When I was introduced to the ‘Youth work, volunteerism, and humanitarianism in the work of the YMCA’ project, it was both exciting and overwhelming. Through the Cadbury Research Library (CRL), I had access to the newly catalogued archives of the YMCA’s National Council, which span from 1772 to 2021. While our supervisor, Dr Sarah Kenny, … Continue reading ““Spectacular Teenage Disturbances” – Surveying the YMCA archives – Carina Walker (CRI 2025)”
Tag: Cadbury Research Library
Meeting Medieval Manuscripts in the Cadbury Research Library – by Lucy Snow (CRI 2025)
My name is Lucy Snow, and this year I will be completing my MA in English Literature, the culmination of four years of studying at the University of Birmingham. My project, in collaboration with Dr Emily Wingfield and Dr Liv Robinson, is interested in the redesign of the Meeting Medieval Manuscripts module offered as part … Continue reading “Meeting Medieval Manuscripts in the Cadbury Research Library – by Lucy Snow (CRI 2025)”
The Sound of the ‘Big Bang’: Cataloguing the Douglas French Archive
UG Researcher Daniel Deegan outlines some of the benefits of spending 5 weeks transcribing audio cassettes – little did the speakers at the Westminster and City Conferences know that the next person to hear their recordings would be him!
The Realities of Research and the Joys of World War One Plays
Lydia Manley (BA English) shares what she learnt on her research quest to discover why one particular World War One play became such a global success.
‘French Verse in Renaissance Britain’: A Joint Honours Dream
‘Women were responsible for producing some of the most important and popular texts translated in Renaissance Britain’ – Lucy Painter shares some of her findings from 5 weeks studying a range of translated books from Renaissance Britain.
A Journey Through the Ages: One Page at a Time
Amber Osborne (BA English) shares her experience of undertaking research to help develop a brand new final year English Literature module, ‘Histories of the Book’.
Researching Missionary Photography in Cadbury Research Library
In another post from the archives, Charlotte McKnight describes her work with History’s Simone Laqua-O’Donnell and Ivana Frlan from the Cadbury Research Library to identify photography of children in missions (particularly the children of missionaries) – and medical photographs in the Church Missionary Society Archive which is held at the Cadbury Research Library.
Art for English
To help enhance the study of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, Mary McGowan spent five weeks researching and cataloguing its amazing cultural collections and their links with Undergraduate modules, creating an innovative website for all UoB students of English Literature.
The Sound of the ‘Big Bang’: Cataloguing the Douglas French Archive
As a special advisor to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Geoffrey Howe, Douglas French was able to gather an extensive (and hitherto unseen) private archive of material relating to the conduct of economic policy in the 1980’s and in particular to the ‘Big Bang’ in financial services of 1986. Here, John Tibbits (BA History and Political Science) explains how he was given the daunting task of digitising this archive.
Sewers, Sermons & Shakespeare: Birmingham’s Civic Revolution
‘The people of Birmingham are surrounded by a richer past than we know’, writes Henry Jones, who worked on a project researching and celebrating the heritage of George Dawson and his Shakespeare Memorial Library in Birmingham.