Category: Records and research Records and researchTogoland and the First World WarTuesday 15 December 2015This post looks at the conflict in Togoland during the First World War, and...Records and research‘I call it lunacy’: spelling squabbles within British governmentFriday 11 December 2015It is always comforting to realise we’re not the only ones dealing with trivial...Records and researchShips, trains, submarines and the element of surpriseThursday 10 December 2015Having worked at The National Archives for some time now, I have come to realise...Archives and archivistsWriting letters, making boxes: creative responses to archivesWednesday 9 December 2015When Indian troops first arrived in France from the end of September 1914, they...Records and researchWhat’s in a name?Wednesday 2 December 2015Working on the Traces through Time project has meant spending many months staring at...Records and researchBattle of Madagascar 1845Monday 30 November 2015On 15 June 1845, three men-of-war (two French and one British) attacked the fort...Records and researchFirst World War conscription: An ethical battlegroundFriday 27 November 2015Just over a year into the First World War it became clear that more...Records and researchHow to escape from an embassyThursday 26 November 2015The counter-intuitive thing about being trapped in an embassy is that everyone involved always...Records and researchWhat was rail travel like in 1830?Tuesday 24 November 2015Today we tend to take the railways for granted. If we talk about them...Records and research‘Death by hanging’: the Nuremberg TrialsFriday 20 November 2015‘Nicht schuldig.’ (Not guilty.) These two German words pronounced somewhat defiantly, and almost flippantly,...Records and researchCoventry ‘Can Take It’: surviving the BlitzFriday 13 November 2015Shortly before the bombing raid on Coventry in October 1940, the film London Can...Records and researchSouthern Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI)Wednesday 11 November 2015On 11 November 1965, Southern Rhodesia’s prime minister, Ian Smith, unilaterally declared his territory’s... « 1 … 71 72 73 74 75 … 115 »