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A document titled Women-Ridden England in large black serif text. There is a line drawn illustration of a group of women dressed in the same hat and outfit.

Document of the Week: “Woman-Ridden England”, 1928

Chloe Haney

Published 21st April, 2025 3 min read

A piece of aged paper with the title Sanitary Rhymes. There is a subheading printed more centrally, Personal Precautions Against Cholera, And All Kinds of Fever.

Document of the Week: Sanitary Rhymes by Alfred Power (1871)

Dr Tommy Dolan

Published 14th April, 2025 3 min read

An extract from a TV guide, outlining Nai Zindagi - Naya Jeevan airing at 9am.

Document of the Week: BBC Programmes for Asian Immigrants in Britain (1970s)

Nishah Malik

Published 7th April, 2025 3 min read

Neat cursive handwriting written in thick black ink, making up the body of a letter.

Document of the Week: Mico Charity Schools in Trinidad, 1839

Mary Wills

Published 31st March, 2025 3 min read

A notice on sleeping sickness from the Nyasaland Government Gazette, 1911.

Document of the Week: Sleeping Sickness in North-Eastern Rhodesia, 1911

Nishah Malik

Published 24th March, 2025 3 min read

A black and white photograph of a parade of 12,000 soldiers in Liverpool. The photograph shows part of the forty-five minute parade passing by Liverpool’s St. George’s Hall, which had been a recruitment headquarters in the city centre since the war’s outbreak.

Document of the Week: Image of Lord Kitchener’s Liverpool Visit, March 1915

Dr Catherine Bateson

Published 17th March, 2025 3 min read

A black and white photograph of Agatha Christie, a woman with short curly hair, on the telephone. There is a second photograph of her sat at a writing desk, with her body twisted so that she faces the camera, overlayed in a circular frame.

Document of the Week: Agatha Christie’s “The Affair at the Victory Ball” (1923)

Laura Wales

Published 10th March, 2025 3 min read

An aged piece of paper with several illustrations drawn on it in thick pen. It is a letter from a Spanish convent in Lisbon to one in Britain. It uses simple hand-drawn images to convey words, or part of words, in Spanish, often merely because they sound alike. For example, a picture of a wound (herida in Spanish), positioned between K and S, becomes queridas, or dear. Some of the illustrations include a pair of wings, a mother holding two children, a snake, two oars, an envelope, and music notes.

Document of the Week: Secret Codes in the Second World War

Dr Charlie Hall

Published 3rd March, 2025 2 min read

The front cover of a pamphlet titled: A Damnable Treason By a Contagious Plaster of a Plague-Sore. It states Treason in large letters, followed by Plague Sore. There is an illustration of a man with hair down to his ears and a moustache, framed by a border, below the text.

Document of the Week: "A Damnable Treason By a Contagious Plaster of a Plague-Sore" (1641)

Nishah Malik

Published 24th February, 2025 3 min read

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