Category: Records and research Records and researchBefore Notting Hill: Causeway Green and Britain’s anti-black hostel riotsMonday 22 June 2020The dominant narrative of post-war ‘race’ relations in Britain begins with the Empire Windrush...Records and research‘France has lost a battle! But France hasn’t lost the war!’Monday 22 June 202080 years ago, on 18 June 1940, powerful words were pronounced on the BBC,...Records and researchRefugee Week 2020: ‘We were the lucky few’Friday 19 June 2020Refugee Week (15-21 June) happens each year. It is a significant opportunity to hear...Archives and archivistsA face through time: Further opening up our prisoner of war recordsThursday 18 June 2020There are millions of stories, both personal and political, buried inside the hundreds of...Records and researchThe displacement of Poles and their subsequent resettlement in the United Kingdom, 1939-1949Wednesday 17 June 2020A plethora of information exists in our collections on Poland and the plight of...Records and researchBritain and Assyrian refugees after the First World WarTuesday 16 June 2020This blog post is part one of three in our Refugee Stories series for...Records and research‘Peace to millions of women’: A history of the cervical smear testMonday 15 June 2020This blog, published as part of Cervical Screening Awareness Week (15-21 June 2020), looks...Records and researchEscape and evade: Breaking out of Occupied Europe in 1940Friday 12 June 2020Having located a map on a desk of a house in Dieppe, northern France,...Records and researchThe birds and the bees: Sex education in the early 20th centuryThursday 11 June 2020In 1914 a very concerned father sent a letter to the school teaching his...Records and researchInternment of enemy aliens in 1940: The fate of Italians resident in a Britain at warWednesday 10 June 2020Eighty years ago today, on Monday 10 June 1940, Benito Mussolini declared war on...Records and researchThe Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520Tuesday 9 June 2020Exactly 500 years ago, Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France took...Records and research1380s Conflict in Beverley: The relationship of the town and minster with the Archbishops of YorkMonday 8 June 2020Yesterday marked the official retirement of John Sentamu, the 97th archbishop of York. The... « 1 … 28 29 30 31 32 … 114 »