Category: Records and research Records and researchThe Applications of Probability to Cryptography (Part 1)Friday 24 April 2020‘The Applications of Probability to Cryptography’ is a paper written by Alan Turing released...Records and researchDisappointed and forbidden loveThursday 23 April 2020A lovestruck medieval clerk writing out romantic lyrics as he daydreams. A gay man...Records and researchJohn Thomson: Victorian pioneer of photojournalismFriday 17 April 2020The copyright records held at The National Archives are a fantastic source for the...Behind the scenesExploring our family history resourcesThursday 16 April 2020The documents in our collection can play a vital role in piecing together your...Records and researchWar at Sea: Privateers and Prize PapersTuesday 14 April 2020When I think of war at sea, my mind turns to images of Trafalgar...Records and research‘Last term my rolls were painted very ill’: An early modern poem hidden among the records of the King’s BenchMonday 13 April 2020Hidden away in the King’s Bench plea roll for Trinity term 1627, however, is...Behind the scenesResearching while the archive is closed: Visual collectionsThursday 9 April 2020While The National Archives is closed, nobody can research using original documents. This, of...Archives and archivistsHidden messages in vintage paintingsWednesday 8 April 2020I expect we have all looked at old paintings in country houses or galleries,...Records and research‘For freedom alone’: The Declaration of Arbroath from English recordsMonday 6 April 2020April this year marks the 700th anniversary of the so-called Declaration of Arbroath, a seminal...Records and researchOperation Sandstone: Surveying Britain’s Cold War beachesFriday 3 April 2020On 16 September 1952, S J Bassett of the Naval Intelligence Department filed a...Records and research‘No vote, no census’: The 1911 suffrage census protestsThursday 2 April 2020On the night of 2 April 1911 census enumerators were collecting the details of...Records and researchThe birth of council housingTuesday 31 March 2020‘Deficiency of housing accommodation is one of the most prolific causes of industrial unrest.’... « 1 … 32 33 34 35 36 … 114 »