Blog
Advice and expertise from AM, and special guest posts by leading archivists, academics and librarians from around the world.
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Barking mad: a history of our love for canines
Natalie Dale, editor at AM, alongside other members of the editorial team share their personal highlights of canines featured in some of our collections such as Interwar Culture and Mass Observation Project.
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Tales from the Green Dragon: uncovering lived experiences in HCA records
Graham Moore, PhD student and Associate Lecturer at University of Reading and The National Archives UK, uncovers historical lived experiences in HCA records, now digitised as part of Life at Sea.
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Introducing AM
Adam Matthew is changing. Meet AM.
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Uncovering Indian voices in the records of the East India Company
Jade Bailey, Assistant Editor at AM takes a deep dive into India Office Records, E uncovering glimpses of colonial experiences in the newly digitised volumes of correspondence from IOR/E/4/1084, available now.
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A trip to the seaside with Victorians on Film
Sarah Birse, Assistant Editor at AM opens a window into the everyday life of the Victorians through new digitised footage from the British Film Institute.
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Mass Observation: Remembering Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation
AM editor, Beth Snyder takes a look into the Mass Observation Online archives, looking back at Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953.
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Defending Vera: Troops came to the defence of the forces’ sweetheart after attacks from Parliament (1944)
Guest contributor Clare Church, a PhD student at Aberystwyth University explores the story of the troops that came to the defence of the forces' sweetheart after attacks from Parliament in 1944.
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Twenty-five years of Shakespeare's Globe
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the iconic Globe Theatre. Exploring the rich collections available in Shakespeare’s Globe Archive: Theatres, Players and Performance unearths the pioneering work behind the theatre’s construction and the incredible painstaking methods involved in creating an authentic space for an audience to enjoy early modern plays as they were originally performed.
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Launching a digital collection
Zachary Bodnar, Archivist at Congregational Library & Archives explains the importance of display and metadata when presenting unique assets.
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Time and Tide goes digital!
Exciting news for researchers, teachers, and enthusiasts of interwar magazines and culture: digital publisher AM has launched the 1920s Module of its Interwar Culture product!
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How to use metadata-related features in Quartex to create discovery pathways
Digital archives/collections are heavily dependent upon the scope and quality of metadata for their usability and searchability, but how do you leverage metadata effectively to create meaningful pathways for discovery?
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Industries, disco and diplomacy in Malaysia, 1980
Foreign Office Files for South East Asia, module II: Foundations of Economic Growth and Industrialisation, 1967-1980 - the latest addition to AM's Archives Direct platform – features a broad selection of documents from the National Archives, UK relating to Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. This collection can be used to chart substantial economic development across the region, and it’s no surprise that many files record visits made by monarchs, presidents, ministers and diplomats to all manner of enterprises – occasionally with some surprising details and asides.