All posts 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?...Records and researchAccroaching royal power in 1380s London: The downfall of Nicholas BrembreMonday 20 February 2023Explore the downfall of a key figure of 1380s London, a period characterised by...Records and researchThe Bag of SecretsThursday 16 February 2023What is the 'Bag of Secrets' and how did it come to exist?...Archives and archivistsLocal studies at The National Archives and beyondWednesday 15 February 2023We reflect on the practice of local studies and highlight the launch of a... « 1 … 7 8 9 10 11 … 168 »