Category: Social history audio AudioFrom wheelchair polo to winning professionals: the history of the ParalympicsFriday 7 September 2012Today, the Paralympics is a showcase of professional, top-level athletic achievement. Like the able-bodied...AudioCoroners’ InquestsThursday 16 August 2012Coroners’ inquests produce a wealth of information for family historians. Ancestors might have been involved...Audio‘An impenetrable tangle or an under-used mine of information?’ The Court of Common Pleas and its records, c1200-1875Friday 3 August 2012The Court of Common Pleas was the busiest court in England for almost all...AudioColonial lives, careers and policies: researching printed papers of the British colonial governmentsFriday 27 July 2012The printed papers of colonial governments held by the Colonial Office, including government gazettes...Social historyAn introduction to the second tranche of colonial administration records released at The National ArchivesFriday 27 July 2012The National Archives is working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to transfer...AudioEdwardian rollerskatingTuesday 3 July 2012Between 1908 and 1912 interest in roller skating rose, boomed and declined. Influences on...AudioSedition, transportation and treason: the case of the London Corresponding SocietyWednesday 27 June 2012How did a small group of men discussing democracy in the coffee houses of...AudioLost in LondonFriday 22 June 2012Tracing ancestors before civil registration and the census presents a real challenge to family...AudioThe Golden Stool: cataloguing Colonial Office records from 1900Friday 25 May 2012In 1900, war broke out between the British and the Ashanti in the Gold...AudioMedieval queens in The National ArchivesFriday 11 May 2012Many medieval kings still loom large in popular culture but the queens who lived...AudioSelling history: the role of the past at Fortnum and MasonFriday 4 May 2012Founded in the year when Great Britain was created, the history of Fortnum and Mason...AudioDigging for diamonds: hidden histories at The National ArchivesFriday 27 April 2012From ‘parachuting’ to ‘truffle-hunting’, there are many ways to research at The National Archives.... « 1 … 6 7 8 9 10 … 19 »