Our latest exhibition from Special Collections and Archives is now on show on the lower ground floor of the Aldham Robarts Library.

Linked to the Armistice Centenary commemorations, the exhibition shows what was going on at home in Britain at the end of the First World War. Following our call-out for family photographs from members of staff within the library, we have been lent some lovely items to display alongside documents from the Archives, which really help to bring the exhibition to life.  These include a collection of photographs featuring a very stylish wedding, a group photograph of the Dents Glove Factory Girls, highlighting the roles that women took on during the War, and the diaries and photographs of Albert Priestley, a teenager in 1918 who recorded the end of hostilities on 11th November as well as his recitals at two concerts that day.

We have also featured the career of Jane Ellen Williams, a student at FL Calder College from 1916 to 1919 who went on to become a teacher of domestic science in Wales (shown on the right in the photograph here). Her family recently donated a very interesting collection of recipe books, photographs, certificates and lecture notes which tell us a great deal about student life at FL Calder and this is the first time they have been displayed here.