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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.
The Olympics: Playing Political Games
Selected documents cover the 1936 Berlin Games which were used as a platform for pro-Nazi propaganda; the cancelled Peoples' Olympiad in Barcelona; International Workers' Olympiads; the 1948 'Austerity Games' held in London and the 1980 Moscow Games, which were boycotted by the USA.