Category: Records and research Archives and archivistsHow Findmypast is helping us provide access to the 1921 CensusWednesday 27 October 2021The announcement that the 1921 Census will be available online from next January will...Archives and archivistsConserving the 1921 CensusWednesday 27 October 2021In the context of the 1921 Census, conservation means conservation for digitisation....Records and researchThe Hoefle Telegram in the new Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War MuseumMonday 25 October 2021After almost six years in the making, Imperial War Museums (IWM) London opened new...Records and researchHome truths: Improving community relations by funding trips to Commonwealth countriesFriday 22 October 2021In 1969 the Central Office of Information (COI) made a film about a scheme...Records and researchCataloguing and analysing 19th-century artworkThursday 21 October 2021The National Archives holds an incredible collection of artwork submitted to the Stationers’ Company...Records and researchThe Jacobite Earl of Mar: A double agent?Tuesday 19 October 2021A previously overlooked document among State Papers in The National Archives may have the...Records and research‘Bandits, guerrillas, terrorists’: The role of the Central Office of Information during the Malayan ‘Emergency’ (1948-60)Thursday 14 October 2021In 1948, Britain declared a state of ‘Emergency’ in Malaya, an area in Southeast...Records and researchMarkets, London buses and motifs: Untold tales of the Festival of BritainThursday 30 September 2021Seventy years ago today, on 30 September 1951, the Festival of Britain took down...Records and researchHMS Artemis: A real-life submarine drama in two actsMonday 27 September 2021The recent BBC drama ‘Vigil’ was set on a fictional Royal Navy Vanguard-class submarine,...Records and research‘Importuning men’: Sex work and the male tradeTuesday 14 September 2021The majority of records relating to sex work in the archives are about female...Records and researchThe Great Tea Race of 1866Monday 6 September 2021When you look at it today, the phrase ‘for all the tea in China’...Records and researchCharles Harold Moore: The Victorian one-legged champion swimmerFriday 3 September 2021Charles Harold Moore was a champion one-legged swimmer in the Victorian period. Moore began... « 1 … 19 20 21 22 23 … 114 »