All posts 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...AudioAn introduction to the sixth tranche of colonial administration records released at The National ArchivesMonday 29 July 2013The National Archives is working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to transfer...AudioThe Church and the propaganda of political reform in 13th century EnglandThursday 25 July 2013In the 13th century, the English episcopate took a leading role in overseeing the...AudioNo (inter)sex please, we’re OlympiansThursday 18 July 2013The treatment of Caster Semenya, the South African athlete whose victory in the 800m...AudioThe secret listenersFriday 12 July 2013Before Bletchley Park could break the German war machine’s codes, the enemy’s radio traffic... « 1 … 34 35 36 37 38 … 91 »