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West Africa and the First World War

Monday 18 June 2018

The First World War had a great impact on West Africa, as Britain ordered the invasion of German colonies in Cameroon and Togoland, using its own colonies as ba...

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Suffrage 100: Did militancy help or hinder the fight for the franchise?

Friday 27 April 2018

By 1912, militancy associated with the Suffragette movement hit its peak, with regular arson attacks, window-smashing campaigns and targeting of MPs’ houses....

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Bombs, bulls and civilian bravery

Tuesday 4 July 2017

In this podcast The National Archives’ Principal Military Specialist reveals some of his favourite stories about civilian gallantry from the First and...

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Pathé: A Healthier Britain

Thursday 12 March 2020

The National Archives education team’s film of the month highlights a Pathé film relating to current events, anniversaries or key topics that you may be cove...

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Pathé: Time to Remember – Fast and Far in the Twenties

Wednesday 15 January 2020

The National Archives education team’s film of the month highlights a Pathé film relating to current events, anniversaries or key topics that you may be cove...

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Suffrage 100: Did militancy help or hinder the fight for the franchise?

Friday 27 April 2018

By 1912, militancy associated with the Suffragette movement hit its peak, with regular arson attacks, window-smashing campaigns and targeting of MPs’ houses....

View all 'Social history' posts
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Pathé: A Healthier Britain

Thursday 12 March 2020

The National Archives education team’s film of the month highlights a Pathé film relating to current events, anniversaries or key topics that you may be cove...

Audio

West Africa and the First World War

Monday 18 June 2018

The First World War had a great impact on West Africa, as Britain ordered the invasion of German colonies in Cameroon and Togoland, using its own colonies as ba...

Audio

Suffrage 100: Did militancy help or hinder the fight for the franchise?

Friday 27 April 2018

By 1912, militancy associated with the Suffragette movement hit its peak, with regular arson attacks, window-smashing campaigns and targeting of MPs’ houses....

View all 'political history' posts
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Suffrage 100: Did militancy help or hinder the fight for the franchise?

Friday 27 April 2018

By 1912, militancy associated with the Suffragette movement hit its peak, with regular arson attacks, window-smashing campaigns and targeting of MPs’ houses....

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Mapping Women’s Suffrage

Tuesday 24 October 2017

The women’s suffrage campaign in Britain was a particularly long and difficult struggle. It was fought by women and men in cities, towns and villages right ac...

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The life and death of King John

Tuesday 29 November 2016

King John’s acts of misgovernment prompted his barons to demand reform, setting the kingdom on the road to civil war and leading to John’s grant of Magn...

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Summer Lecture Series 2019: Information at War – the Ministry of Information, 1936-1946

Wednesday 7 August 2019

The Ministry of Information was established by a government which recognised that the understanding and morale of the civilian population in the UK – and else...

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The Cold War and UFOs

Thursday 23 May 2019

There is more to the Ministry of Defence UFO files than reports on strange sightings in the sky. They provide insight into the public’s perception of the Cold...

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The scandalous case of John Vassall

Thursday 23 May 2019

In 1962, while working as a clerk in the British Embassy in Moscow, homosexual civil servant John Vassall was caught in a ‘honey trap’ sprung by the Soviet...

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‘Cama’: a play about a female Indian revolutionary at the time of the First World War

Wednesday 1 November 2017

In a trench in Marseille the loyalty of three Indian soldiers is tested when the legendary Madame Cama asks them to surrender for the good of the motherland. Wi...

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‘The Radicalisation of Vir Singh’: a play about the challenges of serving as an Indian soldier in the First World War

Wednesday 1 November 2017

Arjun sits restless and scared as he prepares to enter the battlefield for the first time. Inspired by compatriot Vir’s legends of mighty Sikh warriors, A...

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Big Ideas: The women’s war in the Middle East – women’s First World War service in Egypt, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and Palestine

Friday 10 July 2015

Nadia Atia is Lecturer in World Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research examines the literature and cultural history of the First World War...

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