Category: Records and research Records and researchThe Gunpowder and Orange Juice PlotFriday 3 November 2017This blog contains spoilers for BBC One’s ‘Gunpowder’ series. One of the most satisfying...Archives and archivistsRamsay MacDonald’s holiday snaps and other photographsThursday 2 November 2017I have been looking at some of the photographic and visual information held in...Records and researchAnglo-Papal relations and Henry VIII’s break with RomeWednesday 1 November 2017Due to its longevity and impact at home and abroad, Henry VIII’s break with...Records and researchDiscover the Women’s Suffrage movement through our recordsTuesday 31 October 2017Friday 18 May 2018, 18:30 Suffrage 100 – Archives at night: Law breakers, law...Records and researchThe civil servant’s tale: Geoffrey Chaucer in the archivesMonday 30 October 2017When you think of Geoffrey Chaucer, what words or themes do you think of? Words like...Records and researchEngland’s freedom, soldiers’ rights: Civil War army disputesFriday 27 October 2017Three hundred and seventy years ago this autumn, among the dying embers of bloody...Records and researchThe Inter-Departmental Committee on AbortionThursday 26 October 2017This blog contains details that some readers may find distressing. ‘If abortion were necessarily fatal...Behind the scenesCrime in the archivesWednesday 25 October 2017Following the success of our ‘Behind the scenes’ repository tours we are currently running...Records and research500 years of Reformation: England and GermanyTuesday 24 October 20172017 marks the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation in Europe,...Records and researchWhat Court of Chivalry records reveal about 14th century soldiersMonday 23 October 2017 “The highest and most sovereign things a knight ought to guard in defence...Records and research‘The black man and his party’: William Cuffey, Chartist leaderThursday 19 October 2017Black History Month offers an opportunity to highlight the significant but often overlooked contribution...Records and researchBunga bunga! The great Edwardian Dreadnought hoaxMonday 16 October 2017On the late afternoon of 7 February 1910, four men in long robes, accompanied by... « 1 … 52 53 54 55 56 … 114 »