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  1. 3 hours ago

    There is one week left to apply for our Collection Care Team Leader position. We're looking for a Collection Care professional to participate in work to prepare for an Archives relocation programme. Learn more about the role and apply here:

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  2. 6 hours ago

    #1966, won the General Election in convincing style with Barbara Castle retaining her East seat. Here she is centre-stage at the Labour Party Conference held in Brighton the following October. The ‘White Heat’ of the sixties had now begun!

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    Mar 29

    Did you now it's five years since the first same-sex marriage took place in the UK? 🌈👩‍❤️‍👩👨‍❤️‍👨 The 2013 Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act introduced civil marriage for same-sex couples in England and Wales. Here's the Act, from our friends at

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  4. Mar 29

    We're looking for a Collection Care professional to participate in work to prepare for an Archives relocation programme. Learn more about the Collection Care Team Leader role and apply here:

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  5. Mar 29

    March also sees the celebration of . While authors now have a lot of creative freedom, in the Jacobean period things were a bit more strict. Here is an Act to prevent playwrights and actors from abusing 'the holy name of God' by imposing a fine of £10.

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  6. Mar 28

    In March 1834, the Martyrs were sentenced to penal servitude in Australia for forming a farm-workers society. This caused great anger among the working classes as trade unions petitioned Parliament to support the Labourers- see debate below

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    Mar 27

    Enjoyed researching this little known aspect of Airey Neave's parliamentary career, with thanks to and for their help. Airey Neave: working for science in parliament - Sound and vision blog

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  8. Mar 27

    Today we are focusing on the infamous 7th Earl of Pembroke. He was twice convicted of murder, but used the privilege of peerage and a royal pardon to escape punishment. From our collections, here is a petition he wrote while in the Tower of London for blasphemy.

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  9. Mar 26

    We are currently recruiting a Collection Care Team Leader to help us prepare for an Archives relocation programme. To learn more about this role and to apply, please visit:

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  10. Mar 26

    50 years ago this month, Learie become the first black person to be awarded a . The former cricketer famously sued the Imperial Hotel, London for racial discrimination. In this 1943 Hansard extract, Ernest Bevin makes reference to this incident

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  11. Mar 26

    This is the first tweet for our new series where we take a document from our collections related to a specific region. So, we start off in the ceremonial county of with this plan for Hospital that dates back to 1829

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  12. Mar 26

    We’re proud to announce that our Information & Records Management Service has been nominated for Information and Records Management Society Team of the Year! If you’re an IRMS member you can vote here

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  13. Mar 25

    in 1807, despite hostility from other groups the abolitionists remained persistent which resulted in the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. Passed by Parliament, this Act marked the beginning of the end for the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

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  14. Mar 22

    We're looking for a Collection Care professional to participate in work to prepare for an Archives relocation programme. Learn more about the Collection Care Team Leader role and apply here:

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  15. Mar 22

    1808, Caroline Norton was born. A champion of laws relating to the rights of married and divorced women, she was instrumental in the passing of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857. This Act established a civil court to hear divorce cases.

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  16. Mar 21

    Its World Poetry Day so we remember one of the greats - Rudyard Kipling. Author of the famous short story Jungle Book, Kipling’s art of poetry is renowned. From our collections we have an original program of the funeral service.

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  17. Mar 20

    Our new 'Inside the Act Room' blog is available to read on our website. 'Cataloguing Tom Merry' describes a recent project to catalogue the 34 full colour cartoons we hold by the artist Tom Merry. Be sure to have a read at

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  18. Mar 20

    In March 1616, Sir Walter Raleigh was released from the Tower of London by James I after being convicted for conspiring against the King. From our collections, here is the 1558 draft of an Act to confirm his letters patent issued by Queen Elizabeth.

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  19. Mar 19

    The 1649 Parliament didn’t do things by halves- they abolish the monarchy & now it was time to pull down the shutters on the House of Lords leaving many a peer of the realm redundant... The buzz-word around the corridors of power was ‘Oh no he didn’t’!!

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  20. Mar 18

    March 1968 saw Vietnam demos take place in London inspiring The Rolling Stones to write ‘Street Fighting Man’. From the same era here are some young anti-war activists testing a Bobby’s patience outside Parliament with their protests.

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