Category: Records and research Records and researchMerchant Navy shipwrecks in the First World WarFriday 17 February 2017Battles and diplomacy tend to dominate the narrative of the war, but little of...Records and researchDiscover local history in our libraryFriday 17 February 2017The National Archives' library has a fine collection of local history books - and...Records and researchLoyalty and dissent in the First World WarThursday 16 February 2017I have become increasingly fascinated and intrigued – as are many others - by...Records and researchClare Hollingworth: ‘A clever English journalist’Wednesday 15 February 2017War correspondent Clare Hollingworth filed the scoop of the century: the beginning of the...Records and researchAntiquity versus modernity? Philae and the Aswan DamWednesday 8 February 2017The rescue of the temples of Philae in the 1970s is fairly well documented,...Records and researchLesney toys: they fit inside a matchboxMonday 6 February 2017From meeting in a virtually derelict pub to an Award for Industry, explore the...Records and research1717 and the invasion that never wasThursday 2 February 2017300 years ago, Swedish ambassadors attempted to foment an invasion plan and embark a...Records and researchScottish charters and the emergence of governmentTuesday 31 January 2017Tracing the emergence of royal government in medieval Scotland is a difficult task: the...Records and researchWhat happened to refugees and Displaced Persons after the Holocaust?Friday 27 January 2017What happened to the millions of people liberated from camps and ghettos across Nazi-occupied...Records and researchBritish diplomats on Castro, 1959-1963: in the global spotlightMonday 23 January 2017From 1959, scrutiny of Castro intensified. Reports sent back to the Foreign Office included...Records and researchChinese Labour Corps on the Western FrontWednesday 18 January 2017As the First World War progressed, the need for more manpower became acutely problematic…......Records and researchYoung, British and black: opposing race discriminationTuesday 10 January 2017On 15 September 1973 Lorne Horsford was refused entry to the Mecca Palais dance hall…... « 1 … 59 60 61 62 63 … 114 »