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An arrangement of sweets in two small shoes.

Saint Nicholas Day 2025

British Online Archives
Published 6th December, 2025 1 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

80 Years Since the Start of the Nuremberg Trials

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 20th November, 2025 5 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
A dark image of hillside, with a field of bright red poppies in the foreground.

Remembrance Day

British Online Archives
Published 11th November, 2025 1 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
A caricature of seven men sat at a table in candlelight. One man reads from a sheet of paper. A jug is visible on the table.

From Jacobites to Jacobins: The Rise of Radicalism in Georgian Britain

Dr Joe Cozens
Published 6th November, 2025 37 min read
A dark blue background with an illustration of multicoloured fireworks set against it. Underneath, there is text that says Bonfire Night.

Bonfire Night 2025

British Online Archives
Published 5th November, 2025 1 min read
Text on a purple background reading Undergraduate Essay Competition 2025.

BOA Essay Competition 2025: First Place–Esme Thompsett

Esme Thompsett
Published 3rd November, 2025 15 min read

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

Dr Tommy Dolan
Published 3rd November, 2025 4 min read
Text on a purple background reading Undergraduate Essay Competition 2025.

BOA Essay Competition 2025: Second Place–Jabel Philpott

Jabel Philpott
Published 3rd November, 2025 15 min read
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