Posts by Elizabeth Haines Records and researchNarrating ephemeral archival presence: LGBTQ+ histories and Colonial Office recordsWednesday 12 February 2025PhD student Garfield Campbell looks at the challenge of tracing LGBTQ+ lives in colonial...Archives and archivistsWalking through archived colonial histories, part 3: Tasmania to PerthTuesday 15 October 2024Our archival wandering ends as we follow displaced people across Australia....Behind the scenesLanguage and empire: Encountering records to write audio dramaMonday 2 September 2024We hear from audio drama writers Ery Nzaramba and Sharmila Chauhan....Records and researchSecond World War records in Swahili and Hindustani – in audio dramaMonday 12 August 2024Explore the records that inspired our new audio drama, Being and Not Being....Behind the scenesReimagining Ceylon’s tea plantation photography through sound and video gamesWednesday 31 July 2024How one researcher has creatively responded to The National Archives' collection via a video...Behind the scenes‘Perfectly suited to time travel’: Audio drama at The National ArchivesTuesday 23 July 2024Artistic director Fin Kennedy and writer Mel Pennant discuss audio storytelling....Records and research‘Curating crises’: Exploring histories of knowledge about volcanoes in the CaribbeanMonday 13 November 2023This summer saw the close of a two-year research project exploring the history of...Records and researchOgu Umunwanyi, Ekong Iban, Women’s War: A story of protest by Nigerian womenThursday 30 March 2023Why did thousands of Nigerian women begin a series of protests in 1929 and...Archives and archivistsCataloguing CO 730: Opening up perspectives on early 20th-century IraqFriday 25 November 2022This November, a group of three volunteers have finished a cataloguing project working on...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 researchIt’s only a game? Nothing could be further from the truthFriday 6 August 2021Looking at historical records gives us the opportunity to see how different things were...Records and researchA Magna Carta for refugeesWednesday 28 July 2021The 28th of July 2021 marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations’ 1951...