Category: Social history audio AudioThe truth about The Great Train Robbery of 1963Tuesday 20 August 2013It was called the crime of the century. The Great Train Robbers planned their heist...AudioThomas Armstrong: the smuggler king of CullercoatsFriday 16 August 2013On the surface, Captain Thomas Armstrong was an upstanding, if sometimes over-zealous, member of...AudioAt the Instigation of the Devil: suicide and its recordsMonday 12 August 2013Even today suicide is surrounded by guilt and silence. How did our ancestors regard...AudioLocating London’s wartime past: www.bombsight.orgFriday 9 August 2013Bomb Sight uses geography to link together The National Archives’ Second World War Bomb...AudioCars and democracy: British trusteeship of Volkswagen 1945 to 1949Friday 2 August 2013This talk gives an overview of British policy and the decisions relating to the...AudioAn introduction to the sixth tranche of colonial administration records released at The National ArchivesMonday 29 July 2013The National Archives is working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to transfer...AudioNo (inter)sex please, we’re OlympiansThursday 18 July 2013The treatment of Caster Semenya, the South African athlete whose victory in the 800m...AudioThe secret listenersFriday 12 July 2013Before Bletchley Park could break the German war machine’s codes, the enemy’s radio traffic...AudioJoin up and see the world! British military recruitment after national serviceFriday 28 June 2013In the First and Second World Wars, men had come forward to join the...AudioWriter of the month: In conversation with Dominic SandbrookMonday 24 June 2013A session in conversation with Dominic Sandbrook, talking about his recent book, ‘Seasons in...AudioWriter of the month: An A-Z of interesting things about Elizabethan EnglandTuesday 28 May 2013Ian Mortimer started his career as a poet, then qualified as an archivist and...AudioHillsborough: the tangled webFriday 26 April 2013As a member of the Hillsborough Independent Panel, Christine Gifford led the Panel on... « 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 … 19 »