This week sees the launch of a national archives campaign. The Archives & Records Association (UK & Ireland) and the National Archives have come together to raise awareness of archives, their value to society and the impact they have, every day, on individual lives. Archives are full of fascinating content and most of it isn’t available from Google. While you’ll need a little more time to explore archives – you’ll be amazed to find what lies within.
A good time then to explore what’s in our archive. Each collection in the UEA Archive (all 20th century) offers a diverse and sprawling web of information. We’ve highlighted some of the subject areas covered in our archive in an A-Z index and you’ll get more help from our web pages. Archive staff would also be happy to offer a steer, and it’s worth asking us to check any relatively well-known named individual you’re working on, as we hold a great deal of correspondence.
Random picks from UEA Archive
- Manuscripts of suffragettes who were friends and contemporaries of Christobel and Sylvia Pankhurst.
- Papers and diaries of a journalist who was held hostage in Peking, 1967-69.
- Photographs of J.D. Salinger at home.
- Tots and Quots (a dining club of young scientists destined for eminence in the scientific world).
- WWII civilian casualty surveys; from crush syndrome to cake sales, splinter wounds to cinema attendance.
For more about the national campaign www.exploreyourarchive.org
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