All posts AudioHow to publish with The National ArchivesTuesday 15 January 2013Are you interested in publishing your writing with The National Archives? Dr Hester Vaizey...AudioHow to research a famous person in The National ArchivesTuesday 15 January 2013Join records expert Mark Dunton for a step-by-step explanation of how to research a...AudioHow to mine The National Archives for writing fictionTuesday 15 January 2013Think you might want to write historical fiction but don’t know where to begin?...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... « 1 … 38 39 40 41 42 … 90 »