Category: Featured AudioAn introduction to the first tranche of colonial administration records released at The National ArchivesThursday 19 April 2012The National Archives is working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to transfer...AudioUKAD forum 2012: keynote talkFriday 13 April 2012This is the keynote talk delivered by Bill Thompson at the United Kingdom Archives...AudioWhen sport meets the lawThursday 5 April 2012This talk uses records of the law courts and government departments to describe the...AudioBusiness Archives: new initiatives and developmentsFriday 30 March 2012This podcast looks at the background to company archives and the recent development of...Audio‘There is no aspect of government activity on which the State Papers may not throw light’: the papers of the secretaries of state 1509-1782Friday 23 March 2012The State Papers are the correspondence and papers of the ministers of the Crown...AudioDigitised newspapers as sources for family historyMonday 19 March 2012This talk aims to give listeners a demonstration of the recently launched British Newspapers...AudioFinding your family in CanadaFriday 9 March 2012Researching in Canada is vastly different than researching in the UK. Records are especially...AudioOur ancestors and the fear of the Victorian workhouseTuesday 6 March 2012In 1834 the British government introduced the Poor Law Amendment Act (the introduction of...AudioTithe tales: what the Tithe Survey records tell us about early Victorian place and societyFriday 2 March 2012The maps and textual records of this vast tax survey date from around 1840,...AudioThe British Red Cross and its archivesMonday 27 February 2012The British Red Cross has long recognised the importance of its history and archive...AudioPrison hulksFriday 24 February 2012In 1776 a new act of parliament was introduced to ‘Authorise for a limited...AudioNecessity, the mother of invention: Britain’s response to the demands of total war 1939-1945Monday 20 February 2012This talk is about British invention and innovation during the Second World War –... « 1 … 22 23 24 25 26 »