Category: Podcasts AudioSummer Lecture Series 2019: Information at War – the Ministry of Information, 1936-1946Wednesday 7 August 2019The Ministry of Information was established by a government which recognised that the understanding and morale of the civilian population in the UK – and else...AudioThe Cold War and UFOsThursday 23 May 2019There is more to the Ministry of Defence UFO files than reports on strange sightings in the sky. They provide insight into the public’s perception of the Cold...AudioThe scandalous case of John VassallThursday 23 May 2019In 1962, while working as a clerk in the British Embassy in Moscow, homosexual civil servant John Vassall was caught in a ‘honey trap’ sprung by the Soviet...On the RecordOn the Record: Double agents and double standardsThursday 16 May 2019The Cambridge Five are perhaps the most infamous spy ring of the 20th century. They worked their way into the upper ranks of British Intelligence in order to sp...On the RecordOn the Record: Lawrence and BellThursday 9 May 2019The exploits of T.E. Lawrence are legendary. Thanks to the famous film ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, millions around the world know about his time spying an...On the RecordOn the Record: Archetype of a SpyThursday 2 May 2019What do spies actually look like? What do they do? What motivates them to enter such a secretive profession? In this episode we use documents in our collection...AudioOn the Record: Spies (a trailer)Friday 26 April 2019History is everywhere in popular culture. But the truth is harder to find. A three-part podcast series by The National Archives, On the Record will take a clo...AudioThe personal story of Holocaust survivor John DobaiWednesday 20 February 2019John Dobai was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1934. To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, John delivered a talk at The National Archives on 25 January 2019 about his p...AudioBig Ideas Series: Entity disambiguation in digital cultural heritageThursday 17 May 2018To enable people to explore a digital collection, the platform that hosts that collection needs to have a comprehensive understanding of the information it is p...AudioUFO files at The National ArchivesTuesday 1 May 2018Originally set up at the request of Winston Churchill, the Ministry of Defence’s UFO Desk ran for over 60 years, collating mysterious sightings and records...AudioSuffrage 100: Did militancy help or hinder the fight for the franchise?Friday 27 April 2018By 1912, militancy associated with the Suffragette movement hit its peak, with regular arson attacks, window-smashing campaigns and targeting of MPs’ houses....AudioDigital Archives of the FutureMonday 12 March 2018To mark forty years since The National Archives moved to Kew, our digital director John Sheridan discusses the challenges that archives will face in the futur... 1 2 3 … 43 »
