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Sweeping change

10 Dec 2025 Anton Howes
RSA Resident Historian Anton Howes reflects on how a competition to create a mechanical chimney cleaner helped to outlaw the use of child chimney sweeps across the rooftops of Britain.
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Minding the gaps

23 Sep 2025 Abby Matthews
The RSA’s newly appointed senior archivist, Abby Matthews, reflects on archives, missing identities and the artefacts that connect us.
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Stones, songs and secrets 

9 Jul 2025 Richard Hale
From a laundry list on limestone to Lear’s vibrant parrots, the RSA’s role in the birth of lithography is a tale of invention, intrigue and the elusive Madame Gleissner
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Journaling through time 

26 Mar 2025
Looking back at the visual history and key milestones of RSA Journal – and to the exciting future ahead.
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RSArchive: liquid legacy

6 Dec 2024 Jerry Lockspeiser, FRSA
RSA House first opened its doors in 1774. Since then the site has seen carousing, consciousness-raising and confidence deserting some of history's most renowned orators. Today it remains a source of inspiration and refreshment.
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RSArchive: 250 years of RSA House

18 Sep 2024
RSA House first opened its doors in 1774. Since then the site has seen carousing, consciousness-raising and confidence deserting some of history's most renowned orators. Today it remains a source of inspiration and refreshment.
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RSArchive: a school of one’s own

25 Jun 2024 Journal contributor
Maria Grey, one of the founders of the Girls’ Day School Trust, first called for men and women to be given the same educational opportunities in a speech to the Society of Arts in 1871.