Category: Records and research 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...Archives and archivistsSurvey of new archive collections is LIVEThursday 25 June 2015Last month I posted a blog about Accessions to Repositories, our annual survey which collects information from...Records and researchIsaac Chetham: From ‘Scum of the Earth’ to Commissioned Officer in Wellington’s ArmyWednesday 24 June 2015The social order of late 18th and early 19th century Britain ordained that there...Records and research‘I trust it will be the last battle we shall any of us see’: remembering Waterloo, 200 years onThursday 18 June 2015In the middle of the First World War centenary period we find ourselves marking...Records and researchA hornet against a giantWednesday 17 June 2015Whilst looking in the war diary of the 4th General Hospital in Versailles (WO...Records and researchCommemorating the 800th anniversary of the Magna CartaMonday 15 June 2015Throughout 2015 hundreds of events are being held around the world to commemorate the...Records and researchCelebrating democracy for International Archives DayTuesday 9 June 2015For International Archives Day, I asked colleagues from across The National Archives to nominate...Records and researchPentrich: from seditions to petitionsTuesday 9 June 2015Today (and tomorrow morning) mark the 198th anniversary of the Pentrich Rising in 1817....Records and researchCelebrities, a former Prime Minister and the WorkhouseFriday 5 June 2015You may have seen the recent BBC1 television programme, 24 Hours in the Past,...Records and researchVolunteers and villains: the HO 17 cataloguing projectTuesday 2 June 2015It is Volunteers’ Week, an annual celebration of the wonderful contribution made by millions...Archives and archivistsA lock of loveMonday 1 June 2015Hair has long been used as a memento, a physical means of remembrance, of... « 1 … 76 77 78 79 80 … 114 »