Category: Records and research Records and researchMy ancestor was… a traffic officer. How the UK Government Web Archive might help the family and social historians of the futureTuesday 28 August 2012 Not long after I joined The National Archives someone asked me whether I...Records and researchVisualising Government: Spaghetti, Sketching, and Compressing TimeFriday 24 August 2012TS – Have you ever wondered what happened to those departments that suddenly disappeared...Records and researchFocus on the Paralympics… Thanks for the warm up!Wednesday 22 August 2012My colleague Cathy Williams is making another of her guest posts about records relating...Records and researchA singular nameMonday 13 August 2012‘A Somerset House clerk once declared that the tedium of his labour on the registry...Behind the scenesFilming DomesdayThursday 9 August 2012Last night’s episode of Restoration Home featured an unusual reference for the series. It referred to a Domesday entry about a manor...Records and researchResearch publicationsWednesday 8 August 2012Colleagues at The National Archives are busy people! Not only are they working hard...Archives and archivistsWhat I did on my holidays – or, the potential of museum archivesMonday 6 August 2012It seems appropriate for a holiday period to talk about a place I have...Records and researchA very, very, very fine houseFriday 3 August 2012I wish this was my house but, sadly, it isn’t. It’s Forty Hall, a...Records and researchUK Government – did we rule the Empire with 4,000 civil servants?Wednesday 1 August 2012I was interested in some of the wider questions that were raised over the...Records and researchOlympics – PE kits and tuck boxesFriday 27 July 2012When I first heard about The Olympic Record, a site dedicated to making a...Records and researchReflections of a Collaborative Doctoral Award studentMonday 23 July 2012Over the last few years The National Archives has been highly successful in expanding...Records and researchIs that all there is?Friday 20 July 2012My colleague looked at the article with a mixture of surprise and mild horror.... « 1 … 108 109 110 111 112 … 114 »