Posts by Dr Richard Dunley Archives and archivists‘That Point of Land Opposite’: Kowloon and the founding of Hong KongMonday 18 June 2018Over the past couple of months, The National Archives has been putting online our...Records and researchCatalogue as data: hacking the paperThursday 3 May 2018A little while ago I produced a couple of blogs looking at how you...Records and researchCaviar is for battleships: Intelligence and the late Victorian Royal NavyMonday 16 April 2018Special codes, wiretapping, and secret communication devices disguised as flag poles: this all sounds...Behind the scenesMachines reading the archive: handwritten text recognition softwareMonday 19 March 2018Any researcher who has used online newspaper archives, repositories of digitised books or even...Archives and archivistsCatalogue as Data: the Prize Papers from the 2nd Anglo-Dutch WarThursday 1 February 2018In my last blog I highlighted the opportunities of using cataloguing as an historical dataset,...Archives and archivistsCatalogue as Data: the basicsWednesday 24 January 2018Any researcher interested in working with historical data knows that the most difficult and...Records and researchSex, Spies and another Scandal: the other Profumo affairTuesday 28 November 2017At the height of the Profumo affair, the greatest British political scandal of the...Records and researchBunga bunga! The great Edwardian Dreadnought hoaxMonday 16 October 2017On the late afternoon of 7 February 1910, four men in long robes, accompanied by...Records and researchMers-el-Kébir: the prequel?Monday 19 June 2017For many across the Channel the events of 3 July 1940 represent the ultimate...Records and researchBritain’s secret war against the SovietsWednesday 19 April 2017Letters written by two young men give an extraordinary personal perspective on a forgotten...Records and researchPaddy Costello: Soviet spy or political intellectual?Tuesday 11 April 2017Costello was an academic, soldier and diplomat, who remains as controversial now as he...Records and researchCurzon’s curiosMonday 20 February 2017The Curzon correspondence has not disappointed in providing candid and amusing anecdotes, shedding light... 1 2 3 »