Category: Social history audio AudioLost London pubsWednesday 26 May 2010Jack Adams looks back at the changing nature and purpose of pubs over the...AudioTracing marriages in 18th century England and Wales: a reassessment of law and practiceFriday 21 May 2010The Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 marked an important development in the history of...AudioDependence, intolerance and expulsion: the story of the Jews in England, 1066-1290Wednesday 19 May 2010William the Conqueror invited Jews into England from Normandy around 1070, but the Jewish...AudioBara Brith on the pampas: the Welsh in PatagoniaFriday 26 March 2010In 1865, a Welsh speaking colony was established in the valley of the Chubut...AudioCounting the peopleFriday 19 March 2010Census returns are among the most popular records used by family historians and other...AudioI’m All Right Jack! Britain in 1959Friday 12 March 2010The famous Boulting Brothers film ‘I’m All Right Jack!’ was released just over 50...AudioKindertransport: Britain’s rescue planFriday 26 February 2010The Wiener Library holds many personal accounts of children evacuated from Nazi Germany, Austria...AudioFashion or ration: Hartnell, Amies and dressing for the BlitzThursday 18 February 2010How did the fashionable woman of the Second World War and post war era...AudioNew Britons – Immigration to the United KingdomFriday 22 January 2010Mark Peasall looks at immigration into Britain from the 16th to the 20th century...AudioShop workers: tracing your retail ancestorsThursday 14 January 2010We all go shopping, albeit with varying degrees of enthusiasm, and many of us...AudioNew files from 1979Wednesday 30 December 2009An introduction to newly releases files from 1979, covering subjects such as the winter...AudioFrom cotton spinning to coffins: specifications for patents of inventionFriday 18 December 2009Patents of invention cover a vast range of ideas, from the industrial and agricultural... « 1 … 12 13 14 15 16 … 19 »