Category: Records and research 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…...Records and researchLGBT History Month: archives inspire creative writingThursday 4 February 2016Our annual Diversity Week culminated in a creative writing workshop, using facsimiles and originals...Records and research‘Budget filmmaking at its best’Tuesday 2 February 2016Pauline Loven reveals how one family's experience of the First World War became the...Records and researchDear Diary…Tuesday 2 February 2016For historians and archivists, diaries are treasure troves. We look at diaries kept as...Records and researchThe AIDS health campaignThursday 28 January 2016We look at how Margaret Thatcher’s administration grappled with the issue of educating the... « 1 … 69 70 71 72 73 … 115 »