Category: Social history video VideoPathé: We’ve come backThe National Archives education team’s film of the month highlights a Pathé film relating...VideoWebinar: Grace O’Malley Pirate Queen of IrelandBorn to an Irish chieftain in a remote corner of County Mayo, Grace O’Malley...VideoPacifists besieged in a London church, First World WarThis footage shows a meeting of pacifists in a London church, which is interrupted...VideoWebinar: Using the 1939 Register, recording the UK population before the warThe preparations had been made well in advance. Now Britain was at war, and...VideoA momentous question: decorating the Victorian homeThe rise of an increasingly affluent Victorian middle class and the availability of mass...AudioHearth Tax: an introductionThe hearth tax was levied on householders in England and Wales between 1662 and...VideoCO 1069 – Australasia through a lensA look at the work of Charles Percy Pickering and John William Lindt, two...VideoCO 1069: The Colonial Office Library Photographic CollectionStephen Cable introduces CO 1069: The Colonial Office Library Photographic Collection....VideoSarawak in pictures, a century of rule by the ‘White Rajas”James Cronan introduces files related to Sarawak from the recently released CO 1069 Colonial...VideoWomen Making MunitionsThe film goes straight in to show women using heavy engineering machinery such as...VideoNational Service – Women’s Land ArmyThis short clip consists of a romantic scene in which a noble woman runs...VideoWomen’s Army in FranceThis clip comes from a compilation film of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in... 1 2 3 … 12 »
