All posts Archives and archivistsExploring computational access to the UK Government Web Archive (Part 1)Thursday 1 December 2022The UK Government Web Archive (UKGWA) preserves the websites and social media accounts of...Records and researchWinston Churchill’s hearing lossWednesday 30 November 2022Winston Churchill experienced ill health throughout his life; he caught pneumonia multiple times, sustained...Records and researchRemembering the Crystal Palace fire of 1936Wednesday 30 November 2022On the evening of 30 November 1936, a fire was discovered within the Crystal...Records and researchNeither a British subject nor a British protected personTuesday 29 November 2022The First World War unleashed a significant ‘anti-alien’ backlash, focused initially on Germans living...Records and researchThe Sheriff, the Nave, and Chaucer tooMonday 28 November 2022The origins of the earliest architectural drawing in The National Archives are shrouded in...Archives and archivistsPre-Raphaelites, John Bull and lobsters: Highlights from cataloguing the Stationers’ Company copyright collectionFriday 25 November 2022For the last few years, our dedicated team of volunteers have been working hard...Archives and archivistsProject Omega: First sight of the new cataloguing systemFriday 25 November 2022Since 2019, we have been working on the creation of a new catalogue management...Archives and archivistsZSPC11: An example of innovation through a pandemicFriday 25 November 2022For Catalogue Week 2022, lead volunteer Mel Draper traces the work of the ZSCP...Archives and archivistsCataloguing CO 730: Opening up perspectives on early 20th-century IraqFriday 25 November 2022This November, a group of three volunteers have finished a cataloguing project working on...Archives and archivistsA Court at the crossroads of Empire: The papers of the Judicial Committee of the Privy CouncilThursday 24 November 2022The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was created by statute in 1833. Sitting...Archives and archivistsCaptures and cargoes: Preying on enemy shipping in the 1740sThursday 24 November 2022The Prize Papers Project has now been running since May 2018, with the team...Archives and archivistsThe Trade in Yellow: Cataloguing the Home Office Correspondence, King George IIIThursday 24 November 2022The Home Office Correspondence from the reign of King George III, held in record... « 1 … 11 12 13 14 15 … 168 »