All posts Records and researchThe Beeching AxeMonday 27 March 2023Today marks 60 years since the publication of The Reshaping of British Railways....Records and researchExamining the Foreign Office’s ‘Slave Trade Department’ recordsFriday 24 March 2023This blog examines what these records can tell us about the experiences of the...Records and researchProphet, prisoner and pretend prelate: Lady Eleanor Davies (1590–1652)Thursday 23 March 2023In 1636, a woman was was committed to Bethlem Hospital for her 'insufferable profanations'...Records and researchPolitical pioneers: The first 20 women in CabinetWednesday 22 March 2023Find out more about the first 20 female Cabinet ministers and their journeys into government....Records and researchThe 1794 trial of Thomas Hardy: ‘New-fangled treasons’Tuesday 21 March 2023Discover an attempt to reimagine treason as a primarily political crime aimed at the...Records and researchDockyard incendiarist: The tale of ‘John the Painter’Wednesday 15 March 2023246 years ago this month, James Aitken was publicly executed at Portsmouth for heinous...Behind the scenes‘For you, my friend, the war is over’: cataloguing 200,000 prisoner of war recordsMonday 13 March 2023National Archives volunteers have completed a major project to catalogue the personnel cards of...Records and researchThe treason of Sir Thomas MoreTuesday 7 March 2023Sir Thomas More was a leading Tudor statesman. What led to his execution?...Records and researchHow Florence Nightingale David saved lives during the Blitz – with statisticsFriday 3 March 2023We explore the wartime work carried out by this pioneering statistician...Records and research‘Excessive severity’: Treason and the Grenadian Rebellion of 1795Thursday 2 March 2023In this blog, curator Chris Day looks at how treason was used, and misused,...Records and researchA love story that threatened the Commonwealth: Seretse Khama and Ruth WilliamsMonday 27 February 2023Discover the marriage that caused a diplomatic storm at the end of the 1940s....Behind the scenesIntroduction to conservation for digitisationWednesday 22 February 2023The National Archives digitises over 40,000 records every year. Who prepares them?... « 1 … 7 8 9 10 11 … 168 »