Category: Featured AudioWar Girls – poetry and prose by women in the First World WarFriday 21 August 2015Ruth Sillers talks about, and performs extracts, from her audio book compilation, War Girls....AudioSecurity Service file release August 2015Friday 21 August 2015Professor Christopher Andrew, formerly official historian of MI5 and author of ‘The Defence of...AudioWaterloo men: the records of Wellington’s Waterloo armyFriday 14 August 2015By taking two men who fought at Waterloo and exploring how different records bring...AudioDunkirk: from disaster to deliveranceThursday 6 August 2015Drawing on fresh new interviews with Dunkirk veterans – soldiers and sailors – plus...AudioWriter of the month: Jenny UglowFriday 17 July 2015Author, critic, and historian, Jenny Uglow, talks about her book, In These Times: Living...AudioBig Ideas: The women’s war in the Middle East – women’s First World War service in Egypt, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and PalestineFriday 10 July 2015Nadia Atia is Lecturer in World Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Her...Audio‘The Germans are here!’ London’s first Zeppelin raidMonday 6 July 2015Ten months into the First World War and the feared onslaught on London by...VideoWebinar: Tracing your ancestors – women in the military services during the First World WarFriday 26 June 2015Emily Stidston hosts this webinar which introduces women’s service and other records from 1914...AudioWriter of the month: Adam Nicolson – Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s year together in Somerset, 1797-1798Monday 22 June 2015Adam Nicolson discusses his research into his forthcoming book about Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s year...AudioFanny and Stella: the young men who shocked Victorian EnglandFriday 12 June 2015The gripping story of the trial that shook Victorian England – a tale of...AudioPortillo’s State SecretsFriday 29 May 2015Researcher Tommy Norton introduces some of the 30 documents featured in the BBC 2...AudioWriter of the month: Helen Castor on Joan of ArcThursday 21 May 2015Helen Castor in conversation, discussing her new book, Joan of Arc: A history. Find... « 1 … 6 7 8 9 10 … 26 »