Category: Records and research 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...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... « 1 … 29 30 31 32 33 … 114 »