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Like many members of the AM team, Ana Attrill-Klein, who recently joined our Customer Experience team, has a background working in libraries and archives. In this blog, Ana shares how these experiences have strengthened her belief in archival materials being accessible to all.

We designed AM Quartex with ease of use and efficient working practices front of mind. In a recent webinar, we explored some of the key processes in Quartex that ease digital asset management; here are five of them.

Eleanor Cambridge, Assistant Editor at AM explores the newest module for Interwar Culture, focusing on two fashion designers from the period, who have been largely forgotten.

Courtney Priday, Assistant Editor at AM, dives into our Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900 collection to find out how Christmas would have been spent aboard ships during the Age of Sail. These documents provide fantastic insight into the relationships of crew members, their leisure activities and general morale aboard ship.

Editorial Assistant Stewart Pospischil takes a look back through Mass Observation Project and the 2004 Spring directive giving us an insight into what the British public really thought about the BBC. 

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.

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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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.

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.

AM editor, Beth Snyder takes a look into the Mass Observation Online archives, looking back at Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953. 

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. 

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.

Zachary Bodnar, Archivist at Congregational Library & Archives explains the importance of display and metadata when presenting unique assets.

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! 

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?

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.

Dearest Readers, break out the Madeira. The day eagerly awaited throughout the ton is finally here. Bridgerton has returned! Here at AM, this is all the excuse we need to go on the hunt for scandal – and what better place to find it than in Eighteenth Century Journals, where a real-life precursor to the infamous Lady Whistledown lays society’s secrets bare. Prepare to meet Mrs Crackenthorpe, a Lady that knows everything.

I recently spoke to a group of students from Villiers Park Educational Trust as part of their programme marking LGBTQ+ month. The presentation focused on a remarkable personal collection from Sex & Sexuality: the Lynn Edward Harris Papers (held at the ONE archive in California).

Is there a way of achieving more product through a different process? 

On Sunday 20th March the lights will go out for the start of the first Grand Prix of the 2022 Formula 1 season. Several of our recent resources contain mentions of the sport in the early days – namely The Gilded Age and Progressive Era and Interwar Culture – and it is these that I want to explore to get us all ready for the new F1 season.

So far March has seen World Book Day, International Women’s Day and the publication of the final module of Mass Observation Project 1981-2009, which focuses on the years 2000-2009.

Have you ever been asked to build a business case in order to move a project forward in your organisation? Did the mere thought of it cause anxiety and confusion? Aren’t business cases just … for business? Aerin Bowers, Head of Sales for Canada, discusses.

Shrove Tuesday is fast approaching, so what better time to reach into Food and Drink in History for some historic pancake recipes?