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The MRC is delighted to have joined the top 5% of archives in the UK by being awarded Archive Service Accreditation. Granted by the UK Archive Service Accreditation Committee, the award is recognition of the MRC’s successful demonstration of meeting the UK standard around resourcing, collections management and providing access to collections and is regarded as the UK quality standard for archive services. To find out more about the award see: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/archive-service-accreditation/

Commenting on the MRC being awarded Archive Service Accreditation Helen Ford, Archives Manager for the MRC, said:

"We are extremely pleased to receive this national recognition for our archive service. All of the staff at the MRC deserve acknowledgement and thanks for their hard work and contributions towards this award. We aim to build on this and keep developing our collections management and access activities for all our visitors and researchers."

20 boxes of journals and other publications received from Unite the Union have now been catalogued and added to our online catalogue.

Highlights include a full set of the journal 'Labourer' / 'Land Worker', 1915-1981, which has been added to the archives of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers. The journal, illustrated with photographs, cartoons and engravings, is a great source on rural life, labour and activism in the 20th century.

Our 'Sweated Trades' digitisation project continues to grow, with the addition of a new section which focuses on the work of tailors (male and female) in the first decades of the 20th century.

Explore sources on pay, working conditions, women home and factory workers, disabled workers and more.