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Lizzie, an Indian elephant, seen hauling a heavy load through the streets of Sheffield.

Document of the Week: The Elephant Munition "War-Worker"

Laura Wales

Published 15th September, 2025 3 min read

An extract from Captain Charlie May’s diary from June 1916.

Document of the Week: Captain Charlie May’s Diaries

Laura Wales

Published 4th August, 2025 3 min read

A typed document with text in two columns. At the head of the page there is a title that reads A Novel in a Nutshell.

Document of the Week: “Kismet”, the First Published Work of Walter de la Mare (1895)

Laura Wales

Published 19th May, 2025 3 min read

The original cover image on The Great Gatsby, a painting by artist Francis Cugat, titled “Celestial Eyes.” It was painted in 1924, one year before the release of The Great Gatsby. It depicts two large eyes, eyebrows, and a mouth, all disembodied on a blue background.

100 Years Since F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was Published

Laura Wales

Published 10th April, 2025 6 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 illustration by Joseph Syddall. The character of Tess, a young woman wearing a dress and a bonnet, tries to evade the sexual advances of Alec, a man stood at the other side of the field.

Document of the Week: "Tess of the D’Urbervilles" (1891)

Laura Wales

Published 10th February, 2025 3 min read

A black and white photograph of George Orwell, a man with dark hair, a moustache, and smart dress.

75 Years Since the Death of George Orwell

Laura Wales

Published 21st January, 2025 3 min read

An arrangement of sweets in two small shoes.

Saint Nicholas Day

Laura Wales

Published 6th December, 2024 2 min read

A black and white photograph of eleven men standing in a row. They are all wearing dark suits. These men make up the Dawes Committee.

100 Years Since The Dawes Plan Was Accepted

Laura Wales

Published 16th August, 2024 5 min read

A black and white photograph of Joseph Conrad, an older man with a moustache and beard, wearing a suit. To his right, there is a photograph of a sail boat at sea.

100th Anniversary of the Death of Joseph Conrad

Laura Wales

Published 3rd August, 2024 3 min read

A photograph of Anne Frank. She is a young girl with dark hair that falls at her chin. Her hair is pinned back with a clip. She wears a shirt with a small collar and a blazer. She doesn't look directly at the camera, looking off to the right. She is smiling widely.

80 years since Anne Frank's final diary entry

Laura Wales

Published 1st August, 2024 4 min read

A compilation of illustrations of a young boy alerting his father about the outbreak of war, and the progressions he reads about in the newspaper throughout the course of the day.

110 Years Since the First World War Began

Laura Wales

Published 28th July, 2024 6 min read

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