All posts Records and researchLiving with leprosy in late medieval EnglandThursday 5 December 2019Leprosy – now known as Hansen’s disease in order to remove the stigma with...Records and research‘Needs tactful and sympathetic treatment’: Mental health during the First World WarMonday 2 December 2019The image of the shell shocked soldier remains one of the most enduring of...Archives and archivistsBaffled by archives: Part oneFriday 29 November 2019After 20 years of living in a world with Google in it, many web...Records and researchMedieval mental illness and care in the community: Emma de Beston’s case, 1383Thursday 28 November 2019For Disability History Month, we ask, 'What happened in the medieval period when people...Records and researchDamnified, quantified and classified: Descriptions of disability in government recordsMonday 25 November 2019Disability History Month runs from 22 November to 22 December. To mark it, The...Records and researchErnie and Geof: Love between menWednesday 20 November 2019In November 1920 the youthful Ernest [Ernie] Smyth was arrested. At 22 years old...Archives and archivistsSuffragettes and the Black Friday protests: 18 November 1910Monday 18 November 2019The 18th of November 1910 is one of the iconic dates in the history...Behind the scenes‘Behind the scenes’: Take a tour of The National ArchivesFriday 15 November 2019It is said that only one tenth of an iceberg is ever visible –...Records and research‘Bohemian, broad-minded, unconventional.’ What was it like to be queer in the 1920s?Thursday 14 November 2019In the 1920s, an era when the law criminalised your love, how was it...Archives and archivistsThe pannotype mystery: Part 2 – identifying rare historic photographic processesTuesday 12 November 2019In our previous blog, we talked about finding rare historic photographic processes in one...Archives and archivistsThe power of photography: Black History Month at Roehampton LibraryFriday 8 November 2019As part of Black History Month, the Outreach team at The National Archives decamped...Records and researchFall of the WallWednesday 6 November 2019The Berlin Wall was breached 30 years ago, on 9 November 1989. In this... « 1 … 48 49 50 51 52 … 168 »