Category: Records and research 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...Records and researchCast-iron cosiness: Designs for the Victorian hearthFriday 4 December 2020Cold, black metal might not be the first thing that comes to mind when...Records and researchA ‘new system of slavery’? The British West Indies and the origins of Indian indentureThursday 3 December 2020In March 1837, John Gladstone, a sugar plantation owner in British Guiana and representative...Archives and archivistsChancery Division of the High Court: Legal records of the 1870sThursday 26 November 2020As an archivist working at The National Archives, the first pandemic lockdown generated the...Records and researchThe Records of the Readeption Parliament of 1470-71Thursday 26 November 2020For most of the Parliaments of the later middle ages, the records are remarkably...Records and researchHow to kill a queen? Preparing for the execution of Anne Boleyn in May 1536Wednesday 25 November 2020English-born queens were rare in medieval England. Edward IV and Henry VII had viewed... « 1 … 24 25 26 27 28 … 114 »