Category: Social history AudioInconvenient people and how to find them: Tales from the Victorian lunacy panicsThursday 26 June 2014The 19th century saw a series of scandals concerning sane individuals being locked away...AudioReluctant regicides? The trial of Charles I revisitedFriday 30 May 2014Dr Andrew Hopper investigates the recent controversy among historians about the nature of the trial...AudioGeorgian Londoners – the making of a modern cityFriday 16 May 2014Lucy Inglis looks at the making of the London identity, and how it was...Archives and archivistsWriter of the month: Human woes – researching violence and pain in the archivesFriday 25 April 2014Joanna Bourke discusses her book What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791...AudioThe Post Office Tower: symbol of a new Britain?Tuesday 22 April 2014When the Post Office Tower was opened officially on 8 October 1965, it was...AudioBritish nationality: subject or citizen?Monday 14 April 2014Mark Pearsall looks at the status of immigrants and the concept of nationality over...AudioEarly civil registrationMonday 7 April 2014Everyone researching 19th century English or Welsh ancestors is familiar with birth, marriage and...Audio‘…we may lie and die in a land of plenty…’: The Victorian poor in their own wordsTuesday 1 April 2014In all but the most specialist accounts of Victorian histories the poor are often...AudioSpies like us: The secret life of Ernest OldhamFriday 14 March 2014The security service files held at The National Archives in series KV 2 reveal...AudioHe is so silly he would rather have a half pence than a shilling: Discovering the history of learning disabilityFriday 7 March 2014Simon Jarrett explores the fascinating and little-known world of the history of people with...AudioFrom deviance to diversity? Finding sexuality and sexual science in the archivesMonday 17 February 2014Dr Lesley Hall, Senior Archivist at the Wellcome Library, examines sources at the Wellcome...AudioDigitising MH 47 the Middlesex military service appeal tribunalTuesday 11 February 2014On the introduction of conscription in 1916, Military Service Tribunals were set up to... « 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 31 »