Latest posts Records and researchThe 1794 trial of Thomas Hardy: ‘New-fangled treasons’Tuesday 21 March 2023Discover an attempt to reimagine treason as a primarily political crime aimed at the... Records and researchDockyard incendiarist: the tale of ‘John the Painter’Wednesday 15 March 2023246 years ago this month, James Aitken was publicly executed at Portsmouth for heinous... Behind the scenes‘For you, my friend, the war is over’: cataloguing 200,000 prisoner of war recordsMonday 13 March 2023National Archives volunteers have completed a major project to catalogue the personnel cards of... Records and researchThe treason of Sir Thomas MoreTuesday 7 March 2023Sir Thomas More was a leading Tudor statesman. What led to his execution?... Records and researchHow Florence Nightingale David saved lives during the Blitz – with statisticsFriday 3 March 2023We explore the wartime work carried out by this pioneering statistician... Records and research‘Excessive severity’: Treason and the Grenadian Rebellion of 1795Thursday 2 March 2023In this blog, curator Chris Day looks at how treason was used, and misused,... View all posts
Posts by category Records and research Behind the scenes Technology and innovation Managing information Archives and archivists Archives and archivistsLocal studies at The National Archives and beyondWednesday 15 February 2023We reflect on the practice of local studies and highlight the launch of a... Archives and archivistsQueer, there and everywhere: LGBTQ+ lives and the censusThursday 5 January 2023On Saturday 19 November, we held our event ‘Queer, There and Everywhere: LGBTQ+ lives... Archives and archivistsExploring archives and emotions through applied psychology and arts practiceTuesday 13 December 2022This blog is the culmination of a number of years of work which started... View all 'Archives and archivists' posts Behind the scenes‘For you, my friend, the war is over’: cataloguing 200,000 prisoner of war recordsMonday 13 March 2023National Archives volunteers have completed a major project to catalogue the personnel cards of... Behind the scenesIntroduction to conservation for digitisationWednesday 22 February 2023The National Archives digitises over 40,000 records every year. Who prepares them?... Behind the scenesDrama and archives: The Bulletin & Persons UnknownFriday 16 December 2022To support further public engagement with our collections, since 2016 we have been leading... View all 'Behind the scenes' posts Behind the scenes10 years of GOV.UK in three minutesFriday 5 November 2021To celebrate the UK Government Web Archive (UKGWA) turning 25 this week, we have... Behind the scenesPreserving UK Government history for 25 yearsThursday 4 November 2021On 4 November 2021, the UK Government Web Archive (UKGWA) celebrates its 25th anniversary.... Managing informationMaking the UK Government Social Media Archive even betterMonday 29 March 2021We have been archiving the online presence of UK central government since 2003. Originally... View all 'Managing information' posts Records and researchThe 1794 trial of Thomas Hardy: ‘New-fangled treasons’Tuesday 21 March 2023Discover an attempt to reimagine treason as a primarily political crime aimed at the... Records and researchDockyard incendiarist: the tale of ‘John the Painter’Wednesday 15 March 2023246 years ago this month, James Aitken was publicly executed at Portsmouth for heinous... Behind the scenes‘For you, my friend, the war is over’: cataloguing 200,000 prisoner of war recordsMonday 13 March 2023National Archives volunteers have completed a major project to catalogue the personnel cards of... View all 'Records and research' posts Technology and innovationMiiifyThursday 17 November 2022The National Archives has benefitted from the generous work of volunteers for years, welcoming... Technology and innovationVisualising our Visual CollectionsTuesday 15 November 2022The National Archives holds multiple collections of intellectual property registration records. These records were... Technology and innovationAnalysing Britain’s earliest copyrighted photographsThursday 10 November 2022In the 1860s photography as a new medium was coming under scrutiny and issues... View all 'Technology and innovation' posts
