Category: Social history VideoPathé: A Healthier BritainThursday 12 March 2020The 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...VideoPathé: Time to Remember – Fast and Far in the TwentiesWednesday 15 January 2020The 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...AudioSuffrage 100: Did militancy help or hinder the fight for the franchise?Friday 27 April 2018By 1912, militancy associated with the Suffragette movement hit its peak, with regular arson attacks, window-smashing campaigns and targeting of MPs’ houses....AudioEngland ’66: The best of times?Wednesday 13 July 2016It was a year when England won the World Cup and led the world in all aspects of popular culture, including pop music, fashion, and film. But it was also a...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 by patriots. We see a large crowd outside the church, some trying to get in...AudioWriter of the Month: Richard Barnett on Crucial InterventionsThursday 23 June 2016In this talk medical historian Richard Barnett explores surgery during the 19th century, from the application of antisepsis to experiments with hypnosis. Wh...AudioAmiable Warriors: A History of the Campaign for Homosexual EqualityTuesday 14 June 2016The Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) is the oldest surviving LGBT organisation in the UK. With more than 150 local branches and over 6,000 members, it has...AudioHeidi Thomas: Researching Call the MidwifeWednesday 18 May 2016Screenwriter Heidi Thomas shares the process of transforming Jennifer Worth’s memoirs into the BBC period drama ‘Call the Midwife’, a TV se...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 as the uniformed army prepared to face the enemy, a civilian army was mobilised at h...AudioWriter of the month: Peter Doggett – Electric shock: From the gramophone to the iPhoneThursday 17 September 2015Peter Doggett argues that from the birth of recording in the 19th century to the digital age, popular music has transformed the world in which we live. It has i...AudioWar Girls – poetry and prose by women in the First World WarFriday 21 August 2015Ruth Sillers talks about, and performs extracts, from her audio book compilation, War Girls. The study is a commemoration of the remarkable and largely unsung e...AudioWriter of the month: Jenny UglowFriday 17 July 2015Author, critic, and historian, Jenny Uglow, talks about her book, In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815. This podcast was recor... 1 2 3 … 31 »
