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A report written in support of the decision taken by the Home Secretary, John Anderson, to detain Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), in May 1940, under the terms of Defence Regulation 18B.

Document of the Week: Detention Report for Sir Oswald Mosley

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 23rd June, 2025 2 min read
A report from 1882, addresses illicit diamond dealing, as the British sought to secure and regulate the diamond industry.

Document of the Week: Diamond Trade in Griqualand West, 1882

Nishah Malik
Published 16th June, 2025 3 min read
A letter on aged paper, written in March 1845, from the Bishop of New Zealand to the Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG).

Document of the Week: Hōne Heke and Māori Resistance to British Colonial Rule

Mary Wills
Published 9th June, 2025 3 min read
Aged paper with an ornate border and a logo resembling a rainbow arch with Civil Defence written in arched text within it, along with a crown above it. The document is titled Some Things You Should Know If War Should Come. There are handwritten annotations over the page.

Document of the Week: "Some Things You Should Know If War Should Come"

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 2nd June, 2025 3 min read
To women stand on a grand staircase in elegant dresses. One woman is of a very slim build, and the other has a fuller figure. The slim woman smiles into the distance while the other woman looks sad, and fans herself.

Document of the Week: Antipon Tonic—Weight Loss Advert in The Tatler (1909)

Nishah Malik
Published 26th May, 2025 4 min read
A typed document with text in two columns. At the head of the page there is a title that reads A Novel in a Nutshell.

Document of the Week: “Kismet”, the First Published Work of Walter de la Mare (1895)

Laura Wales
Published 19th May, 2025 3 min read
A greyscale illustration by Louis Wain. Several young kittens can be seen performing a range of actions associated with the infancy of both humans and cats, including sleeping, crawling, and crying. Some of the kittens perform more feline actions, such as attacking their caregivers, clawing at furniture, and diving headfirst into a bucket of milk, while the adult cats appear firmly anthropomorphised, standing on their hind legs and holding the kittens in their arms.

Document of the Week: “The Seven Ages—I” by Louis Wain, 1900

Chloe Haney
Published 12th May, 2025 3 min read
A page from the Customs Imports and Exports accounts, covering the period December 1719 to December 1720.

Document of the Week: Tobacco and the American Colonies, 1719–1720

Dr Catherine Bateson
Published 5th May, 2025 3 min read
A black and white scan of a handwritten journal entry, dated Friday, Jan. 20th 1899.

Document of the Week: Cultural Interactions in the Journal of Missionary Edward Bernau, 1899

Mary Wills
Published 28th April, 2025 3 min read
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