Category: Records and research Records and researchHow Florence Nightingale David saved lives during the Blitz – with statisticsFriday 3 March 2023We explore the wartime work carried out by this pioneering statistician...Records and research‘Excessive severity’: Treason and the Grenadian Rebellion of 1795Thursday 2 March 2023In this blog, curator Chris Day looks at how treason was used, and misused,...Records and researchA love story that threatened the Commonwealth: Seretse Khama and Ruth WilliamsMonday 27 February 2023Discover the marriage that caused a diplomatic storm at the end of the 1940s....Records and researchAccroaching royal power in 1380s London: The downfall of Nicholas BrembreMonday 20 February 2023Explore the downfall of a key figure of 1380s London, a period characterised by...Records and researchThe Bag of SecretsThursday 16 February 2023What is the 'Bag of Secrets' and how did it come to exist?...Records and research‘You don’t understand our love’: Lady Austin’s camp boysMonday 13 February 2023Discover London's queer parties of the 1930s, and how the police persecuted these spaces....Records and researchTreason against the state: America declares independenceFriday 3 February 2023Explore how and why America declared independence from Great Britain, and where treason fits...Records and researchThe many misfortunes of an Irish merchant in Tenerife, 1740–1744Tuesday 31 January 2023Three remarkable letters written in May 1744 survive at The National Archives, which were...Records and researchTreason against the state: The execution of Charles IMonday 30 January 2023Levying war against the Crown was one of the key treasonable offences defined by...Records and researchRemembering the Gross-Rosen concentration campThursday 26 January 2023Friday 27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day. Together, we remember the millions of victims...Records and researchThe Royal Vauxhall Tavern: RaidedTuesday 24 January 2023In January 1987 the iconic LGBTQ+ bar and drag venue, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern...Records and researchOut on the street: Investigating fact or fictionFriday 20 January 2023Jane Golding from the British Association for Local History explores how the 1921 census... « 1 … 6 7 8 9 10 … 114 »