Posts by Dr Sean Cunningham Records and researchRemembering the Oaks Colliery Disaster of 12 and 13 December, 1866Tuesday 13 December 2022For anyone with mining ancestors or connection to the mining industry, the anniversary of...Archives and archivistsUsing Archives in the Past: Medieval deeds repositories and the duchy of Lancaster’s Great Cowcher bookTuesday 22 November 2022Medieval specialists at The National Archives have been developing a major research project on...Records and researchSpending Power: Cataloguing Exchequer warrants from the Wars of the RosesMonday 22 November 2021In late medieval England the monarch’s money was collected, stored and spent by officials...Records and researchHow to kill a queen? Preparing for the execution of Anne Boleyn in May 1536Wednesday 25 November 2020English-born queens were rare in medieval England. Edward IV and Henry VII had viewed...Records and researchThe Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520Tuesday 9 June 2020Exactly 500 years ago, Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France took...Records and researchKatherine of Aragon and an army for the North in 1513Wednesday 20 May 2020In 1513, with Henry VIII at war in France, Queen Katherine of Aragon ruled...Records and researchMedieval mental illness and care in the community: Emma de Beston’s case, 1383Thursday 28 November 2019For Disability History Month, we ask, 'What happened in the medieval period when people...Records and researchRemembering England’s Medieval JewsTuesday 10 March 2015Events on 27 January to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau...Records and researchReburial of King Richard IIIFriday 29 August 2014Many people will have been amazed at the depth of feeling generated on both...