Students Visit the National Archives

24/09/2009

On September 18, Professor Michèle Cohen took her historiography class HST 354 to the National Archives.

This annual visit, organized by the education department of the Archives, gives undergraduates a chance to see what happens ‘behind the scenes’, to get a personal induction to the use of the extraordinary materials stored at the Archives and to obtain a Reader’s pass.

Though this is an annual event, this year there was a significant difference: Emily Bowler, a History Major at Richmond, was part of the team giving the induction.

Emily enrolled in an internship at the Archives last summer and is now a volunteer.

She told us about her current project which involves archiving never-before-seen nineteenth-century Home Office correspondence documents, which she finds very exciting.

She encouraged the class to take an internship there because of the horizons it opens for history students. The students found the visit amazing.

Link to this page: http://www.richmond.ac.uk/n/803.aspx