Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department of History at the University of Reading and Professor of History at the University of São Paulo,…Read More >
Heritage & Creativity
How I reunited the most important documents in English theatre history for the first time in 200 years
Most of what we know about the beginnings of English professional theatre as a financial enterprise and artistic endeavour comes from thousands of manuscript pages in the archive of Philip…Read More >
Faces of War: The Hidden Stories of Female Fighters
In the 2022 Fairbrother Lecture, Chessie Baldwin explores what it means to be a woman in war and how history can warp our view of the contributions women make to…Read More >
Dragomans – tourist industry experts of the nineteenth century
For World Tourism Day 2022, we’re taking a historical perspective. Rachel Mairs writes about dragomans, the accomplished tourism professionals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Rachel is the…Read More >
Soviet monuments are being toppled – this gives the spaces they occupied a new meaning
In the Latvian capital of Riga, an 80-metre concrete obelisk came crashing down in late August to the loud cheers of a nearby crowd. It was created to commemorate the Soviet Army’s…Read More >
Is it wrong to steal from large corporations? A philosopher debates the ethics
If you ask someone whether it’s okay to steal, chances are most people would say no. This absolutist approach – stealing is wrong, no matter what – finds philosophical backing…Read More >
Black British Women’s Theatre: Encountering intersectionality through the archives
In the summer of 2020, as the UK’s first COVID-19 lockdown gave way (at least for some) to the ‘rule of six’, television screens and social media feeds filled with…Read More >
Sport and the anti-apartheid movement: evidence from the archives
“Sport has the power to change the world.” These memorable words of Nelson Mandela will be the leitmotif for a conference about the role of archives in defending and promoting…Read More >
