Category: Family history audio AudioIntroduction to immigration recordsWednesday 1 April 2020Matt Norman talks to Roger Kershaw about records relating to people that came to...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...Audio‘Corner of a Foreign Field’: a play about the burial of Indian Muslim troops at the time of the First World WarWednesday 1 November 2017It is October 1914 and Maulana Sadr Ud-Din is battling with General Barrow, the...Audio‘Step Child’: a play about the surveillance of First World War Indian dissentersWednesday 1 November 2017The British Government promises that all British subjects are equal before the law. But...Audio‘Cama’: a play about a female Indian revolutionary at the time of the First World WarWednesday 1 November 2017In a trench in Marseille the loyalty of three Indian soldiers is tested when...Audio‘The Radicalisation of Vir Singh’: a play about the challenges of serving as an Indian soldier in the First World WarWednesday 1 November 2017Arjun sits restless and scared as he prepares to enter the battlefield for 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...Audio‘Dadland’: the father who was also an undercover guerrilla agentThursday 18 May 2017Keggie Carew discusses her book ‘Dadland’, a story about a madcap English childhood, the... 1 2 3 … 11 »