Archives and archivists

Whether you’re an archivist, researcher or interested in the field, experts from The National Archives and elsewhere offer insights into archival history, records and the challenges archives face.

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 ...
UKAD forum 2013: Plenary 2: Panel Discussion

The forum is an opportunity for archivists and information professionals to hear and share some of the latest thinking around online access to archives and archives data and share ideas around making archives more accessible through online development. Patricia Methven, ...
UKAD forum 2013: Trenches to Triples: Linked Data markup to archive descriptions relating to the First World War

The forum is an opportunity for archivists and information professionals to hear and share some of the latest thinking around online access to archives and archives data and share ideas around making archives more accessible through online development. Lianne Smith ...
UKAD forum 2013: What is an API and what might the Discovery API mean for contributing data to Discovery?

The forum is an opportunity for archivists and information professionals to hear and share some of the latest thinking around online access to archives and archives data and share ideas around making archives more accessible through online development. Alexs Drozdov ...
Hillsborough: the tangled web

As a member of the Hillsborough Independent Panel, Christine Gifford led the Panel on the discovery and disclosure of the information subsequently put in the public domain in support of the Report of the Panel in September 2012. In this ...
An introduction to the fifth tranche of colonial administration records released at The National Archives

The National Archives is working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to transfer and release colonial administration records, referred to as the ‘migrated archives’ between April 2012 and November 2013, in accordance with the published timeline on the FCO website. ...
UKAD forum 2013: Developing Descriptive Interoperability: A Call to Action

The forum is an opportunity for archivists and information professionals to hear and share some of the latest thinking around online access to archives and archives data and share ideas around making archives more accessible through online development. Jenny Bunn ...
UKAD forum 2013: keynote talk

This is the keynote talk at the United Kingdom Archives Discovery (UKAD) 2013 forum, delivered by James Davis from Google’s Cultural Institute. The UKAD network is a collaborative group of archives and other information professionals, of which The National Archives ...
UKAD forum 2013: Lessons from workshops about licensing and releasing data

The forum is an opportunity for archivists and information professionals to hear and share some of the latest thinking around online access to archives and archives data and share ideas around making archives more accessible through online development. Owen Stephens ...
Challenges facing The National Archives – Part 3

Podcast of a third interview between Dr Andrew Foster from the Historical Association and member of The National Archives’ Strategic Academic Stakeholder Forum and Oliver Morley, Chief Executive and Keeper, The National Archives, which took place on 11 February 2013. ...
How to publish with The National Archives

Are you interested in publishing your writing with The National Archives? Dr Hester Vaizey from the in-house Publishing Team explains how this works. She explains the benefits of working in partnership with The National Archives and will offer guidance on ...
How to research a famous person in The National Archives

Join records expert Mark Dunton for a step-by-step explanation of how to research a famous person in The National Archives. Taking the case study of Britain’s first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, the podcast goes through the key steps to ...
How to mine The National Archives for writing fiction

Think you might want to write historical fiction but don’t know where to begin? During this podcast historian Dr Katherine Mair shows you how to unlock a wealth of inspiration held within the documents at The National Archives. You will ...
Ugandan Asians in Britain: journeys across three continents to find a home

It is forty years since Idi Amin arbitrarily decided to expel over 70,000 Asians resident in Uganda. Given only 90 days to leave the land-locked East African country, most were forced to abandon homes and businesses, taking with them only what ...
The scandalous case of John Vassall: sexuality, spying and the Civil Service

Fifty years ago civil servant John Vassall was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment for espionage. Vassall was homosexual, and whilst working at the British Embassy in Moscow, was caught in a Soviet Secret Service ‘honeytrap’, and blackmailed into passing secrets ...