Posts by Dr Juliette Desplat Records and research‘The merry adventures of two Military Attachés’Friday 6 December 2019Serendipity often occurs in the course of archival research. While looking for something entirely...Records and researchForeign and Commonwealth Office files from 1990: ‘United Germany’Wednesday 28 August 2019Today, we are releasing new FCO 33 files for 1990, a large number of...Records and researchThe skull of Sultan MkwawaThursday 15 August 2019Signed on 28 June 1919, the Treaty of Versailles ended the war between Germany...Records and researchTo the Moon and back: an ‘epic voyage of discovery’Friday 19 July 2019In 1902, a French film, A Trip to the Moon, related the extraordinary journey...Records and researchAn undiplomatic diplomat: Morton Howell in CairoThursday 4 July 2019According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a diplomat is ‘a person who can deal...Records and researchThe Cairo Museum that never wasFriday 26 April 2019Very few things are actually better than the opening of a new archaeological museum....Records and researchArchaeology and the Second World War in IraqFriday 1 March 2019A new law on antiquities was approved in Iraq in 1936. Drafted by Sati...Records and researchSpy, scoundrel and scholar: Leo Frobenius’ mission to AbyssiniaWednesday 14 November 2018It is a rare treat in any archive to be able to look at...Records and researchSpy or scholar? Meet Dr Curt PrüferMonday 24 September 2018During the First World War, British Intelligence made good use of scholars – notably archaeologists and...Records and researchApocalypse Then: the Battle of Megiddo, 1918Friday 21 September 2018They are demonic spirits that perform signs, and they go out to the kings...Records and researchWorld Cup fever at its worst: the 1969 Football WarFriday 20 July 2018Missing the World Cup already? It ended well for France, who got a second...Records and research‘Fighting like angry sheep’: Wendell Phillips in the GulfTuesday 29 May 2018Wendell Philipps has often been described by the press as ‘America’s Lawrence of Arabia’,... « 1 2 3 4 5 »