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.
A Legacy of Change
An MRC exhibition to commemorate Stephen Lawrence Day 2022.
Explore items from the Modern Records Centre's collections on anti-racism and community action. The exhibition includes sections on 'Youth against racism', 'Community against racism', 'Arts against racism' and 'Rock against racism'.
In Solidarity - See our latest exhibition
Throughout history people have fought for their beliefs. Faced with war, injustice or persecution, individuals and communities have protested not just for themselves but in solidarity with others.
This exhibition seeks to highlight the different methods by which people have sought to make their voice heard. Namely through protest, the arts, collective action and by supporting those in need.
It is hoped that this historical lens might bolster a sense of common humanity as we stand with those in Ukraine.
Young Women's Christian Association magazines online!
The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) grew out of 'missions' to help working women founded in the 1850s. As the name of the organisation suggests, there was a strong religious grounding to much of the YWCA's welfare work, but the organisation was also involved in campaigns relating to education, physical wellbeing and other social issues.
The Modern Records Centre has a large but incomplete series of magazines and journals published by the YWCA between 1884-1970. Editions of the journals for 1884, 1887, 1892-1898, 1900, 1906-1920, have been digitised and are available to read through our online catalogue.
The journals include a mix of religious study and advice, serialised stories (often melodramatic), news of YWCA work at home and abroad (including missionary work), and articles on a range of social and political issues relating to women, including employment, education, fashion, suffrage and the First World War.
