To celebrate Record Store Day, we’ve picked our top 5 record-related favourites from our collection—though they might not all be quite what you’d expect!
We’re home to over three million items of historical and cultural significance. Our world-class collection encompasses iconic objects and remarkable archives in the areas of photography, cinematography, television, sound and new media. Peek behind the scenes and discover some hidden treasures…
Kathryn Penny recounts a very special Frankenstein-themed event which took film fans from novels to nostril expanders…
The Daily Herald Archive records political milestones, but also illuminates how the newspaper interpreted these developments.
This year’s Widescreen Weekend opened with Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, which launched the yearly film festival on Thursday 12 October.
Commissioned by the charity Shelter, Nick Hedges photographed Bradford in 1969–70, documenting the housing crisis of the time with images that capture the links between domestic life and industry.
As well as books and journals, our library is home to self-published zines covering community broadcasting and pirate radio.
The Andor Kraszna-Krausz Archive offers a fascinating glimpse into the Focal Press founder’s travels across Europe.
Photographer Keeley Bentley writes about her experience researching in our archives, and the links she found between our collection and Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland.
A life-size cardboard cut-out of the Spice Girls might not be something you would expect to find in a museum store…
One of the first collections we have been working on in our Archive Management Project is that of British animator Run Wrake (1965–2012).
As well as people and landscapes, stereo-images were also used to capture fantastic views of the Moon.
You may already know about the objects we look after, but did you know we also have a huge number of paper-based archives?