Category: Audio AudioIntroduction to willsWednesday 1 April 2020Matt Norman talks to Nigel Taylor about wills – the document used for centuries...AudioIntroduction to birth, marriages and death registers in England and WalesWednesday 1 April 2020Matt Norman talks to Keith Mitchell about civil registration – the system for recording...AudioIntroduction to the censusWednesday 1 April 2020The census documents information about the population taken every ten years. How and when...AudioIntroduction to Discovery – The National Archives catalogueWednesday 1 April 2020Matt Norman talks to Chrissy Peters about Discovery – the online catalogue for The...AudioThe three curses of TutankhamunFriday 20 March 2020Tutankhamun lay in his tomb undisturbed until 1922, when British archaeologist Howard Carter and...AudioDependence, intolerance and expulsion: The story of England’s medieval Jewish communitiesFriday 13 March 2020Despite having clear liberties and the protection of the Crown in the mid-12th century,...AudioGeorge Orwell, the CIA and Cold War filmFriday 3 January 2020The National Archives’ Cold War season drew to a close in November with a...AudioVoices of the Windrush GenerationMonday 30 December 2019‘Voices of the Windrush Generation: The real story told by the people themselves’ by...AudioDocumentary enlightenment: The death of Edward II and the principles of historical methodologyFriday 27 December 2019How do we know what we think we know about the past, and why...AudioThe Fall of WolseyWednesday 20 November 2019490 years ago Thomas Wolsey – King Henry VIII’s former favourite – fell from...AudioHow James Bond won the Cold War for BritainTuesday 19 November 2019Charlie Higson, author of the best-selling Young Bond books, discusses the genesis of 007...AudioOn the trail of Klaus Fuchs, atomic spyTuesday 8 October 2019Arguably the most important ‘atomic’ spy of the 20th century, Klaus Fuchs was a... « 1 2 3 4 … 54 »