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.
National Asylum Workers Union: sources online!
All issues of the National Asylum Workers Union magazine between 1912-1929 have now been scanned and are available online through the Modern Records Centre's catalogue.
The journal includes information about the activities of the union, conditions for employees and some patients within asylums, and attitudes towards mental health during the early 20th century.
If there are out of copyright documents at the Modern Records Centre that you would like to see online, get in contact with us and help us to prioritise our digitisation programme.
Shirtmaking and the 'sweated trades'
The quintessential 'sweated trade', sources on early 20th century shirtmaking have now been added to our ongoing digitisation project on 'The Sweated Trades: Working life in the early 20th century'.
The digitised sources include information about pay, working conditions and the effects of the First World War, including protests over women's wartime 'invasion' of cutting rooms and a string of strikes.
History of Human Rights in Latin America: new module resources
Digitised sources relating to human rights, politics and the labour movement in Latin America during the first half of the 20th century have been added to the MRC's online resources for University of Warwick modules.
Subjects covered by the resource include: Mexico after the revolution, Argentina before and after Peron, and the establishment of the Confederation of Latin American Workers.
