archives

Collection tours at the museum can lead to surprising discoveries—as the tale of the Cutteslowe Walls in Oxford proves.

The Daily Herald Archive records political milestones, but also illuminates how the newspaper interpreted these developments.

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.

One of the first collections we have been working on in our Archive Management Project is that of British animator Run Wrake (1965–2012).

You may already know about the objects we look after, but did you know we also have a huge number of paper-based archives?

Emily Rees discusses how private archives, like the C.O. Stanley Pye Collection, can offer invaluable insights into the history of media in Britain.

Fiona Philip and Daniel Mutibwa of the University of Leeds write about their project to unlock the potential of our Daily Herald Archive.

As the Football Association pays tribute to its founding fathers this week, we take a look at football photojournalism in our collection.

Thomas Galifot from the Musée d’Orsay recently visited our archives to research female photographers from 1839–1945 for a Paris exhibition.

Eleanor Macnair, Media Space Press Officer, looks at the Tony Ray-Jones collection and the exhibition that will launch Media Space at the Science Museum.