Category: Social history VideoPathé: We’ve come backThe National Archives education team’s film of the month highlights a Pathé film relating...AudioSuffrage 100: Did militancy help or hinder the fight for the franchise?By 1912, militancy associated with the Suffragette movement hit its peak, with regular arson...AudioEngland ’66: The best of times?It was a year when England won the World Cup and led the world in all...VideoPacifists besieged in a London church, First World WarThis footage shows a meeting of pacifists in a London church, which is interrupted...AudioWriter of the Month: Richard Barnett on Crucial InterventionsIn 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 EqualityThe Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) is the oldest surviving LGBT organisation in the...AudioHeidi Thomas: Researching Call the MidwifeScreenwriter 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 warThe 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 iPhonePeter Doggett argues that from the birth of recording in the 19th century to...AudioWar Girls – poetry and prose by women in the First World WarRuth Sillers talks about, and performs extracts, from her audio book compilation, War Girls....AudioWriter of the month: Jenny UglowAuthor, critic, and historian, Jenny Uglow, talks about her book, In These Times: Living...AudioBig Ideas: The women’s war in the Middle East – women’s First World War service in Egypt, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and PalestineNadia Atia is Lecturer in World Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Her... 1 2 3 … 31 »
