Category: Social history AudioBlack in the British FrameMonday 10 February 2014Stephen Bourne shares his memories of growing up in Peckham and of his adopted...AudioPublic Cooperation with the Household Expenditure Enquiry, 1953-1954Monday 20 January 2014The Household Expenditure Enquiry of 1953-54 was the first large-scale enquiry into household expenditure...AudioNDACA – the National Disability Arts Collection and ArchiveMonday 16 December 2013In this talk Tony Heaton examines the vision for The National Disability Arts Collection...AudioThey gave the crowd plenty fun: West Indian cricket and its relationship with the British-resident Caribbean DiasporaFriday 6 December 2013‘They gave the crowd plenty fun’ is a lucid study of the impact of...AudioWriter of the month: witches, sorcery, scandal and seduction in Jacobean EnglandMonday 2 December 2013This talk describes the events which unfolded at Belvoir Castle four hundred years ago,...AudioBig Ideas: Searching the unsearchableMonday 25 November 2013Colour, pattern and texture are all ‘content’ but are not searchable like written text....AudioWilliam Hardin Burnley and Caribbean slaveryTuesday 12 November 2013William Hardin Burnley, the biggest slave owner in Trinidad, did everything in his power...AudioWriter of the month: Researching untold historiesTuesday 5 November 2013Dr Kathleen Chater discusses her book Researching Untold Histories: Black people in England and...AudioFrom Stephenson to Suburbia: the Socio-Economic Impacts of the Coming of the Railways to the ChilternsTuesday 29 October 2013Using current PhD research, Rudi Newman’s talk demonstrates that for rural Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and...AudioEngineering office staffTuesday 29 October 2013Focusing on some of the drawing and engineering offices, Tim Procter’s talk examines the...AudioSelling the age of the train: British Rail passenger marketing and travel in Britain in the 1960s–70sTuesday 29 October 2013By exploring a wide range of historical records, this talk aims to tell the story...AudioImmigrant Ancestors Project: indexed collections from The National ArchivesMonday 21 October 2013Family history majors at Brigham Young University intern at various repositories of European countries... « 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 … 31 »