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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Canary: 40 years on, an astonishing new archive documents the Battle of the Beanfield. “1 June 2025 sees the 40th anniversary of the ‘Battle of the Beanfield’ – one of the darkest days in contemporary British history, when a convoy of 150 vehicles heading to the people’s free festival at Stonehenge was ambushed in a quiet corner of Wiltshire, contained in a field for several […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/31/the-canary-40-years-on-an-astonishing-new-archive-documents-the-battle-of-the-beanfield/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/31/the-canary-40-years-on-an-astonishing-new-archive-documents-the-battle-of-the-beanfield/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Historic England: Historic England Launches Local Heritage Hub to Unlock Hidden Histories. “Coinciding with this year’s Local History Month, Historic England has launched a new Local Heritage Hub. With nearly 400 locations, every county, city, district, major town, and national park in England now has a dedicated digital page that uncovers its rich and layered history.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/22/historic-england-historic-england-launches-local-heritage-hub-to-unlock-hidden-histories/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/22/historic-england-historic-england-launches-local-heritage-hub-to-unlock-hidden-histories/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Society for the Study of Labour History: Yorkshire Miners Association archives now indexed and catalogued online. “Work at the Modern Records Centre to catalogue the archive of the Yorkshire Miners Association is now complete with a catalogue live online at the University of Warwick website.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/06/society-for-the-study-of-labour-history-yorkshire-miners-association-archives-now-indexed-and-catalogued-online/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/06/society-for-the-study-of-labour-history-yorkshire-miners-association-archives-now-indexed-and-catalogued-online/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Industrial Heritage Support: Historic England Snapshot Survey on the Collection of Developer-Funded Archaeological Archives Published. “Historic England’s Snapshot Survey on the Collection of Developer-Funded Archaeological Archives has now been published as a Historic England Research Report. Conducted as part of the Future for Archaeological Archives Programme, the survey gathered data on […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/industrial-heritage-support-historic-england-snapshot-survey-on-the-collection-of-developer-funded-archaeological-archives-published/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/industrial-heritage-support-historic-england-snapshot-survey-on-the-collection-of-developer-funded-archaeological-archives-published/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>University of Cambridge: Modern Magic Unlocks Merlin’s Medieval Secrets. “A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories of Merlin and King Arthur…. the digital results of the project are now available for everyone to explore online via the […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/29/university-of-cambridge-modern-magic-unlocks-merlins-medieval-secrets/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/29/university-of-cambridge-modern-magic-unlocks-merlins-medieval-secrets/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Thanks to Diane R. for sending this my way, from World History Teachers Blog: Online Archive for WWII. “Here is a cool new online archive of 20th-century resources surrounding Winston Churchill. The archive includes primary sources such as images, cartoons, and documents. One of the most interesting parts of the archives is the investigations of significant issues designed for high school […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/11/world-history-teachers-blog-online-archive-for-wwii/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/11/world-history-teachers-blog-online-archive-for-wwii/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Historic England: Historic England Acquires World-Class Collection Featuring Earliest and Finest Photographs of England. “The Rosing Collection includes over 8,000 original black and white photographs of English architecture, landscapes and maritime history from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, when England was undergoing large-scale changes powered by industrialisation, urbanisation and […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/22/historic-england-historic-england-acquires-world-class-collection-featuring-earliest-and-finest-photographs-of-england/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/22/historic-england-historic-england-acquires-world-class-collection-featuring-earliest-and-finest-photographs-of-england/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Manchester City Council: 90,000+ images on Manchester’s new local image website. “Thanks to a £100,000 funding award from the National Lottery Heritage Fund in January 2024, Manchester Libraries has been able to develop the new Manchester Image Archive and to hire a project manager to oversee it. Currently hosting more than 90,000 images, the upgraded website features a much larger archive […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/07/manchester-city-council-90000-images-on-manchesters-new-local-image-website/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/07/manchester-city-council-90000-images-on-manchesters-new-local-image-website/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>University of Exeter: Archaeologists find ‘lost’ site depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. “Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that a house in England is the site of a lost residence of Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England…. Bosham, on the coast of West Sussex, is depicted twice in the Bayeux Tapestry, which famously narrates the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 when William, […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/28/university-of-exeter-archaeologists-find-lost-site-depicted-in-the-bayeux-tapestry/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/28/university-of-exeter-archaeologists-find-lost-site-depicted-in-the-bayeux-tapestry/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Genealogy’s Star: Ancestry.com now has the 1921 England Census. “There is always a celebration when a new national census appears online. From talking to friends in England, it may have appeared online there on January 2, 2025 or a day or two later. I was expecting an announcement from Ancestry.com which either didn’t come or I missed in my daily pile of emails.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/09/genealogys-star-ancestry-com-now-has-the-1921-england-census/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/09/genealogys-star-ancestry-com-now-has-the-1921-england-census/</a></p>