Category: Records and research Records and researchA coronation to remember: the price of crowning VictoriaWednesday 15 July 2015Last week two students, Bushra and Joshua, visited The National Archives for their Lord...Records and researchWhen life imitates art: ‘Come friendly bombs…’Monday 13 July 2015Most people, especially its long suffering residents, are familiar with the John Betjeman poem...Records and researchThe personal and professional life of Barbara HepworthFriday 10 July 2015Archives are integral to our understanding of artists and their work. We can delve...Records and researchSinking the German cruiser KonigsbergThursday 9 July 2015At the outbreak of war, the SMS Konigsberg a cruiser in Admiral von Spey’s...Records and researchLike Barbara Hepworth? Think #hepworthQAWednesday 8 July 2015Like Barbara Hepworth’s work? Visited the exhibition Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World...Records and researchJames Hawkins’ daring escapes – a convict who refused to accept his sentenceTuesday 7 July 2015Last month I wrote a blog introducing the work being done by a team...Archives and archivistsKeeper’s Gallery: Newfoundland – Empire in the First World WarTuesday 7 July 2015Our Keeper’s Gallery currently features a display highlighting Newfoundland during the First World War....Archives and archivistsSouth Asia and the First World WarFriday 3 July 2015The National Archives outreach team spent an extraordinary morning at Lampton School in a...Records and researchCollar the lot! Britain’s policy of internment during the Second World WarThursday 2 July 2015Seventy-five years ago today on 2 July 1940, the SS Arandora Star, a British...Records and researchAerial photography and the First World WarTuesday 30 June 2015Although military usage of balloons dated back over a century, the gleaning of intelligence...Records and researchIndexing the Merchant Navy Crew Lists and AgreementsMonday 29 June 2015Within the documents held at The National Archives are rich, inter-governmental department conversations –...Records and research‘A state of affairs that fills me with grave disquiet and distress’Friday 26 June 2015The destruction of antiquities and ancient monuments has, sadly, been making the headlines rather... « 1 … 75 76 77 78 79 … 114 »