All posts VideoDig For VictoryTuesday 15 January 2013An appeal to everyone during wartime to ‘Dig for victory’ by cultivating vegetables for...AudioWriter of the month: Hunting for spies in The National ArchivesTuesday 15 January 2013In our first Writer of the Month talk, Times journalist Ben Macintyre discusses his...AudioA Brilliant Little Operation: The full story of how the Cockleshell Heroes mounted the greatest raid of WW2Friday 11 January 2013This talk was given by Lord Ashdown, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats...AudioUgandan Asians in Britain: Journeys across three continents to find a homeMonday 7 January 2013It is 40 years since Idi Amin arbitrarily decided to expel over 70,000 Asians...AudioGeography, art and the sinking of the Mary RoseFriday 4 January 2013King Henry VIII watched as the Mary Rose, pride of his Navy, suddenly capsized...AudioNew files from 1982Thursday 27 December 2012Contemporary records specialists Mark Dunton and Simon Demissie discuss highlights from the latest release...AudioBess of HardwickFriday 21 December 2012Elizabeth, countess of Shrewsbury (c1522-1608), known as ‘Bess of Hardwick’, is one of Elizabethan...AudioThe scandalous case of John Vassall: sexuality, spying and the Civil ServiceMonday 17 December 2012Fifty years ago civil servant John Vassall was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment for...AudioTracing Huguenot ancestorsFriday 14 December 2012Between the 16th and 18th centuries, many thousands of refugees fled from religious persecution...AudioThe strange journey of Edward Swarthye, an African in Elizabethan England: from the Spanish Caribbean to rural GloucestershireFriday 7 December 2012In 1597, an African man named ‘Edward Swarthye, alias negro’ appeared before an English...AudioMorbidity and mortality on convict voyages to 19th century AustraliaFriday 30 November 2012Between 1803 and 1853 some 67,000 convicts were transported from England and Ireland to...AudioAn introduction to the fourth tranche of colonial administration records released at The National ArchivesThursday 29 November 2012The National Archives is working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to transfer... « 1 … 38 39 40 41 42 … 90 »