Category: Law and order audio AudioThe gunpowder plot: key documents and hidden voicesFriday 6 November 2009The National Archives holds a wide range of documents which tell the story of...AudioInternmentMonday 21 September 2009On the declaration of war on 3 September 1939, some 70,000 Germans and Austrians...AudioForgeries in the archivesFriday 28 August 2009Forgery has always been a major problem to archivists and librarians – from the...AudioPrison: five hundred years behind barsFriday 22 May 2009Edward Marston looks at the changing nature of imprisonment over the centuries and the...AudioCatching Victorian and Edwardian criminals on paperFriday 8 May 2009The problem of serious habitual criminals and how to keep track of them greatly...AudioThe real Little Dorrit: Charles Dickens and the debtors’ prisonFriday 28 November 2008David Thomas examines the reality behind Charles Dickens’ fiction – what were Victorian debtors’...AudioRadicalism and unrestFriday 21 November 2008From the early trade unions of the 18th century, through to the Luddites and...AudioVictorian women prisonersThursday 9 October 2008This talk looks at a series of records of women prisoners dating from 1853...AudioCriminal ancestors: trial records at The National ArchivesThursday 19 June 2008Nigel Taylor takes us through a short introduction into the records that can be...AudioMedieval criminals and the lawThursday 7 June 2007An introduction to the formidable collection of documents that relate to the law and...AudioStar Chamber stories: using records of the early modern equity courtsTuesday 12 December 2006The National Archives holds a vast collection of Chancery Court and other equity legal... « 1 … 3 4 5