Category: Social history video VideoPromoting the 1951 censusTuesday 16 February 2021This is a duplicate of the newsreel item found in Pathe Gazettes issue 51/20...VideoWebinar: Grace O’Malley Pirate Queen of IrelandThursday 15 March 2018Born to an Irish chieftain in a remote corner of County Mayo, Grace O’Malley...VideoPacifists besieged in a London church, First World WarThursday 30 June 2016This footage shows a meeting of pacifists in a London church, which is interrupted...VideoWebinar: Using the 1939 Register, recording the UK population before the warWednesday 13 January 2016The preparations had been made well in advance. Now Britain was at war, and...VideoA momentous question: decorating the Victorian homeMonday 22 April 2013The rise of an increasingly affluent Victorian middle class and the availability of mass...AudioHearth Tax: an introductionFriday 12 April 2013The hearth tax was levied on householders in England and Wales between 1662 and...VideoCO 1069 – Australasia through a lensTuesday 22 January 2013A look at the work of Charles Percy Pickering and John William Lindt, two...VideoCO 1069: The Colonial Office Library Photographic CollectionWednesday 16 January 2013Stephen Cable introduces CO 1069: The Colonial Office Library Photographic Collection....VideoSarawak in pictures, a century of rule by the ‘White Rajas”Friday 21 September 2012James Cronan introduces files related to Sarawak from the recently released CO 1069 Colonial...VideoWomen Making MunitionsFriday 10 August 2012The film goes straight in to show women using heavy engineering machinery such as...VideoNational Service – Women’s Land ArmyFriday 10 August 2012This short clip consists of a romantic scene in which a noble woman runs...VideoWomen’s Army in FranceFriday 10 August 2012This clip comes from a compilation film of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in... 1 2 3 … 12 »
