Posts by Daniel Gilfoyle Records and researchCataloguing the Middle East Mandates: Restarting the projectThursday 8 July 2021Back in 2018, we planned a project to catalogue part of the Colonial Office...Records and researchResearching Africa at The National ArchivesThursday 22 October 2020In the course of Britain’s long-term involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and its...Records and researchThe voyage of HMS Dolphin: The first Europeans on TahitiTuesday 21 July 2020The end of the Seven Years War in 1763 saw a revitalisation of British...Records and researchCataloguing the Middle East mandates – making inroadsMonday 18 May 2020Back in August 2018, we published a blog on a volunteer project to catalogue...Records and researchOperation Sandstone: Surveying Britain’s Cold War beachesFriday 3 April 2020On 16 September 1952, S J Bassett of the Naval Intelligence Department filed a...Records and researchA rough deal for Captain KiddTuesday 3 March 2020In 1695, William Kidd concocted a plan to travel to London to acquire a royal...Archives and archivistsCataloguing the Middle East mandates in the 1920sWednesday 1 August 2018With the help of volunteers, to whom we are extremely grateful, we are undertaking a series...Records and research100 years since Nelson Mandela’s birth, 18 July 1918Wednesday 18 July 2018Nelson Mandela was born at Mvezo, a village near Umtata, Transkei (now Eastern Cape)...Records and researchResearching Colonial Office correspondence: plague in Gold CoastMonday 26 March 2018Researching Colonial Office records can be a slightly daunting prospect as the catalogue detail tends...Records and researchStrange meeting: from Voysey’s heresy to Aldred’s anarchismFriday 15 December 2017To me, ‘The Sling and the Stone’ seemed an odd entry to find in...Records and researchThe sinking of SS Mendi: an avoidable tragedyTuesday 21 February 2017The sea was calm on the afternoon of 20 February 1917 as the SS...Records and researchTwickenham to Tanganyika: an extraordinary naval expeditionWednesday 30 September 2015It is sometimes said that truth is stranger than fiction, a maxim which undoubtedly... 1 2 »