Category: Records and research Records and researchThe birth (and the death?) of Edward VMonday 2 November 2020In this blog I take a look at some of those left behind in...Records and researchW E B Du Bois: Letter to LondonThursday 29 October 2020In May 1921 W E B Du Bois wrote to Winston Churchill, then Secretary...Records and researchResearching Africa at The National ArchivesThursday 22 October 2020In the course of Britain’s long-term involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and its...Records and researchThe 550th anniversary of Henry VI’s ReadeptionFriday 2 October 2020October 2020 marks the start of the 550th anniversary of what historians know as...Records and researchEscape from ColditzTuesday 29 September 2020The location of Colditz Castle, situated on a steep conical hill above the River...Records and researchPublicising the Battle of Britain: Creative publishing in the Second World WarTuesday 22 September 2020The Battle of Britain occupies a powerful place in the British cultural memory of...Records and researchThe Home Office: Then and nowMonday 21 September 2020For more than 10 years volunteers at The National Archives have been cataloguing a...Records and researchThe South Sea Bubble of 1720Friday 18 September 2020This year marks the 300th anniversary of one of the most famous financial crashes...Records and researchThe British sailor murdered at Bergen-Belsen: The 75th anniversary of the Bergen-Belsen TrialsFriday 18 September 2020At 22:00 on the evening of 7 April 1945, an Austrian Jew named Rolf...Records and researchTurning points in the Battle of Britain: The report of RAF Air Vice-Marshal Keith ParkTuesday 15 September 2020On the 80th anniversary of Battle of Britain Day, it is important to ask...Records and researchThe British POWs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945Friday 4 September 2020When one considers the formal conclusion of the war against Japan 75 years ago,...Records and researchSoviet-Japan and the termination of the Second World WarWednesday 2 September 202075 years ago today, in the morning of Sunday 2 September 1945, the Japanese... « 1 … 25 26 27 28 29 … 114 »