All posts AudioBig Ideas: How to turn a tin can into a TARDISTuesday 6 May 2014Starting with a tin can and a tried and tested supermarket analogy Mark Merifield...AudioOperation Unthinkable: Churchill’s plan for World War ThreeMonday 28 April 2014Churchill’s top secret plan to attack the Soviet Empire was scheduled for 1 July...Archives and archivistsWriter of the month: Human woes – researching violence and pain in the archivesFriday 25 April 2014Joanna Bourke discusses her book What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791...AudioThe Post Office Tower: symbol of a new Britain?Tuesday 22 April 2014When the Post Office Tower was opened officially on 8 October 1965, it was...AudioBritish nationality: subject or citizen?Monday 14 April 2014Mark Pearsall looks at the status of immigrants and the concept of nationality over...AudioEarly civil registrationMonday 7 April 2014Everyone researching 19th century English or Welsh ancestors is familiar with birth, marriage and...Audio‘…we may lie and die in a land of plenty…’: The Victorian poor in their own wordsTuesday 1 April 2014In all but the most specialist accounts of Victorian histories the poor are often...AudioSpies like us: The secret life of Ernest OldhamFriday 14 March 2014The security service files held at The National Archives in series KV 2 reveal...AudioBig Ideas: The Great Archive Debate – a view from YorkMonday 10 March 2014At the end of the last century the great heritage debate transformed thinking about...AudioThe Keeper’s Gallery Talk 2014: The UK’s entry to the European Economic CommunityFriday 7 March 2014James Cronan, Diplomatic and Colonial Records Specialist at The National Archives, outlines the events...AudioHe is so silly he would rather have a half pence than a shilling: Discovering the history of learning disabilityFriday 7 March 2014Simon Jarrett explores the fascinating and little-known world of the history of people with...AudioSecurity Service file release February 2014Friday 28 February 2014Professor Christopher Andrew, formerly official historian of MI5 and author of ‘The Defence of... « 1 … 29 30 31 32 33 … 91 »