Category: Records and research Behind the scenesWorking with volunteers to rehouse films and negativesFriday 5 June 2020To celebrate National Volunteers’ Week, today we focus our attention on a project involving...Records and researchMiracles and Myths: The Dunkirk Evacuation – Part 3: Were the French abandoned at Dunkirk?Thursday 4 June 2020By far the most destructive of all the myths to emerge from the story...Behind the scenesPictures of the past: Cataloguing COPY 1 paintings and drawingsWednesday 3 June 2020To celebrate National Volunteers’ Week, today we focus our attention on a project to improve...Records and researchShut up: Quarantine and social distancing during Tudor epidemicsWednesday 3 June 2020As the archive of medieval government and the law courts, our collections can shed...Records and researchMiracles and myths: The Dunkirk Evacuation – Part 2: The heroism of the Royal NavyTuesday 2 June 2020By 2 June 1940, Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF)...Records and researchComputing Cholera: Topic modelling the catalogue entries of the General Board of HealthTuesday 2 June 2020The 19th century saw a number of global cholera pandemics, beginning in India and...Records and researchThe Fourth Service: Cataloguing merchant seamen in the Second World WarMonday 1 June 2020To celebrate National Volunteers’ Week, today we focus our attention on the subject of...Records and researchCharles II’s Restoration, May 1660Friday 29 May 2020Charles Stuart was restored to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in May...Records and researchFifty years since the 1970 Equal Pay ActFriday 29 May 2020Today marks 50 years since the 1970 Equal Pay Act received royal assent –...Records and researchLight in the ‘darkest hour’Thursday 28 May 2020Tuesday 28 May 1940 was one of the most significant days in the course...Records and researchMiracles and myths: The Dunkirk Evacuation – Part 1: Where was the RAF?Tuesday 26 May 2020On 10 May 1940, Hitler’s forces suddenly opened their offensive in Western Europe. Attacking...Records and researchVital words of hope, 26 May 1940Tuesday 26 May 2020In his diary Neville Chamberlain described Sunday 26 May 1940 as ‘the blackest day... « 1 … 29 30 31 32 33 … 114 »