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An illustration of three cartoon men carrying a large roasted turkey over their heads. A Christmas dinner menu features in the background on the left.

Document of the Week: Christmas Dinner During the Second World War

Nishah Malik

Published 15th December, 2025 2 min read

An illustrated puzzle with the title The Illustrated London News. The puzzle reads A merry Christmas and a happy new year, depicted by illustrations.

Document of the Week: “Christmas Crackers” (1847)

Chloe Haney

Published 8th December, 2025 3 min read

A photograph of a wrapped gift with the test How to Pack your Christmas Gifts around it. A hand is cutting a ribbon around the gift.

Document of the Week: How to Pack Your Christmas Gifts in 1931

Nishah Malik

Published 1st December, 2025 3 min read

An illustration from 1847 of two women and two children in winter clothing.

Document of the Week: Winter Fashions Advertisement, The Illustrated London News (1847)

Dr Catherine Bateson

Published 24th November, 2025 4 min read

A print of politicians dancing around a maypole with the decapitated heads of the Cato Street conspirators atop it. Captioned A May Day Garland for 1820.

Document of the Week: A Coded Speech Relating to the Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820

Dr Mary Wills

Published 17th November, 2025 5 min read

Six portraits of Indian soldiers.

Document of the Week: “Soldier Types in the Indian Contingent”, 1915

Nishah Malik

Published 10th November, 2025 4 min read

Document of the Week: “Northern Ireland Observed” (1980s)

Dr Tommy Dolan

Published 3rd November, 2025 4 min read

Document of the Week: Bus boycotts in South Africa under apartheid, 1957

Dr Mary Wills

Published 27th October, 2025 2 min read

Text reading The American Women's Club Magazine. The Debating Society. The February Debate.

Document of the Week: Debating Birth Control in the 1920s

Nishah Malik

Published 13th October, 2025 3 min read

A page showing one column of typed text, cropped.

Document of the Week: “Extracts from the report of Doctor Karel Sperber on Auschwitz and other concentration camps” (1947)

Dr Charlie Hall

Published 6th October, 2025 2 min read

Greyscale photograph of Major Robert Manley shaking hands with a civilian pilot.

Document of the Week: "Private Armies in Great Britain"

Dr Tommy Dolan

Published 29th September, 2025 4 min read

Cropped page of typed text

Document of the Week: Strike of Indian indentured labourers in Kenya, 1914

Dr Mary Wills

Published 22nd September, 2025 3 min read

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