All posts 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...AudioPAS 198 (IAMFA Environmental Group, November 2012)Monday 26 November 2012PAS 198 – presented by Kostas Ntanos, Conservation Science Manager, The National Archives. On...AudioSeasonal drift (IAMFA Environmental Group, November 2012)Monday 26 November 2012Seasonal Drift – presented by Kostas Ntanos, Conservation Science Manager, The National Archives On...AudioEnergy monitoring (IAMFA Environmental Group, November 2012)Monday 26 November 2012Energy monitoring, presented by Patrick Dixon and Marc Mayfield-Blake, The British Library. On Monday...AudioIntroduction (IAMFA Environmental Group, November 2012)Monday 26 November 2012Introduction by Paul Davies, Head of Estates and Facilities, The National Archives. On Monday...AudioAdlestrop: railways, poetry and the myths of 1914Friday 23 November 2012Adlestrop by Edward Thomas is one of the nation’s favourite poems. Written in the...AudioMarjorie’s War: four families and the Great WarFriday 16 November 2012This podcast is based on the recently published book which tells the story of... « 1 … 39 40 41 42 43 … 91 »