Themed catalogue searches
This page contains links to 'ready made' or themed searches of our archive catalogues. The results of these searches are not comprehensive lists that show every relevant item in the Modern Records Centre, but instead show a selection of documents on particular themes. You can find information about other relevant archive material by searching our online catalogue.
The links are arranged in four sections: Nations (subjects listed by country), Society (social themes such as gender, race and crime), Ideologies (political), and War and Peace (sources regarding particular conflicts).
The searches within the catalogue can be arranged in date order by clicking on the 'Date' column heading.
Nations:
Pre-20th century British history
British Parliamentary and Electoral Politics, 1774-1835
20th century British history
The First World War: military and aid
The First World War: home front
The First World War: opposition and the peace movement
Fascism in Britain, 1920s-1940s
The Home Front during the Second World War: Civil defence, air raid precautions and the Home Guard
The Home Front during the Second World War: Women at war
Enoch Powell, the 'Rivers of Blood' speech and immigration
Concern over juvenile delinquency and behaviour of children, 1950s
China
The Japanese invasion of China and Sino-Japanese War, 1930s-1940s
Czechoslovakia
Prague Spring and Soviet invasion, 1968
Eastern Africa
France
Occupied France and the French Resistance
French Resistance newspapers and leaflets (digitised)
France and Algerian independence, 1950s-1960s
Germany
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, 1930s-1940s
India
Ireland
Northern Ireland, 1968-1998 (Most archives at the Modern Records Centre were created by sections of the labour movement or left-wing political organisations, and therefore, in most cases, reflect pro-Republican views)
Italy
The Italian invasion of Abyssinia
Poland
Solidarność (Solidarity) movement, 1980s
Russia and the Soviet Union
The "Stalin Revolution": The Purge Era and the Moscow Trials
Reports of visits by delegations or individuals to the Soviet Union, 1919-1960
The Soviet Union and the Second World War
South Africa
Spain
United States of America
Boom, Bust and the New Deal: The US economy in the 1920s and 1930s
Foreign Policy and the Cold War
McCarthyism and anti-Communism during the Cold War
Race, Segregation and Civil Rights
Society:
Crime and punishment
Concern over juvenile delinquency and behaviour of children, 1950s
Education
Education and 'Special Educational Needs'
Education and the curriculum after 1944
Education and gender after 1944
Education, immigration, race and religion after 1944
Education and social class after 1944
Free schools and libertarian education
Gender
The British Home Front during the Second World War: Women at war
Education and gender after 1944
Women's Liberation movements, 1970s-1980s
Race
Britain: Responses towards immigration
Britain: Education, race and religion
Britain: Enoch Powell, the 'Rivers of Blood' speech and immigration
USA: Race, segregation and civil rights
Sport
Ideologies:
Communism:
The "Stalin Revolution": The Purge Era and the Moscow Trials
Reports of visits by delegations or individuals to the Soviet Union
McCarthyism and anti-Communism during the Cold War
Prague Spring and Soviet invasion, 1968
Fascism:
Fascism in Britain, 1920s-1940s
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, 1930s-1940s
War and Peace:
The First World War:
The First World War: military and aid
The First World War: home front
The First World War: opposition and the peace movement
The Second World War:
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, 1930s-1940s
Occupied France and the French Resistance
The British Home Front: Civil defence, air raid precautions and the Home Guard
The British Home Front: Women at war
The Soviet Union and the Second World War
The United States and the Second World War
Other conflicts:
The Japanese invasion of China and Sino-Japanese War, 1930s-1940s
The Italian invasion of Abyssinia
Northern Ireland, 1968-1998 (Most archives at the Modern Records Centre were created by sections of the labour movement or left-wing political organisations, and therefore, in most cases, reflect pro-Republican views)