Category: Records and research Behind the scenesLetters Unread: Opening closed letters in the Prize Papers projectMonday 20 November 2023Conservator Camilla Camus-Doughan showcases how she opened envelopes that had been sealed for centuries....Records and researchResearching Section 28Wednesday 15 November 2023Vicky Iglikowski-Broad reflects on researching Section 28 ahead of the anniversary of its repeal....Records and research‘Curating crises’: Exploring histories of knowledge about volcanoes in the CaribbeanMonday 13 November 2023This summer saw the close of a two-year research project exploring the history of...Records and researchAaron Graham and the prison hulks of the early 19th centuryWednesday 1 November 2023Volunteer Carol Kellas looks at how one man improved the lives of prisoners on...Records and researchCatalogued: The State Papers of George IIITuesday 24 October 2023Dedicated volunteers have described 2,749 items from the years 1760 to 1783. What did they find?...Records and researchThe early photography of Hong Kong at The National ArchivesThursday 19 October 2023Angela Cheung investigates a photo album called ‘Hongkong & Macao, The Typhoon of 22 Sept 1874’...Records and researchMapping Caribbean migration to BritainMonday 9 October 2023Trace the journeys of passengers aboard three post-war ships from the Caribbean to Britain,...Records and researchFor outstanding bravery: Civilian honours in the Second World WarTuesday 26 September 2023How courageous civilians were recognised for outstanding acts of bravery during The Second World...Records and researchThe Denning Committee on Legal RecordsMonday 11 September 2023Presented in 1966, the Committee's Herculean task was to examine almost all criminal and...Records and researchMen, mules and machines: The South East Asian battlespace of the Second World WarWednesday 6 September 2023Explore Operation Longcloth, carried out in occupied Burma (current day Myanmar)...Records and researchHistory’s Lionesses: The British Ladies Football Team and the beautiful game in 1895Wednesday 16 August 2023In 1895, the British Ladies Football Team was causing a stir, showing Victorian spectators...Records and researchRoy Sawh: From Where I StandMonday 14 August 2023In 1967, Sawh was put on trial under The Race Relations Act. Today, we... « 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 114 »