Category: Records and research 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...Records and research‘Racism Past and Present’: Mixing therapeutic practice with archival researchThursday 19 November 2020Earlier this year, before the COVID-19 outbreak, The National Archives and Stillpoint Spaces embarked...Records and research‘The industrial bedlam of modern Britain’: The problem of noise in the 1950s and 60sTuesday 17 November 2020Historical evidence is dominated by visual materials, from archival manuscripts and newspaper print to...Records and research‘Many adventures!’ British archivists in Italy during the Second World WarThursday 12 November 2020You may have heard of, or seen, George Clooney’s ‘The Monuments Men’ film. It...Records and researchLGBTQ+ visibility and archives: History between the linesFriday 6 November 2020Please note: This blogpost will use LGBTQ+ as an umbrella term to describe lesbian,... « 1 … 24 25 26 27 28 … 114 »