Posts by Jo Pugh Behind the scenesMind your manors: Hacking like it’s 1399Thursday 7 July 2022One hundred years ago, the Law of Property Act (1922) brought to an end...Archives and archivistsResearch Exchange: Interpretation in digital researchFriday 8 October 2021Our Research Exchange series features interviews with researchers across The National Archives in which...Archives and archivistsDon’t get trampled in the online rush: Advice for making archive collections accessible during the shutdownFriday 10 April 2020In a rush to digital, important things sometimes get forgotten....Records and researchHow to read 43,000 cabinet papersWednesday 20 December 2017I used to spend a chunk of my time pretending to be Winston Churchill...Records and researchHow to escape from an embassyThursday 26 November 2015The counter-intuitive thing about being trapped in an embassy is that everyone involved always...Records and researchYour disco needs youFriday 19 December 2014The National Archives was in the grip of the 1970s when I first joined...Archives and archivistsLost cities and found documents: do we ever discover in archives?Friday 25 April 2014I like a good lost city. Found cities are interesting (Troy, for example) but...Records and researchDaybreak in Udi and the lost OscarThursday 21 February 2013Watching old films is always a bit of hunt for buried treasure, particularly if...Records and researchIs that all there is?Friday 20 July 2012My colleague looked at the article with a mixture of surprise and mild horror....Records and researchWatching the skies and taking coverThursday 7 June 2012Sometimes, when searching through the catalogue (inevitably for other things), files leap out that...Records and researchA desert island from my shelfMonday 14 May 2012When you work in an archive, a certain amount of shelving is, of course,...Technology and innovation#hackon12: We came, we saw, we didn’t sleep muchWednesday 28 March 2012A few weeks ago when I talked about the purpose of hack days I... 1 2 »