Category: Records and research Records and researchOne positive outcome from a terrible disasterThursday 7 April 2022This is the latest in a series of blogs to promote the work of...Records and researchThe Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands and Sir Rex HuntSaturday 2 April 2022For Sir Rex Hunt, Governor of the Falkland Islands, Thursday 1 April 1982 ‘began...Records and researchThe Falklands Conflict 40th anniversary: Researching Operation CorporateFriday 1 April 2022As the official archive for the UK Government, it is perhaps unsurprising that The...Records and researchImproving the nation’s stock for ‘Great and Greater Britain’: Eugenics in the 1920sWednesday 30 March 2022The practice of eugenics - that is, selectively encouraging people with what are perceived...Records and researchLepers of Maiden Bradley: Tracing the lives of women in medieval leper hospitalsTuesday 29 March 2022The leper hospital of Maiden Bradley was founded prior to 1164 by Manasser Biset,...Records and researchFamily planning in the 1920s: Marie Stopes and the ‘wise precaution of delay’Tuesday 29 March 2022was published. Aimed at married couples, it became an instant bestseller and went through...Records and researchHannah More: A woman of lettersMonday 28 March 2022Hannah More (1745-1833) used her pen and her literary talents to promote four main...Records and researchThe 1922 Wilmcote railway accident: 100 years onThursday 24 March 2022You probably won’t have heard of Edward Sherwood, Lewis Washburn, George Booker or William...Records and research100 years ago: ‘Egypt is declared to be an independent sovereign State’Thursday 17 March 2022One hundred years ago, on 28 February 1922, Edmund Allenby, the British High-Commissioner in...Records and researchJeannie Cameron and the case of the three JennysWednesday 16 March 2022To coincide with March’s Women’s History Month, I highlight records associated with a somewhat...Records and researchWomen in the Second World War: The sinking of SS Khedive IsmailTuesday 15 March 2022On the afternoon of 12 February 1944, travelling in a convoy from Mombasa to...Records and researchWomen in the Second World War: Military service in East AfricaTuesday 8 March 2022The four distinct women’s services auxiliary to the British Army in East Africa were... « 1 … 15 16 17 18 19 … 114 »