Category: Social history audio AudioLocality, land and livelihood: sources for early local historyFriday 20 March 2009An introduction to medieval and early modern sources relating to English and Welsh local...AudioTracing your ancestors: a case study featuring the Darwin familyFriday 13 March 2009A step-by-step guide to tracing your ancestors, using the Darwin family as a case...AudioDissecting and cataloguing medical officers’ journals in ADM 101Friday 27 February 2009Bruno Pappalardo introduces the collection of medical officers’ journals found in ADM 101. These...AudioKapow! Fifties Britain versus the comics menaceTuesday 17 February 2009In the mid 1950s Britain woke up to the threat of an invasion: “American...AudioIrish land recordsFriday 6 February 2009With the loss of the 19th century census returns for Ireland, Sharon Hintze guides...AudioCivil registration and beyondFriday 30 January 2009The National Archives’ Audrey Collins takes civil registration as her topic and reveals some...AudioChild emigration to CanadaFriday 9 January 2009Find out about the British child emigration schemes from 1618 to 1967 as Roger...AudioNew files From 1978Tuesday 30 December 2008Contemporary historian Mark Dunton discusses the release of high-profile records from 1978, which provide...AudioRadicalism and unrestFriday 21 November 2008From the early trade unions of the 18th century, through to the Luddites and...AudioGod’s Wonderful RailwayFriday 14 November 2008Find out how the development of the railways transformed the landscape of Great Britain...AudioThe parish: administration and recordsFriday 7 November 2008For hundreds of years the parish was the most important unit of local government....AudioCustoms and Excise service recordsThursday 30 October 2008Everyone hates taxes! Find out what Dr Johnson thought of them in this talk... « 1 … 15 16 17 18 19 »