Search results found for: women AudioHow to mine The National Archives for writing fictionTuesday 15 January 2013Think you might want to write historical fiction but don’t know where to begin?...VideoLondon Church Completely Destroyed By FireThursday 2 August 2012The opening titles tell us that this is a church burned down by Suffragettes,...VideoFor the Empire – Part 2Thursday 2 August 2012This clip takes us first through a sequence of ruined cities in Belgium and...VideoEmily Davison killed at DerbyThursday 2 August 2012Opening title says Tattenham Corner, followed by scenes of horses racing past. A new...VideoSuffragist Rally in Hyde ParkThursday 2 August 2012The opening titles tell us that ‘Law Abiding Suffragists? from all over the country...VideoSuffragette Pageant in LondonThursday 2 August 2012The clip opens with titles telling us the pageant contains over 66,000 women and...VideoEdwardian Folkestone at playThursday 2 August 2012In this clip we see people bathing in the sea with interesting details like...AudioMedieval queens in The National ArchivesFriday 11 May 2012Many medieval kings still loom large in popular culture but the queens who lived...Audio‘There is no aspect of government activity on which the State Papers may not throw light’: the papers of the secretaries of state 1509-1782Friday 23 March 2012The State Papers are the correspondence and papers of the ministers of the Crown...AudioOur ancestors and the fear of the Victorian workhouseTuesday 6 March 2012In 1834 the British government introduced the Poor Law Amendment Act (the introduction of...AudioPrison hulksFriday 24 February 2012In 1776 a new act of parliament was introduced to ‘Authorise for a limited...AudioNineteenth century merchant seafarers and their recordsWednesday 1 February 2012Specialist knowledge of merchant seafaring is a boon when identifying men and women and... « 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 »