Category: Records and research Records and researchCrossing continents: textile designs for the West African marketWednesday 2 March 2016A closer look at some fresh and vibrant textile designs intended for export to...Records and researchFirst World War airship attacksFriday 26 February 2016Richard Elvin explores the impact of Zeppelin attacks in the First World War …...Records and researchThe ‘Robin Jackman affair’: apartheid and international cricketFriday 26 February 2016The England cricket team’s 1981 tour of the West Indies was put in jeopardy...Records and researchPride of Place: putting LGBT history on the mapThursday 25 February 2016We look at public and domestic spaces LGBT people have created for themselves…...Records and research‘The Records of this Nation’Tuesday 23 February 2016Why do people keep records? We look at a 17th century answer and compare...Records and researchThe Cameroons campaignFriday 19 February 2016The German Cameroons was the final German colony to fall in West Africa during the First...Records and researchBattle babiesThursday 18 February 2016Verdun, Vimy Ridge and Heligoland... just some of the unusual names given to children...Records and research‘To share in his fate’: petitioning to join those transported overseasTuesday 16 February 2016We explore petitions from women who wanted to join their husbands in exile…...Records and researchBombing with bank notesMonday 15 February 2016The Nazi war machine printed millions of pounds of forged British bank notes ...Behind the scenesVibrant Venice in the archivesThursday 11 February 2016We explore the conservation of a selection of Venetian illuminated manuscripts:…...Records and research‘Maimed and not fit for manual labour’?Tuesday 9 February 2016Employment schemes, employment bureaux within hospitals and training made available form a lens through...Behind the scenes‘A trickle of Pharaonic valuables’Friday 5 February 2016We look behind the scenes of the British Museum's Tutankhamun exhibition in 1972…... « 1 … 68 69 70 71 72 … 114 »