Category: Social history video

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Pathé: A Healthier Britain

Thursday 12 March 2020

The National Archives education team’s film of the month highlights a Pathé film relating to current events, anniversaries or key topics that you may be cove...

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Pathé: Time to Remember – Fast and Far in the Twenties

Wednesday 15 January 2020

The National Archives education team’s film of the month highlights a Pathé film relating to current events, anniversaries or key topics that you may be cove...

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Webinar: Grace O’Malley Pirate Queen of Ireland

Thursday 15 March 2018

Born to an Irish chieftain in a remote corner of County Mayo, Grace O’Malley forged a career in seafaring and piracy that spanned over 40 years. This webinar...

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Pacifists besieged in a London church, First World War

Thursday 30 June 2016

This footage shows a meeting of pacifists in a London church, which is interrupted by patriots. We see a large crowd outside the church, some trying to get in...

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Webinar: Using the 1939 Register, recording the UK population before the war

Wednesday 13 January 2016

The preparations had been made well in advance. Now Britain was at war, and as the uniformed army prepared to face the enemy, a civilian army was mobilised at h...

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A momentous question: decorating the Victorian home

Monday 22 April 2013

The rise of an increasingly affluent Victorian middle class and the availability of mass manufactured goods, including furniture and textiles, contributed to an...

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Hearth Tax: an introduction

Friday 12 April 2013

The hearth tax was levied on householders in England and Wales between 1662 and 1689. Records of the assessments, returns and exemptions are a fruitful source f...

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CO 1069 – Australasia through a lens

Tuesday 22 January 2013

A look at the work of Charles Percy Pickering and John William Lindt, two European photographers, whose varied paths had led them to Australia....

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CO 1069: The Colonial Office Library Photographic Collection

Wednesday 16 January 2013

Stephen Cable introduces CO 1069: The Colonial Office Library Photographic Collection....

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Sarawak in pictures, a century of rule by the ‘White Rajas”

Friday 21 September 2012

James Cronan introduces files related to Sarawak from the recently released CO 1069 Colonial Office photographic records....

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Women Making Munitions

Friday 10 August 2012

The film goes straight in to show women using heavy engineering machinery such as belt driven lathes. We see women on the production line assembling shells, whi...

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National Service – Women’s Land Army

Friday 10 August 2012

This short clip consists of a romantic scene in which a noble woman runs a horse drawn plough across the field. It is taken from a recruiting film for more wome...