Posts by Chris Day Archives and archivistsWalking through archived colonial histories, part 2: Tolpuddle to TasmaniaTuesday 15 October 2024Continue our trip through the archive via Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania....Records and research‘Wicked and seditious writings’ – Thomas Paine, Rights of Man and treasonWednesday 5 April 2023What happened when the radical writer was taken to court, accused of sedition?...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 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,...Records and researchStories from home and abroad in the Cabinet Office file releaseFriday 30 December 2022Today, we have released almost 600 Cabinet Office files covering Tony Blair’s Labour administration...Records and researchThe Morant Bay Rebellion, October 1865Wednesday 19 October 2022On 12 October 1865, John Davidson, a magistrate in the east of Jamaica, wrote...Records and researchWatergate as seen from The National ArchivesTuesday 21 June 2022Last week a team from The National Archives took part in a Watergate anniversary...Records and researchThe scandalous case of The North Briton number 45Wednesday 15 June 2022John Wilkes is one of the most scandalous and fascinating figures of late 18th-century...Records and researchThe Forgotten Army: West African Troops in Burma, 1945Wednesday 12 August 2020They have been called the ‘Forgotten Army’ – the British Fourteenth Army who, in...Records and researchComputing Cholera: Topic modelling the catalogue entries of the General Board of HealthTuesday 2 June 2020The 19th century saw a number of global cholera pandemics, beginning in India and...Records and research‘Decided to cancel at last minute to save snarl from Uncle Joe’: How VE Day became VE DayFriday 8 May 2020Friday 8 May marks the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day –...Records and researchReform: Violence and the struggle for suffrageThursday 23 January 2020The campaign for women’s suffrage is often characterised by its militant factions and leaders... 1 2 3 »