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Tag: books
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Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: extraordinary mother and daughter
The centenary commemoration of Women’s Suffrage has cast a spotlight of the lives of extraordinary women in the last 100 years. However, today I’d like to... read more
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New Year reads: The Secret Life of Bletchley Park
Winston Churchill said in June 1940, ‘We shall fight on the beaches’… and so we did, but we also fought in the huts at Bletchley Park, one of Winston&... read more
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Ideas for your Christmas list
It’s getting closer… Not so close that you need to panic: there’s still plenty of time to buy presents. But it is close enough that you need to gr... read more
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The not so distant sound of jingle bells
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat… I know you are in denial, we all are. But Guy Fawkes night has passed and it is high time you knuckled down an... read more
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Step into The National Archives’ library
Twenty years ago, we first opened our research library to the public. This anniversary seemed an appropriate time for me to see what I could uncover about the... read more
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Reading about railways
Trains cause frustrations at times but where would we be without them?... read more
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Dunkirk on film and in print
Have you seen Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and now want to explore the history in more depth?... read more
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Something about Jane
With the bicentenary of Austen’s death, we look at Austen-related books in our shop...... read more
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Food for thought: eating with Queen Victoria and Mrs Beeton
'Human lives are marked out in meals,' observes food historian Annie Gray…... read more
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The hocus pocus of witchcraft
Discover five books focused on the history of withcraft and magic, and the figure of the witch…... read more
