Category: Records and research Records and researchFanny and Stella: Piecing together LGBTQ+ histories and telling the storiesTuesday 23 February 2021It has been 150 years since the trial of The Queen v Boulton and...Records and researchThe extraordinary life of Douglas BaderSunday 21 February 2021Born 111 years ago today, Douglas Bader would grow up to be a Royal...Records and researchThe Khilafat Movement in KewTuesday 16 February 2021Among the vast collection of documents relating to the fallout from the First World...Records and research‘Queer’ history: A history of QueerTuesday 9 February 2021‘I honestly thought you were queer, but different from the others, and I liked...Behind the scenesFive Photos: Exploring a mindful archiveMonday 8 February 2021How useful are archives right now? I don’t mean to be provocative. Like many...Records and researchThe makings of manuscripts: More than what’s written on the pageFriday 5 February 2021To celebrate National Storytelling Week 2021 I want to dive into the world of...Records and researchSearching for Cliff TyrellThursday 28 January 2021Much has been written about the relationship between the Caribbean and Britain, particularly around...Records and research‘The Great Experiment’: Explaining the advent of indenture to the West IndiesTuesday 26 January 2021Between the abolition of slavery in 1834 and the First World War, more than...Records and researchVerdict – Accidental death: The strange case of the Scottish aristocrat killed on the Midland RailwayFriday 22 January 2021Chris Heather writes: Over the past two years, The National Archives has been cataloguing a...Records and research‘Brown Babies’: The children born to black GI and white British women during the Second World WarMonday 4 January 2021In January 1942, after the US had entered the war, a large number of...Records and researchThe Ghost of Christmas past? St Thomas Becket and Edwardian CanterburyTuesday 29 December 2020Everyone loves a ghost story at Christmas, right? One might even say they represent...Records and researchGood will to all: Henry VI’s Christmas pardon of 1470-71Friday 18 December 2020Those watching in bemusement, as every year before Thanksgiving the President of the United... « 1 … 23 24 25 26 27 … 114 »