All posts AudioThe life and work of MacDonald Gill: mapmaker, letterer and graphic artistTuesday 24 September 2013Discover the wonderful pictorial maps and graphic designs of MacDonald ‘Max’ Gill, one of...AudioWriter of the month: Suddenly, all roads led to Munich, 1936 – why I wrote Winter GamesFriday 20 September 2013Rachel Johnson discusses the writing of Winter Games. Rachel is a columnist, bestselling novelist...AudioYapton: a Sussex parish seen through the census and parish recordsFriday 13 September 2013This talk looks beyond the names recorded in the parish registers and census records,...AudioTracing your merchant seamen ancestors through crew lists and agreementsFriday 6 September 2013The Merchant Navy Crew Lists and Agreements are one of the greatest sources we...AudioThere and back again: going away doesn’t mean staying awayTuesday 3 September 2013It is easy to think of emigration as a one-way process, but not everyone...AudioThe truth about The Great Train Robbery of 1963Tuesday 20 August 2013It was called the crime of the century. The Great Train Robbers planned their heist...AudioThomas Armstrong: the smuggler king of CullercoatsFriday 16 August 2013On the surface, Captain Thomas Armstrong was an upstanding, if sometimes over-zealous, member of...AudioAt the Instigation of the Devil: suicide and its recordsMonday 12 August 2013Even today suicide is surrounded by guilt and silence. How did our ancestors regard...AudioLocating London’s wartime past: www.bombsight.orgFriday 9 August 2013Bomb Sight uses geography to link together The National Archives’ Second World War Bomb...AudioWriter of the month: Writing a history of one’s own timesTuesday 6 August 2013Peter Hennessy is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of...AudioCars and democracy: British trusteeship of Volkswagen 1945 to 1949Friday 2 August 2013This talk gives an overview of British policy and the decisions relating to the...AudioNew files from 1983Thursday 1 August 2013Contemporary records specialists Mark Dunton and Simon Demissie discuss highlights from the latest batch... « 1 … 33 34 35 36 37 … 90 »