How is nostalgia shaping our view of the past?

Toddlers love Paddington Bear. My two-and-a-half-year-old Nye is a big fan – he likes many bears, in fact. Winnie the Pooh is almost certainly his favourite and we’ve seen the 1977 Disney film approxi

The rise and fall of an undervalued institution

Many of us feel the pull to head ‘home’ after a stint elsewhere, but as Amy Swales attests, sometimes moving back to where you grew up can be unexpectedly confronting

HAVING SPENT SO MUCH TIME IN NEWSROOMS and edit suites making television and radio documentaries, I have come to archives late on in my life. These are the precious places that hold records, whether t

Why do we like what we like?

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