Category: Records and research 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...Records and researchDeceptive, deviant and dextrous: Your humble petitioners?Tuesday 10 December 2019What happened to petition fraudsters in the 19th century? Desperate women deserted by their...Records and researchWine: A taste of the archiveMonday 9 December 2019The National Archives has recently hosted two wine tasting sessions. This may seem a...Records and researchThalidomide: Limb-fitting centresMonday 9 December 2019Thalidomide was one of the worst man-made medical disasters in history and had far-reaching...Records and research‘The merry adventures of two Military Attachés’Friday 6 December 2019Serendipity often occurs in the course of archival research. While looking for something entirely... « 1 … 34 35 36 37 38 … 115 »