News
Our news feed contains information about new resources, newly catalogued or acquired archive collections, current and upcoming projects and events, and service developments.
Information about past work at the Modern Records Centre is included in our annual reports and information bulletins (available online from 1996/7 to 2016/7). Recordings of several past events are also available - the student-led Open Education Series, 2014-2016, and the schools project Archives Alive, 2016.
New student curated exhibition
The latest exhibition at the MRC has been curated by students from the module FR 256: The Right in France from the Dreyfus Affair to Le Pen, convened by Dr Jessica Wardhaugh. The exhibition is titled 'Occupied France: Collaboration, Resistance, Remembrance' and includes a wide range of items, from reports and correspondence to postcards and memorabilia. The exhibition will be on until late April and is open to all.
Explore the Minority Arts Advisory Service Archive in our new exhibition!
The Modern Records Centre holds publications, photographs, reports and other archive material produced and collected by the between 1976-1995.
Our current exhibition highlights the work of MAAS in Britain and looks at some of the rich cultural and artistic activities the organisation supported during its 20 years of existence.
Our exhibition space is open to all visitors.
Front-line City: The Cold War and Berlin
Our new exhibition marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Front-line City: The Cold War and Berlin focuses on Berlin during the Cold War - from the post-Second World War division to the events of 1989 - and European fears of nuclear war. The display draws on a range of collections at the Modern Records Centre, including documents from the archives of the Trades Union Congress, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Richard Crossman and Amnesty International.
