Category: Social history VideoTo Go Up In Smoke (1934)Friday 4 November 2022This month’s clip is titled ‘To Go Up In Smoke’ and shows Guy Fawkes...VideoPromoting the 1951 censusTuesday 16 February 2021This is a duplicate of the newsreel item found in Pathe Gazettes issue 51/20...VideoMaking a mark: The early Black Press, 1817-1948Tuesday 10 November 2020Periodicals have been produced by and for Black people in Britain for more than...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...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...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...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...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...AudioHeidi Thomas: Researching Call the MidwifeWednesday 18 May 2016Screenwriter Heidi Thomas shares the process of transforming Jennifer Worth’s memoirs into the BBC period...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...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...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.... 1 2 3 … 31 »
