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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.
New student curated exhibition
The latest exhibition at the MRC has been curated by students from the module FR 256: The Right in France from the Dreyfus Affair to Le Pen, convened by Dr Jessica Wardhaugh. The exhibition is titled 'Occupied France: Collaboration, Resistance, Remembrance' and includes a wide range of items, from reports and correspondence to postcards and memorabilia. The exhibition will be on until late April and is open to all.
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.
Shooting the Past
On Friday the MRC ran a session on Archives and Research for Year 10 students taking part in the project Shooting the Past.
Shooting the Past is a collaborative project between UniTracks, and the Departments of History and Film & TV at the University of Warwick. The aim of the project is to create a short documentary on their hometown or area. Last week students taking part came to campus for a 2-day event, and were introduced to the basics of documentary style, film production and archival research.
The films will be screened at a special event in March.