dole: exhibition at the MRC
The new exhibition at the Modern Records Centre marks the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1984/5 miners' strike.