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  • Audio contentWallpaper design 1839-1841 (catalogue reference: BT 42/14/89)

    Design online: extending access to the BT Design Register

    This talk focuses on recent research linked to widening online access the Board of Trade Design Register, a huge collection of nearly 3 million designs and their registration records, dating 1839-1991. It reports on the transcription, cataloguing and online delivery ...

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  • Audio contentBritish Guiana. Kaieteur Falls (catalogue reference: CO 1069/359/48)

    The subversion of Cheddi Jagan: the Cold War in British Guiana, 1953-64

    The talk explores the role of ethnic (Indian, African, Portuguese), ideological and religious factors in the shaping of the anti-communist crusade in the colony. It also looks at the role of the British and Americans in subverting Jagan, in the context ...

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  • Audio contentwork25-213-tracing-a-living-person

    Brick walls and lost ancestors

    Even the luckiest of family historians will come up against brick walls from time to time. This talk shows that everyone left a paper trail and that it’s almost always possible to find it. It introduces a number of strategies ...

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  • Audio contentQueen Elizabeth I portrait on an indenture

    An A-Z of Interesting Things about Elizabethan England

    Ian Mortimer started his career as a poet, then qualified as an archivist and later became a historian and a novelist. In this podcast Ian talks through an A-Z of facts about Elizabethan England. Between 1991 and 2003 Ian worked for a ...

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    William Wallace’s rising and execution, and Edward I’s conquest of Scotland

    The period of crisis in Scotland following the death of Alexander III, and leading to the eventual conquest by Edward I, still excites controversy and discussion, not least about the role of William Wallace. During work on an AHRC-funded project ...

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  • Audio contentCat. Ref, FO 1093/252

    Foreign Office and Cabinet Office file release: May 2013

    Gill Bennett, formerly Chief Historian at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, introduces highlights of new files from the Permanent Under-Secretary’s Department (FO 1093), the government department responsible for liaison with the UK’s intelligence agencies, and the Cabinet Secretary’s archive (CAB ...

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  • Video contentThe Cradle at work, Gold Mining, Australia 1900, cat. ref. COPY 1-446

    Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19

    The ‘Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19′ research project is a major collaborative research project between the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies (MCAS), King’s College London and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in Canberra, Australia. The ultimate ...

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  • Video contentJourney's End

    The Journey’s End Battalion: The 9th East Surrey and R C Sherriff in the Great War

    ‘Journey’s End’ is a well-known play about the Great War. The author, R C Sherriff, saw all his front line service with 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. The podcast explores in particular Sherriff’s experiences with the battalion and his reactions ...

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  • Video contentHenry-VIII-illuminated-initial

    The Children of Henry VIII

    John Guy tells the story of the family drama of England’s wealthiest and most powerful king. It is a tale of jealousy, mutual distrust and often bitter sibling rivalry, simmering beneath the magnificent pageantry and stormy politics of the Tudor ...

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  • Podcasts on the thousands of images taken from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, held at The National Archives.

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  • Military records specialist William Spencer explores the true stories behind popular war films, using original records to depict actual events.

    War on film

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