Tubes in a room containing architectural plans

Architectural plans being sorted on a table

Plans of Salvation Army corps hall at East Dereham, 1929

Plans of Salvation Army retirement home at The Old House, Sevenoaks

#AboutAppraisals
We received a very large transfer of architectural plans of Salvation Army buildings last year. Some plans are in very poor condition, while many are duplicates or show only minor details (like door handles). So we are appraising them to keep the most relevant examples.
#Archive30

Tell us all #AboutAppraisals and how you decide what you need to keep in your archives. #Archive30

A modern Salvation Army building with a grey, angular façade and a tall tower featuring a white cross on a red and orange gradient. A sign with The Salvation Army is visible along the roadside, with a few trees framing the top edge.

A modern Salvation Army building with a metal facade and red accents. Large windows line the front, and THE SALVATION ARMY is displayed in bold red letters. The building sits on a sunny urban street with a clear blue sky above.

Chelmsford Citadel, 2025

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The small rural chapel of Sardis, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, closed in 1980 and, due to its isolated location, has been abandoned to slowly deteriorate across the years (Crown Copyright: RCAHMW).

Take part in the Welsh Chapel Census 2026!

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Caeodd capel gwledig bach Sardis, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, ym 1980 ac, oherwydd ei leoliad ynysig, mae wedi cael ei adael ac wedi dirywio'n araf dros y blynyddoedd (Hawlfraint y Goron: CBHC).

Cymerwch ran yng Nghyfrifiad Capeli Cymru 2026!
Cwblhewch arolwg byr—p'un a ydych chi'n rhan o gapel neu'n adrodd ar un yn lleol.

Helpwch ni i greu ciplun hollbwysig o dreftadaeth capeli Cymru: zurl.co/bU4Lq

Datganiad i'r Wasg: zurl.co/SwqYB

My new (and first) book, The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture is out in May with @edinburghup.bsky.social. You can now pre-order which is pretty cool. Even cooler is that you can get 30% off with this flyer/code. Recommend to your university library if you think it will be of interest. 🍷

Hot Off The Press – New Titles This Week We're delighted to welcome the War Cry, The Salvation Army's principal evangelical newspaper, to our collection this week, with updates to the Social Gazette.

The BNA have also written this amazing blog about the history of 'The War Cry'.

blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2026/04/07/w...

Montage of front covers from Salvation Army newspapers, The War Cry and The Social Gazette

🥳We're so pleased to announce that two Salvation Army periodicals are now available on the British Newspaper Archive.

'The War Cry' for 1879-1985 & 'The Social Gazette' for its entire run of 1893-1917. A total of more than 70,000 pages! 🙌

www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/BL/war-cry 🔒

God save the drunkards of this place! Captain Hannah Griffiths - War Cry 27 Dec 1879

Hallelujah!

One of my research projects is Women Officers in the Salvation Army in Wales pre 1919. Currently 260+ names

The entire digitised 'War Cry' has just been added to BNA Online.

I'm just logging in. I may be some time.

This on page 1 of the first edition

@salvarmyarchive.bsky.social

Unfortunately, the Heritage Centre will be closed to the public on Tuesday 14 April.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Updates from the BNA War Cry; 1879-1985 Social Gazette; 1893-1909

@fhsofcheshire.bsky.social's #FridayRoundUp

Quiet week from BNA this week with just two updates, including

🚩𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐂𝐫𝐲: 1879-1985
The main UK and Irish periodical of The Salvation Army

Full details of all updates, as usual in the screenshots below, with #AltText as always

You can read more about this opposition in our blog:
www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/int...

www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/int...

and this post from @westsussexro.bsky.social about riots at Worthing in 1884:
westsussexrecordofficeblog.com/2020/01/03/b...

We're pleased to see you're making the most of the newly digitised War Cry on #BritishNewspaperArchive! This story comes from a time when there was widespread opposition to The Salvation Army in Britain, with members often imprisoned or assaulted. There were even large riots at places like Torquay.

Join us for 'Primacy: Archbishops and Authority from late Roman Africa to Medieval England', a talk held in connection with our current exhibition Primate of All England: The Archbishop of Canterbury Through Time.

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) PhD Studentship Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project:

'Rediscovering a Woman Collector at the British Library: New Sources and Perspectives on Sarah Sophia Banks' - BL & UCL Dep of Information Studies

www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Now open for student applications! Deadline: 14 April

History in the making…

25th February marks 68 years since the founding of the Vic Soc. #onthisday in 1958, Lady Rosse, John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner were amongst the founding members of the Society for the preservation and appreciation of Victorian & Edwardian heritage, architecture and arts.

The front page of the Daily Graphic newspaper published Saturday 25 August, 1917, featuring portraits of 'Women in the Order of the British Empire', including Lady Byron, the honourable Mrs Alfred Lyttelton, Her Majesty the Queen.

Apply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation.

Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements

Festival of Social History To celebrate 50 years of the Social History Society, we’ve teamed up with the Institute of Historical Research to host a Social History Festival! The festival will feature two expert discussion pan…

📣Bookings now open!

👉Celebrating 50 years of the Social History Society with our 'Festival of Social History' @ihr.bsky.social

Panels, zine-making stall, tours, lunch, a roundtable, & keynote by Naomi Tadmor

📅 24 Apr 2026
💷 from £10 for members

All welcome!
socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...

Four Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses carrying an injured person on a stretcher during the Blitz in 1941

We’ve published a new collection of case studies showcasing the value and impact of charity archives: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
Includes contributions from practitioners and organisations working across the archive and voluntary sectors! (1/2)
📷British Red Cross Museum and Archive

Small Grants The Social History Society maintains a Small Grants Fund to support our members to carry out research activities and hold events. We give priority to activities and event that would otherwise remai…

📣Apply for Small Grants Funding!

Are you looking to conduct research into social or cultural history? Do you need support with archival visits, organising a conference, or buying specialist equipment?

⏰Our next funding deadline is 1 March

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The Heritage Centre recently received this donations envelope from the 1946 Self-Denial fundraising appeal. It was found in someone's house and still has a coin inside (we haven't opened it!), so the donation clearly never made it to us. Better late than never!

Hello Frances, thanks for your query. Can you email us on heritage@salvationarmy.org.uk and one of us can look into this?

📢 Our newest exhibition, Primate of All England: The Archbishop of Canterbury Through Time, is now officially open!

Come along and find out more about the historic role and responsibilities of the Archbishop of Canterbury through rarely-seen artefacts and archive material.

Working with records of traumatic histories Learn about the responsibilities and considerations involved in providing access to records related to traumatic histories.

Working with records of traumatic histories
Wed, 25 Feb | 13:00 GMT | Online

🎤 Eliza McKee, @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
🎤 Hari Jonkers, @holocaustnorth.bsky.social
🎤 Gillian Boll and Malcolm Mathieson, @amnestyuk.bsky.social

Info and registration here: shorturl.at/jAfJO

@drinkingstudies.bsky.social

Indeed! 👇

This collection of architectural plans is still bringing up some treasures:
Edinburgh Women's Hostel, 1912
East Dereham corps hall, 1929
Hillingdon corps hall, 1966

Dry January, teetotalism and fear of the 'demon drink' Academics ague the temperance movements paved the way for sobriety trends like Dry January.

Good story about UK temperance here, featuring the ever-brilliant Dr Annemarie McAllister, plus Fran Robinson of the Livesey Collection at the University of Central Lancashire, the most important British temperance collection... (h/t @addiebabe.bsky.social)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (1/3)

It's great to see so much media coverage around Andrew Davison's new book on the built heritage of the temperance movement.

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

How did mass teetotalism change Victorian London? Buildings like the Old Vic theatre were important places for the Temperance movement in the 1800s.

Temperance is often treated as a footnote, but in Victorian Britain it was a mass movement.

Millions pledged abstinence and reshaped London with alcohol-free spaces - a hidden history still standing today.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...