Category: Audio AudioBritain’s air forces in the First World WarFriday 13 December 2013This talk covers the record sources for those who served in the air forces,...AudioScandals in the familyMonday 9 December 2013This talk explores the deeds and misdeeds of one family, using documents in The...AudioThey gave the crowd plenty fun: West Indian cricket and its relationship with the British-resident Caribbean DiasporaFriday 6 December 2013‘They gave the crowd plenty fun’ is a lucid study of the impact of...AudioWriter of the month: witches, sorcery, scandal and seduction in Jacobean EnglandMonday 2 December 2013This talk describes the events which unfolded at Belvoir Castle four hundred years ago,...AudioAn introduction to the eighth tranche of colonial administration records released at The National ArchivesFriday 29 November 2013Diplomatic and Colonial Records Specialist David Gilfoyle introduces the eighth and final tranche of...AudioBig Ideas: Searching the unsearchableMonday 25 November 2013Colour, pattern and texture are all ‘content’ but are not searchable like written text....AudioThe Treaty of UtrechtFriday 22 November 2013The Treaty of Utrecht, agreed in the spring of 1713, brought an end to...AudioCoronationsTuesday 19 November 2013References in the public records to coronations date back to the late 12th century...AudioDeath and taxes: understanding the death duty registersFriday 15 November 2013For over 100 years, from 1796 to 1903, the Inland Revenue maintained a series...AudioWilliam Hardin Burnley and Caribbean slaveryTuesday 12 November 2013William Hardin Burnley, the biggest slave owner in Trinidad, did everything in his power...AudioWriter of the month: Researching untold historiesTuesday 5 November 2013Dr Kathleen Chater discusses her book Researching Untold Histories: Black people in England and...AudioFrom Stephenson to Suburbia: the Socio-Economic Impacts of the Coming of the Railways to the ChilternsTuesday 29 October 2013Using current PhD research, Rudi Newman’s talk demonstrates that for rural Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and... « 1 … 19 20 21 22 23 … 54 »