Posts by Katherine Howells Records and researchThe Lion and Unicorn Pavilion: Legacies of the 1951 Festival of BritainTuesday 25 May 2021If you had taken a walk along the south bank of London’s River Thames...Records and researchPlaying cards captured at sea: Prize Papers of L’Aimable JulieWednesday 24 March 2021Some of The National Archives’ most striking visual records are found in the most...Records and researchChristmas with the Victorians: Upcoming eventsTuesday 3 November 2020The Christmas we enjoy today is heavily influenced by the Victorians. From the stories...Records and researchPublicising the Battle of Britain: Creative publishing in the Second World WarTuesday 22 September 2020The Battle of Britain occupies a powerful place in the British cultural memory of...Records and researchDepicting Japan in British propaganda of the Second World WarMonday 10 August 2020In the first few years of the Second World War, Britons’ knowledge of and...Records and researchA celebration of cats: The creative brilliance of artist Louis WainSaturday 8 August 2020Louis Wain was an artist who achieved great fame and success in the late...Behind the scenesPictures of the past: Cataloguing COPY 1 paintings and drawingsWednesday 3 June 2020To celebrate National Volunteers’ Week, today we focus our attention on a project to improve...Records and researchAnalysing professional photographic networks in 1900Friday 15 May 2020Evidence of the relationships between people, both personal and professional, can be found all...Records and researchJohn Thomson: Victorian pioneer of photojournalismFriday 17 April 2020The copyright records held at The National Archives are a fantastic source for the...Behind the scenesResearching while the archive is closed: Visual collectionsThursday 9 April 2020While The National Archives is closed, nobody can research using original documents. This, of...Archives and archivistsHow to date family photographsThursday 2 April 2020When photographs are passed down through generations of families, sometimes the stories of the...Records and researchCoal, cricket and the camera: The photographs of Reverend F W CobbFriday 3 January 2020This is a story of how new and fascinating information about our collections can...
