Category: Records and research 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...Records and researchLGBTQ+ lives through the censusMonday 28 February 2022Families come in all shapes and sizes. Same-sex couples now have the right to...Records and researchLocal history in The National Archives LibrarySunday 27 February 2022Archives of any kind are probably the best place to conduct local history research...Records and researchEquality of sexuality: The age of consentWednesday 23 February 2022The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 represented a partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality: it...Records and researchIntroducing the Printed Prize Appeals: Selected examples from HCA 45Tuesday 22 February 2022In the days when wooden ships could be taken by (threat of) force, without... « 1 … 15 16 17 18 19 … 114 »