Digitisation of a Letterbook of John Nelson Darby
I am pleased to announce a new addition to the digitised material for the Christian Brethren Archive, a letterbook ofContinue Reading
Author: Jessica Smith
Creative Arts Archivist at the John Rylands Library
What The Papers Said – the Editorial Correspondence of C.P. Scott in the Guardian Archive
I have now come to the final week of work on the Guardian Archive. C.P. Scott’s editorial correspondence series hasContinue Reading
Volunteer Projects on the Guardian Archive
As the most recent cataloguing project on the Guardian archive draws to a close, our project volunteers, Jane Donaldson andContinue Reading
The Suffragettes Incarcerated
Jane Donaldson writes: Working through the letters from the Pankhurst family to C.P. Scott in the Guardian archives, I haveContinue Reading
The Sons of C.P. Scott, and The Scott Trust
This month’s blog post focuses upon Edward Taylor Scott, and John Russell Scott, sons of C.P. Scott, both of whomContinue Reading
Albert Cartwright and the Anti-War Press during the Boer War
John McCrory writes: Opposition to the Boer war was deeply unpopular, with any newspaper taking a critical stance suffering fromContinue Reading
A Tribute to Clare Hollingworth
In a slight departure from my usual era of the Guardian archive, this month’s blog post is a tribute toContinue Reading
The Manchester Guardian and L.S. Lowry
My find for this month from the Guardian archive is yet another example of the way in which the newspaperContinue Reading
C.P. Scott and the Boer War on the 170th Anniversary of his Birth
John McCrory writes: On the 170th anniversary of the birth of C.P. Scott, it is appropriate to focus on a period in whichContinue Reading
Paul Ignotus and Florence Matay
One of the great strengths of a correspondence collection is the insight it can provide into personal experiences of historicContinue Reading