Category: Records and research 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...Records and researchThe Free Thai Movement and the SOEMonday 16 August 2021Siam (present day Thailand) was one of the first countries in South East Asia...Records and researchInsaaf: Exploring South Asian heritage through public information filmsWednesday 11 August 2021How did the British government communicate messages about racism and civil rights in the...Records and researchIt’s only a game? Nothing could be further from the truthFriday 6 August 2021Looking at historical records gives us the opportunity to see how different things were...Records and researchFighting the ’flu, 1918-1919 (Part two): First World War medical recordsFriday 30 July 2021The impact of the influenza on persons from the front can be discovered using...Records and researchThe rebel councillors: The 1921 Poplar Rates RebellionThursday 29 July 2021In 1921, 30 councillors and guardians were sent to prison for defying the government....Records and researchA Magna Carta for refugeesWednesday 28 July 2021The 28th of July 2021 marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations’ 1951...Records and researchFighting the ’flu, 1918-1919 (Part one)Tuesday 27 July 2021Just over a century ago, an unusually deadly influenza pandemic broke out, killing an... « 1 … 19 20 21 22 23 … 114 »