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.
Tailors & tailoring - new online resource
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.