Category: Records and research Records and researchResist: Black Power in the courtroomThursday 30 January 2020In 1965 Britain passed the Race Relations Act, making it illegal to refuse service...Records and researchWar behind the wire: The story of allied civilians in occupied Europe during the Second World WarFriday 24 January 2020On 16 January 2018 I wrote an introductory blog on the project to catalogue...Records and researchReform: Violence and the struggle for suffrageThursday 23 January 2020The campaign for women’s suffrage is often characterised by its militant factions and leaders...Records and researchRevolt: The story of England’s first protestThursday 16 January 2020In 1990, a march in protest of the government’s Poll Tax turned violent as...Archives and archivistsHow Nazi ‘fake news’ split Allied commanders in 1945Wednesday 15 January 2020Seventy-five years ago this week the Battle of the Ardennes began to draw to...Records and researchNancy Astor: 100 years of women in ParliamentTuesday 14 January 20202019 marked the centenary of Nancy Astor’s entry into Parliament, leaving a fascinating legacy...Records and researchCoal, cricket and the camera: The photographs of Reverend F W CobbFriday 3 January 2020This is a story of how new and fascinating information about our collections can...Records and research100 years of women in the professions: The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919Monday 23 December 2019Last year we celebrated the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act,...Records and researchFrom Pinewood with LoveFriday 20 December 2019There are certain films that I’ve always associated with my youth – films that remind...Records and researchThe PQ 17 disaster and the first Churchill-Stalin summitThursday 19 December 2019At 17:00 on Wednesday 12 August 1942, a B-24 Liberator codenamed ‘Commando’ touched down...Behind the scenesMental Health on Record: A film created by young peopleMonday 16 December 2019‘Lunatic’, ‘hysterical’, ‘eccentric’, ‘imbecile’ are just some of the words which have been used...Records and research‘Not of so merry cheer’: Falling sickness in the early modern periodThursday 12 December 2019Contemporary definitions, diagnoses and cures for the neurological condition commonly known as falling sickness... « 1 … 33 34 35 36 37 … 114 »