Online exhibitions

Online archive exhibitions and image galleries of documents on a wide range of themes.
Digitised documents are also included in the resources for Warwick modules and digital collections.

Black and white photograph of Miss Varley kicking off the football match. She is standing in the middle of the football pitch with a foot on theball.

125 Years of the Beautiful Game: Football, Politics and Society

Football, politics and society. The exhibition covers a range of footballing controversies and debates - from the dawn of the professional game in the 1880s to more recent discussions over the ownership of clubs by big business.

Print of 'A beauty reading a letter’, pen and ink drawing by Japanese artitst Kitagawa Utamaro, c1792

Art in the Archives

Pictures and stories from our holdings covering a range of topics - from Art and Struggle to Art at Warwick. It also features our photo galleries: Figures, Faces, and People Places & Nature.

A textile artwork from Crafting Resistance, an exhibition of objects crafted by Chilean political prisoners during the dictatorship of General Pinochet. Photo credits: Tennisons Photography.

Crafting Resistance: The art of Chilean political prisoners

Exhibition co-curated by Jasmine Gideon, Birkbeck, University of London, and Gloria Miqueles, Chilean ex-political prisoner, held at the MRC in 2017.

Detail from the painting 'THE TRANSPARENCY' by M. George Cruikshank

Dare to be free: Revolt and Reform in Regency England

Documents relating to the fight for political and social reform during the 1780s-1830s

Photograph of delegates at the 1st International Tramwaymen’s Congress in Brussels, 1925

International Transport Workers' Federation

Highlights from the archives of the ITF

Photograph of Jack Jones in a moment of relaxation at the TUC Conference, 1963

Jack Jones: A Memorial

Tribute to the former General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union

Black and white portrait of a coal miner at work.

King Coal

Documents about the turbulent story of coal mining and its effect on British life

Let Robeson Sing

Documents relating to the campaign to overthrow the McCarthyite travel ban on actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson

Section of the National Union of Railwaymen's emblems for presentation, including train, train station and transport related colour illustrations.

The National Union of Railwaymen, 1913-2013

Highlights from the archives of the NUR

Section of a poster illustration for Barcelona Olympics 1936. Three human figures hold a flag with 'Olimpiada Popular' written on.

The Olympics: Playing Political Games

Politics and sport - from the fascism of 1936 Berlin to the Cold War controversies of Moscow in 1980

Black and white photograph of a mobile cinema apparatus called 'Touring Talkie: daylight Cinema Saloon'.

'The Power of the Cinema'

Documents about the film industry during the 1920s and 1930s

Section of a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's leaflet 'ON THE MARCH' featuring the CND symbol. White writing and symbol over bright red background.

Protest and Survive: Peace Movements after the H-Bomb

Highlights from the MRC's anti-nuclear archives

Black and white photograph of chainmakers' workshops. Two women are standing at the door of two of the workshops.

"Rouse, Ye Women"

Documents about the 1910 Cradley Heath Chain Makers' Strike

Section of an image from a Communist Party pamphlet in favour of equal pay from 1944. Rad background with white chalk sketch drawings of a man and a woman working in various setting. The banner reads "Equal pay for Equal work".

The Struggle for Equal Pay

Documents relating to the campaign for equal pay in the first half of the 20th century

Symbol of the TUC, blue on white background. The globe [Planet Earth] overlayed with a crossed shovel and pick, overlaid with a pen nib. At the bottom of the globe appears the text 'LABOUR'.

The Trades Union Congress at 150

Timeline featuring highlights from the TUC archives

'The Lorry Driver's Special' newspaper, vol.I, no.3, November 1938

The Transport and General Workers' Union

Highlights from the archives of the TGWU

Black and white photograph showing the residents of the Homes for Working Girls in London at Dollis Hill, Willesden, 1887

The Victorian City

Selection of sources on the themes of 'Crime and punishment', 'Employment and trade unionism', 'Housing and welfare', 'Immigration and the Jewish community', 'Political revolt and reform', and 'Women'.