Category: Records and research 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...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... « 1 … 76 77 78 79 80 … 115 »