All posts Records and researchBullets and bacteriaThursday 19 March 2015What are you more scared of – a bullet or bacteria? To a soldier...Archives and archivistsInfinite variety: Archiving the ArtsMonday 16 March 2015What links a springboard , a sonnet, a commode, a peacock, many hairpins and...Records and research‘Munitions, more munitions, always more munitions’Friday 13 March 2015One hundred years ago today, the Battle of Neuve Chapelle was in its closing...Records and researchDeath of Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, 11 March 1955Wednesday 11 March 2015Sometimes myths grow up around a subject and become so well known that they obscure...Records and research‘A man one could do business with’Wednesday 11 March 2015‘Perestroika’ and ‘glasnost’. These are two Russian words you may have heard at school...Records and research‘For Valour’: the Garhwalis and Neuve ChapelleTuesday 10 March 2015Joseph Joffre, commander in chief of the French forces on the Western Front in...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 research‘You buy war bonds – we do the rest’Monday 9 March 2015Today the UK Government is due to pay back the outstanding £1.9 billion from...Records and research‘A triumph of hope over evidence’Friday 6 March 2015Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo, Fashoda, Mers-el-Kebir… With the England-France rugby game drawing closer, these are...Records and research‘The tragedy of the shells’Thursday 5 March 2015This is the first of three blog posts that will look at the establishment...Behind the scenesSpringtime in the bookshop (we hope)Wednesday 4 March 2015Although we are past St David’s Day it is still mainly dark and cold...Behind the scenesKeeper’s Gallery: Women in Second World War artTuesday 3 March 2015Our Keeper’s Gallery currently features a display highlighting women represented in original artwork from... « 1 … 114 115 116 117 118 … 169 »