Missed the IRS Seminar? Here’s a digest from recent years
…on future seminars, sign up to our Archives and Behind the Scenes newsletter. November 2018 The first talk was given by Dr Nicola Kirkby of Kings College, London, entitled The…
…on future seminars, sign up to our Archives and Behind the Scenes newsletter. November 2018 The first talk was given by Dr Nicola Kirkby of Kings College, London, entitled The…
This is another set of photographs from the Humphrey Household collection in the National Railway Museum’s archives. Household’s special interest in minor, narrow-gauge and industrial railways led him to go…
…find additional space in our archives to accommodate physical items, as every year the timetable was occupying an extra archive box. We do also continue to collect the digital versions,…
…Amin Foundation, ‘Ugandan Asians exodus‘, Google Arts & Culture The National Archives, ‘Ugandan Asians 40 years on’ project – a wonderful set out resources from the 40th anniversary of the…
…You can find out more about our collection of Sharp Stewart Drawings and all of our archive collections by visiting the page of our Search Engine Library and Archives Centre….
…box. Poetry in the archives Below is the printed broadsheet of a poem entitled “A Dirge over the Broad Gauge”. It was written by A B Berry in May 1892,…
…and booklets concentrating on specific destinations or events, and promoting cheap fares. We have a collection of such material within our archives, and have massively increased the amount of the…
…Deltic Preservation Society. Our next planned display is for the Flying Scotsman Preview Weekend on 28-30 May. We will have a selection of 4472-related items from our archives, and visitors…
…project has been made possible by The National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives. Update 5 December: Thank you for all the entries to the competition: the winner will be contacted…
…identify the plate. We do hold original records for various independent manufacturing companies in our archives and we also hold copies of some that are held elsewhere. Unfortunately, these don’t…
…hours to roast” Alongside the letter was a festive package that included ”a few sausages” and ”a few bones to make some good gravy”. Our archives contain more food-related documents…
…(or the later British Railways Board). Once you know what section they worked in, it will make finding more employment records (held at the National Archives) easier. You would be…