Category: International audio AudioSecurity Service file release February 2012Friday 17 February 2012Professor Christopher Andrew, official historian of MI5, introduces highlights from the 28th Security Service...AudioAnxiety, dread and disease: British ports 1834-1870Friday 13 January 2012As Britain’s status as the ‘workshop of the world’ grew, so did the new...AudioSovereign, squire and rebel: Maharajah Duleep Singh and the heirs of a lost kingdomFriday 13 January 2012At the age of five years, Duleep Singh found himself on the golden throne...AudioUntold histories: black Britons during the period of the British slave trade, c1660-1807Monday 12 December 2011What was life like for the ‘average’ black person in England before the 20th...AudioThe Hong Kong colonial cemeteryMonday 10 October 2011The National Archives provides a treasure trove of material for discovering more about our...AudioThe Berlin Wall 1961: the construction 50 years onFriday 9 September 2011This talk covers the circumstances which brought about the construction of the wall, what...AudioThe Second World War and Roche’s expansion to the West: a Swiss pharmaceutical company in the United KingdomMonday 9 May 2011Roche was founded in 1896 as one of the very first industrial companies solely...AudioHidden Women: uncovering the veil of silence during the partition of Punjab, India 1947Monday 29 November 2010Dr Pippa Virdee of De Montfort University uncovers the hidden voices of Muslim women...AudioThe first Afghan warFriday 17 September 2010In this talk, journalist and historian Jules Stewart will guide us through the 1838-1842...AudioTreaties in The National ArchivesFriday 23 July 2010James Cronan introduces some of the most richly decorated and important documents held at...AudioThe South African empireWednesday 7 July 2010Historian Dr Anne Samson explores South Africas attempt to build an empire over the...AudioResearching the British Empire and CommonwealthFriday 26 June 2009The British Empire existed for four centuries and, at its height, governed one quarter... « 1 2 3 4 »