All posts 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...AudioFrom deviance to diversity? Finding sexuality and sexual science in the archivesMonday 17 February 2014Dr Lesley Hall, Senior Archivist at the Wellcome Library, examines sources at the Wellcome... « 1 … 29 30 31 32 33 … 90 »