All posts Behind the scenesModelling our digital archival dataFriday 26 January 2018The National Archives’ Digital Strategy (2017-19) identifies the challenges we face as we become a...Archives and archivistsCatalogue as Data: the basicsWednesday 24 January 2018Any researcher interested in working with historical data knows that the most difficult and...Records and researchDeath, the doctor and the detective writerThursday 18 January 2018Recently, while researching documents to use as part of a document display, I chanced...Records and researchLady Jane Grey’s correspondenceTuesday 16 January 2018Lady Jane Grey is perhaps the least known English queen of the sixteenth century...Behind the scenesOpening up our prisoner of war collectionTuesday 16 January 2018In December 2014, the Ministry of Defence transferred to The National Archives the series...Behind the scenesDigital apprentices at The National ArchivesWednesday 10 January 2018In July, five Software Developers from the National College of Digital Skills (ADA) joined The...Behind the scenesNew Year reads: The Secret Life of Bletchley ParkMonday 8 January 2018Winston Churchill said in June 1940, ‘We shall fight on the beaches’… and so...Records and researchThe civil servant’s tale: Geoffrey Chaucer in the archives (part three)Tuesday 2 January 2018In part one and part two of this blog series I’ve been tracing the history...Records and researchCricket, tanks and panda-monium: files released from 1992Friday 29 December 2017In 2013 the government began its move towards releasing records when they are 20...Records and research‘…a strange story of spirits, and worth reading indeed’Friday 22 December 2017Wife and girl and I alone at dinner – a good Christmas dinner, and...Records and researchRosa May Billinghurst: suffragette, campaigner, ‘cripple’Friday 22 December 2017Friday 18 May 2018, 18:30 Suffrage 100 – Archives at night: Law breakers, law...Records and researchHow to read 43,000 cabinet papersWednesday 20 December 2017I used to spend a chunk of my time pretending to be Winston Churchill... « 1 … 71 72 73 74 75 … 168 »