This month we focus on firefighters, highlighting descriptions for the records of fire and rescue and civil defence services, with an empasis on descriptions for the papers of men and women working for these services during the Second World War.
Illustration: photograph of fire engine, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, from Geograph British Isles; copyright © Keith Evans and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
University of the Arts London Archives and Special Collections Centre, in collaboration with The British Postal Museum & Archive, presents Designs on Delivery: GPO Posters from 1930 to 1960. The exhibition at the Well Gallery – and online here on the Archives Hub – focuses on a period when the Post Office was at the cutting edge of poster design and mass communication. It explores how the GPO translated, often complex, messages to the public in order to educate them about the services offered, by using text, image, and colour.
The Archives Hub website now has online extras: exclusively online, an additional eight posters representing the range of themes adopted by the General Post Office in their advertising.
Illustration: John Armstrong (1893-1973) ‘Mail Coach A.D. 1784’ (1935) reference The Royal Mail Archive POST 110/3175; copyright © Royal Mail Group Ltd and courtesy of The British Postal Museum & Archive.
University of the Arts London Archives and Special Collections Centre, in collaboration with The British Postal Museum & Archive, presents Designs on Delivery: GPO Posters from 1930 to 1960. The exhibition at the Well Gallery – and online here on the Archives Hub – focuses on a period when the Post Office was at the cutting edge of poster design and mass communication. It explores how the PO translated, often complex, messages to the public in order to educate them about the services offered, by using text, image, and colour.
As part of the exhibition, the Well Gallery will be showing on loop Night Mail (1936) which the British Film Institute calls "one of the most popular and instantly recognised films in British film history … one of the most critically acclaimed films … [of the] documentary film movement".
Illustration: poster designed by Pat Keely (died 1970) for the film Night Mail, reference The Royal Mail Archive POST 109/377; copyright © Royal Mail Group Ltd and courtesy of The British Postal Museum & Archive.
In 1936, a military revolt against the Spanish government led to a war involving Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, and brought anti-fascist volunteers to Spain from around the world.in defence of democracy.
This month we highlight descriptions for the papers of political campaigners, historians, and International Brigades volunteers, the records of aid organisations, and descriptions for collections of posters, photographs, and interviews with veterans of the Spanish Civil War.
llustration: drawing by Basque refugee children of an air raid; reproduced by permission of People’s History Museum.
As we start to enjoy the beautiful British summer time, here at the Archives Hub our thoughts often turn to beer and beer gardens. We thought we ought to celebrate this by devoting our August feature to pubs and all things hostelry and alcohol related.
We are highlighting descriptions for the records of breweries, licensed premises, and trade associations, plus the papers of pub users – and temperance campaigners.
Illustration: The Hub (no relation) pub, Brighton. Photo © Simon Carey and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
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Illustration: Woodcraft Folk photo copyright © National Co-operative Archive. From Around the Campfire (Aug 07).
This June’s Collections of the Month examines a partial print of the history of forensic science, shining a light on the descriptions for the papers of physicians, pharmacists, chemists and toxicologists involved in criminal investigations, and records relating to forgery and violent crimes.
Illustration copyright © 2009 The Archives Hub.
This month we are highlighting Steve Cohen‘s collection which he deposited at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre in 2001.
Steve Cohen was a lawyer and anti deportation campaigner who dedicated his life to anti-racism and anti-Semitism, particularly the welfare of immigrants and refugees, and those seeking the right to remain in the UK.
There are links to related materials, mainly in the areas of race relations and immigration.
For more information on the Steve Cohen collection, please contact the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre on 0161 275 2920. We’d like to thank Julie Devonald of the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre, who wrote the text for this month’s description.
Image of a demo rally poster provided by and copyright the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre.
This month we’ve been focussing on the epidemic disease tuberculosis or T.B., once known as ‘consumption’. We highlight the records of hospitals and sanatoriums, the papers of medical professionals, campaigners and organisations, and victims of the disease; illustrated with a range of photographs from Lothian Health Services Archive, The Women’s Library, the People’s History Museum, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
Photo: Illuminated tram-car advertising, 1957, part of Glasgow Corporation’s tuberculosis campaign. Image Wellcome Library, London and copyright © Wellcome Trust, reproduced under Creative Commons licence.
This month ‘Collections of the Month’ highlights the Manchester Histories Festival.
The Manchester Histories Festival is being held in Manchester Town Hall on March 21st 2009, 10am – 5pm. The Festival aims to show that there are many stories woven through the city