Category: Video Watch public information films, education films and more, along with associated documents and website content. VideoRudyard Kipling: A Man of LettersFriday 12 November 2021In this short film Dr Juliette Desplat, Head of Modern Collections at The National...VideoCounting the peopleThursday 17 June 2021Discover the epic and illuminating 900-year-old origins of the census in Britain in this...VideoJ B Priestley: A Soldier’s CauseMonday 14 June 2021J B Priestley was an author, playwright, broadcaster and social commentator. Best known for...VideoAphra Behn: Memoirs of a Shee SpyMonday 10 May 2021Best-known as the first professional female writer in England, Aphra Behn was a trailblazing...VideoMeet the Author: Alison Weir – Katheryn Howard, The Tainted QueenFriday 30 April 2021In this talk, Alison Weir discusses the fifth novel in her Six Tudor Queens...VideoPromoting the 1951 censusTuesday 16 February 2021This is a duplicate of the newsreel item found in Pathe Gazettes issue 51/20...Video‘A huge pack of witches’: A witch scare in 17th-century LancashireWednesday 11 November 2020In November 1633, a little boy telling tall tales about witches in his local...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...VideoAudacious Raids: Operations Grouse, Freshman, Swallow and Gunnerside Friday 2 October 2020Operations Grouse, Freshman, Swallow and Gunnerside were carried out by the Special Operations Executive...VideoWhat’s Online: Out in the City: Queer Club Culture in London, 1918-1967Tuesday 29 September 2020‘London’s greatest bohemian rendezvous said to be the most unconventional spot in town.’ Despite...VideoTop level tips: First World War army recordsTuesday 29 September 2020Do you have an ancestor who served in the Army during the First World...VideoOpening up the Statute Book: 10 years of legislation.gov.ukThursday 27 August 2020In July 2010 The National Archives launched legislation.gov.uk, the official home for new and... 1 2 3 … 29 »