All posts Records and researchHannah More: A woman of lettersMonday 28 March 2022Hannah More (1745-1833) used her pen and her literary talents to promote four main...Archives and archivistsResearch Exchange: An open access encyclopedia of British and European sociability in the long eighteenth centuryMonday 28 March 2022The DIGIT.EN.S digital encyclopedia, the first open-access encyclopedia of British and European sociability in...Archives and archivistsResearch Exchange: Engaging CrowdsMonday 28 March 2022‘Engaging Crowds’ is a project led by The National Archives, in partnership with Royal...Records and researchThe 1922 Wilmcote railway accident: 100 years onThursday 24 March 2022You probably won’t have heard of Edward Sherwood, Lewis Washburn, George Booker or William...Records and research100 years ago: ‘Egypt is declared to be an independent sovereign State’Thursday 17 March 2022One hundred years ago, on 28 February 1922, Edmund Allenby, the British High-Commissioner in...Records and researchJeannie Cameron and the case of the three JennysWednesday 16 March 2022To coincide with March’s Women’s History Month, I highlight records associated with a somewhat...Records and researchWomen in the Second World War: The sinking of SS Khedive IsmailTuesday 15 March 2022On the afternoon of 12 February 1944, travelling in a convoy from Mombasa to...Behind the scenesReturning to on site learningThursday 10 March 2022Who would have thought when we shut and locked the doors behind our last...Records and researchWomen in the Second World War: Military service in East AfricaTuesday 8 March 2022The four distinct women’s services auxiliary to the British Army in East Africa were...Records and researchLGBTQ+ lives through the censusMonday 28 February 2022Families come in all shapes and sizes. Same-sex couples now have the right to...Records and researchLocal history in The National Archives LibrarySunday 27 February 2022Archives of any kind are probably the best place to conduct local history research...Technology and innovationPRONOM: A database centenaryThursday 24 February 2022Recently The National Archives released the 100th version of PRONOM but many people may... « 1 … 22 23 24 25 26 … 169 »