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UFO files at The National Archives
Originally 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... read more
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Suffrage 100: Did militancy help or hinder the fight for the franchise?
By 1912, militancy associated with the Suffragette movement hit its peak, with regular arson attacks, window-smashing campaigns and targeting of MP’s houses.... read more
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Digital Archives of the Future
To 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... read more
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Reformation on the Record: Suzannah Lipscomb on Henry VIII and the break with Rome
Reformation on the Record was a two-day conference which brought together research using original records of Church and State from our collection to explore thi... read more
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Sylvia Pankhurst: suffragette, socialist and ‘scourge of the empire’
From militant suffragette at the beginning of the 20th century to campaigner against colonialism in Africa after the Second World War, Sylvia Pankhurst dedicate... read more
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Security Service file release November 2017
Professor Christopher Andrew, formerly official historian of MI5 and author of ‘The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5′, introduces key fil... read more
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‘Corner of a Foreign Field’: a play about the burial of Indian Muslim troops at the time of the First World War
It is October 1914 and Maulana Sadr Ud-Din is battling with General Barrow, the Military Secretary to the India Office, over the appropriate burial grounds for... read more
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‘Step Child’: a play about the surveillance of First World War Indian dissenters
The British Government promises that all British subjects are equal before the law. But when America begins blocking the growing number of Indian Sikhs seeking... read more
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‘Cama’: a play about a female Indian revolutionary at the time of the First World War
In a trench in Marseille the loyalty of three Indian soldiers is tested when the legendary Madame Cama asks them to surrender for the good of the motherland. Wi... read more
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‘The Radicalisation of Vir Singh’: a play about the challenges of serving as an Indian soldier in the First World War
Arjun sits restless and scared as he prepares to enter the battlefield for the first time. Inspired by compatriot Vir’s legends of mighty Sikh warriors, A... read more
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Mapping Women’s Suffrage
The women’s suffrage campaign in Britain was a particularly long and difficult struggle. It was fought by women and men in cities, towns and villages right ac... read more
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The Sexual Offences Act 1967. Part 2: Wolfenden’s silent women
On 27 July 2017, The National Archives held a day of talks to mark the 50th anniversary of the royal assent of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially de... read more
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Jane Austen: from beginning to end
To commemorate the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death in 1817, Professor Fiona Stafford delivered a talk on Austen’s life and work at the The National... read more
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Sexuality under scrutiny in 1930s Soho
In 1934, homosexual acts between men – in public and in private – were illegal in the UK. Police surveilled a number of social spaces across London... read more
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Bombs, bulls and civilian bravery
In this podcast The National Archives’ Principal Military Specialist reveals some of his favourite stories about civilian gallantry from the First and... read more
