Category: Social history AudioJohn Reginald Christie: a study in sources, The National Archives and beyondFriday 18 October 2013This talk examines and evaluates the sources for the study of the life and...AudioBig Ideas: Big data and dead criminalsMonday 14 October 2013Big data and dead criminals, presented by Professor Tim Hitchcock of the University of...AudioLiving in a railway townThursday 10 October 2013Di Drummond describes the experience of living in railway towns during the 19th and...AudioWriter of the month: An intimate history of your homeSunday 29 September 2013Lucy Worsley discusses the writing of If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of...AudioAn introduction to the seventh tranche of colonial administration records released at The National ArchivesFriday 27 September 2013The National Archives is working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to transfer...AudioThe life and work of MacDonald Gill: mapmaker, letterer and graphic artistTuesday 24 September 2013Discover the wonderful pictorial maps and graphic designs of MacDonald ‘Max’ Gill, one of...AudioWriter of the month: Suddenly, all roads led to Munich, 1936 – why I wrote Winter GamesFriday 20 September 2013Rachel Johnson discusses the writing of Winter Games. Rachel is a columnist, bestselling novelist...AudioYapton: a Sussex parish seen through the census and parish recordsFriday 13 September 2013This talk looks beyond the names recorded in the parish registers and census records,...AudioThere and back again: going away doesn’t mean staying awayTuesday 3 September 2013It is easy to think of emigration as a one-way process, but not everyone...AudioThe truth about The Great Train Robbery of 1963Tuesday 20 August 2013It was called the crime of the century. The Great Train Robbers planned their heist...AudioThomas Armstrong: the smuggler king of CullercoatsFriday 16 August 2013On the surface, Captain Thomas Armstrong was an upstanding, if sometimes over-zealous, member of...AudioAt the Instigation of the Devil: suicide and its recordsMonday 12 August 2013Even today suicide is surrounded by guilt and silence. How did our ancestors regard... « 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 … 31 »