Category: Records and research Records and researchPost-war Thailand and the onset of the Cold War in Southeast AsiaWednesday 13 December 2017This year marks the 70th anniversary of a military coup that occurred during the...Records and researchDisabled British Army Great War veterans, 1918-1939Tuesday 12 December 2017With 2018 marking the centenary of the Armistice, a host of public and cultural...Records and research‘Deaf and dumb’: disabled Victorian civil servantsFriday 8 December 2017The National Archives holds detailed records of people in some areas of public service...Records and researchThe Beveridge Report and the foundations of the Welfare StateThursday 7 December 2017‘Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for...Records and researchDo you have a suffrage ancestor?Wednesday 6 December 2017On 6 February 1918, the Representation of the People Act received royal assent, enfranchising approximately...Records and researchMedieval army pensioners: the Poor Knights of WindsorFriday 1 December 2017One of our most interesting collections for the study of military and family history is...Records and researchDomestic duties only? WRNS and the First World WarWednesday 29 November 2017The Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was founded in November 1917. The intention was...Records and researchSex, Spies and another Scandal: the other Profumo affairTuesday 28 November 2017At the height of the Profumo affair, the greatest British political scandal of the...Records and researchThe civil servant’s tale: Geoffrey Chaucer in the archives (Part two)Monday 27 November 2017In the first of this series of blogs, I looked into the early life...Archives and archivistsBringing archives into art: Drawing the Bombay PlagueThursday 23 November 2017Today we are celebrating all things #archivescience by looking a special commission for Wellcome...Records and researchDiamond cutting for disabled servicemenWednesday 22 November 2017Over 1 million British men were disabled by disease or injury during the First...Archives and archivistsFancy a Georgian bake off? Try some 18th century treatsTuesday 21 November 2017Next time you try something new for dinner, why not consider something from our... « 1 … 51 52 53 54 55 … 114 »