All posts Records and researchVerdict – Accidental death: The strange case of the Scottish aristocrat killed on the Midland RailwayFriday 22 January 2021Chris Heather writes: Over the past two years, The National Archives has been cataloguing a...Records and research‘Brown Babies’: The children born to black GI and white British women during the Second World WarMonday 4 January 2021In January 1942, after the US had entered the war, a large number of...Records and researchThe Ghost of Christmas past? St Thomas Becket and Edwardian CanterburyTuesday 29 December 2020Everyone loves a ghost story at Christmas, right? One might even say they represent...Records and researchGood will to all: Henry VI’s Christmas pardon of 1470-71Friday 18 December 2020Those watching in bemusement, as every year before Thanksgiving the President of the United...Records and researchCast-iron cosiness: Designs for the Victorian hearthFriday 4 December 2020Cold, black metal might not be the first thing that comes to mind when...Records and researchA ‘new system of slavery’? The British West Indies and the origins of Indian indentureThursday 3 December 2020In March 1837, John Gladstone, a sugar plantation owner in British Guiana and representative...Archives and archivistsEngaging the public with archive material at East Riding ArchivesTuesday 1 December 2020In the Bridging the Digital Gap programme, eight trainees a year bring their digital...Archives and archivistsCatalogue Day 2020 at The National ArchivesFriday 27 November 2020The final Friday in November traditionally marks the annual Catalogue Day at The National...Archives and archivistsChancery Division of the High Court: Legal records of the 1870sThursday 26 November 2020As an archivist working at The National Archives, the first pandemic lockdown generated the...Records and researchThe Records of the Readeption Parliament of 1470-71Thursday 26 November 2020For most of the Parliaments of the later middle ages, the records are remarkably...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...Archives and archivistsResearch Exchange: Paul Dryburgh on The Northern Way ProjectMonday 23 November 2020This is the second blog in our Research Exchange series, interviews with researchers across... « 1 … 35 36 37 38 39 … 169 »