Category: Records and research 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...Records and research150 years of the Welsh colony in PatagoniaThursday 28 May 2015This week, 150 years ago in 1865, a Welsh speaking colony called in Welsh...Records and researchThe Centenary of the Quintinshill Rail DisasterFriday 22 May 2015One hundred years ago, on 22 May 1915, the UK witnessed its worst ever... « 1 … 76 77 78 79 80 … 114 »