Category: Records and research Behind the scenesMultisensory archive, part 2: Using our senses to access and engage with collectionsThursday 10 October 2024How can we can engage with archival collections through smell, sound, and touch?...Behind the scenesMultisensory archive, part 1: Sensory characteristics of archival documentsWednesday 9 October 2024From parchment and paper to microfilm, discover how archival material can be engaged with...Behind the scenesEducation in exile: Cataloguing Polish refugee education filesMonday 7 October 2024Read personal reflections from Polish refugees who came to Britain after the Second World...Records and researchA Great Escape from Castello di VincigliataMonday 30 September 2024Discover how Second World War PoWs escaped an Italian castle....Records and researchTracing merchant seamen in the 19th centuryTuesday 17 September 2024Thanks to our offsite volunteers it's now easier to research 19th century life at...Archives and archivistsInterwar welfare in Cardiff’s Tiger BayTuesday 10 September 2024Read about how multi-racial families were supported in interwar Butetown....Behind the scenesLanguage and empire: Encountering records to write audio dramaMonday 2 September 2024We hear from audio drama writers Ery Nzaramba and Sharmila Chauhan....Records and researchSecond World War records in Swahili and Hindustani – in audio dramaMonday 12 August 2024Explore the records that inspired our new audio drama, Being and Not Being....Behind the scenesReimagining Ceylon’s tea plantation photography through sound and video gamesWednesday 31 July 2024How one researcher has creatively responded to The National Archives' collection via a video...Records and researchStudying away from home: British Council scholarship students 1937–1948Wednesday 31 July 2024What did people who came to the UK from across the world experience?...Records and researchMaking archives fun for visually impaired studentsTuesday 30 July 2024Ellen Oredsson shares her Professional Fellowship research project...Behind the scenes‘Perfectly suited to time travel’: Audio drama at The National ArchivesTuesday 23 July 2024Artistic director Fin Kennedy and writer Mel Pennant discuss audio storytelling.... « 1 2 3 4 … 114 »