Tag: Second world war On the RecordSecond World War – Legacies, Language and DiasporaThursday 3 October 2024With recruits from across its empire, Britain’s troops in the Second World War were...On the RecordOn the Record: Second World War – Legacies, Language and Diaspora (trailer)Thursday 26 September 2024In this episode of On the Record, we take focus on the lesser-told history...On the RecordUntold Stories of D-DayThursday 15 August 2024Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, 24,000 soldiers landed on the beaches...On the RecordOn the Record: Untold Stories of D-Day (trailer)Monday 12 August 2024In this episode, we uncover the untold stories of a tank driver on the...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...On the RecordUntold Battle of BritainTuesday 15 September 2020‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many...VideoWhat’s Online: ‘We need to buck ourselves up a bit’ – British propaganda of the Second World WarFriday 24 July 2020At the outbreak of war in 1939, the newly formed Ministry of Information set...AudioThe personal story of Holocaust survivor John DobaiWednesday 20 February 2019John Dobai was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1934. To mark Holocaust Memorial Day,...AudioBombs, bulls and civilian braveryTuesday 4 July 2017In this podcast The National Archives’ Principal Military Specialist reveals some of his favourite stories about...Audio‘Dadland’: the father who was also an undercover guerrilla agentThursday 18 May 2017Keggie Carew discusses her book ‘Dadland’, a story about a madcap English childhood, the...AudioNever Forget: The Holocaust and Nazi PersecutionFriday 7 October 2016In this talk – held as part of Holocaust Memorial Day – record specialists Ela...AudioUsing the 1939 Register: Recording the UK population before the warTuesday 22 December 2015The preparations had been made well in advance. Now Britain was at war, and... 1 2 3 … 6 »