Category: Archives and archivists AudioReformation on the Record: Richard Rex’s keynote addressFriday 26 January 2018Reformation on the Record was a two-day conference which brought together research using original...AudioBig Ideas Series: ‘In Their Own Write: Welfare, Discipline and Pauper Agency in the Nineteenth Century’Tuesday 12 December 2017In this seminar, Dr Paul Carter introduces his new research project which he is undertaking...AudioBig Ideas Series: Surfacing the PageWednesday 22 November 2017This Big Ideas seminar consists of three short presentations exploring the theme ‘surfacing the...Audio‘Smile’: a play about Indian soldiers at the Brighton Pavilion Hospital during the First World WarWednesday 1 November 2017Three Indian soldiers recover at the iconic Brighton Pavilion hospital. Every detail is provided...AudioMapping Women’s SuffrageTuesday 24 October 2017The women’s suffrage campaign in Britain was a particularly long and difficult struggle. It...AudioUnfolding the court case that banned a 1920s lesbian novelMonday 11 September 2017In 1928 Radclyffe Hall wrote ‘The Well of Loneliness’, a novel that featured female characters...AudioA tormented Tudor queen’s treasonous ‘love letter’Tuesday 1 August 2017In this episode, Neil Johnston and Christopher Day discuss a letter written by Catherine...AudioSexuality under scrutiny in 1930s SohoTuesday 18 July 2017In 1934, homosexual acts between men – in public and in private – were...AudioOscar Wilde’s trial and imprisonment – a short playFriday 14 July 2017This short play explores the trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde. In 1895 the...AudioMedieval treason and magicThursday 15 June 2017In this podcast, two of our records specialists tell us about treason and necromancy in The National...AudioBureau-cats: A short history of Whitehall’s official felinesWednesday 29 March 2017Public interest in the cats of Whitehall began long before Larry, Palmerston and Gladstone graced...AudioTracy Borman on ‘The Private Lives of the Tudors’Monday 6 March 2017Tracy Borman reveals how the Tudor monarchs were constantly surrounded by an army of... « 1 2 3 4 … 19 »