All posts Behind the scenesX-rays and wallpapers: the hunt for arsenicThursday 23 February 2017Our Collection Care department hunted for arsenic within historic wallpaper samples…...Behind the scenesWas the early 19th century ‘Taboo’?Wednesday 22 February 2017BBC One’s new period drama Taboo, set in 1814, is a far cry from...Records and researchThe sinking of SS Mendi: an avoidable tragedyTuesday 21 February 2017The sea was calm on the afternoon of 20 February 1917 as the SS...Records and researchCurzon’s curiosMonday 20 February 2017The Curzon correspondence has not disappointed in providing candid and amusing anecdotes, shedding light...Records and researchMerchant Navy shipwrecks in the First World WarFriday 17 February 2017Battles and diplomacy tend to dominate the narrative of the war, but little of...Records and researchDiscover local history in our libraryFriday 17 February 2017The National Archives' library has a fine collection of local history books - and...Records and researchLoyalty and dissent in the First World WarThursday 16 February 2017I have become increasingly fascinated and intrigued – as are many others - by...Records and researchClare Hollingworth: ‘A clever English journalist’Wednesday 15 February 2017War correspondent Clare Hollingworth filed the scoop of the century: the beginning of the...Behind the scenesDigitising and conserving black cultural historyMonday 13 February 2017I prepared and conserved the Adamah Family Collection before digitisation - a challenging project...Records and researchAntiquity versus modernity? Philae and the Aswan DamWednesday 8 February 2017The rescue of the temples of Philae in the 1970s is fairly well documented,...Records and researchLesney toys: they fit inside a matchboxMonday 6 February 2017From meeting in a virtually derelict pub to an Award for Industry, explore the...Records and research1717 and the invasion that never wasThursday 2 February 2017300 years ago, Swedish ambassadors attempted to foment an invasion plan and embark a... « 1 … 84 85 86 87 88 … 168 »