All posts 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...Records and research‘Racism Past and Present’: Mixing therapeutic practice with archival researchThursday 19 November 2020Earlier this year, before the COVID-19 outbreak, The National Archives and Stillpoint Spaces embarked...Archives and archivistsResearch Exchange: Jonathan Mackman on The Northern Way ProjectWednesday 18 November 2020Thinking about the medieval period often conjures up images of treason, disease, war and...Records and research‘The industrial bedlam of modern Britain’: The problem of noise in the 1950s and 60sTuesday 17 November 2020Historical evidence is dominated by visual materials, from archival manuscripts and newspaper print to...Records and research‘Many adventures!’ British archivists in Italy during the Second World WarThursday 12 November 2020You may have heard of, or seen, George Clooney’s ‘The Monuments Men’ film. It... « 1 … 35 36 37 38 39 … 168 »