Category: Records and research Records and researchWalter Tull: from a cobbler to a soldierWednesday 25 March 2015The story of a professional footballer who served as an infantry officer in the...Records and researchWitchcraft in Sheep StreetTuesday 24 March 2015On 3 December 1867 John Davis was sentenced at the Warwickshire Assizes to 18...Records and researchDelivering the goodsMonday 23 March 2015One notable milestone on the path to industrialised, ‘total’ war was the increased importance...Records and researchBullets and bacteriaThursday 19 March 2015What are you more scared of – a bullet or bacteria? To a soldier...Records and research‘Munitions, more munitions, always more munitions’Friday 13 March 2015One hundred years ago today, the Battle of Neuve Chapelle was in its closing...Records and researchDeath of Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, 11 March 1955Wednesday 11 March 2015Sometimes myths grow up around a subject and become so well known that they obscure...Records and research‘A man one could do business with’Wednesday 11 March 2015‘Perestroika’ and ‘glasnost’. These are two Russian words you may have heard at school...Records and research‘For Valour’: the Garhwalis and Neuve ChapelleTuesday 10 March 2015Joseph Joffre, commander in chief of the French forces on the Western Front in...Records and researchRemembering England’s Medieval JewsTuesday 10 March 2015Events on 27 January to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau...Records and research‘You buy war bonds – we do the rest’Monday 9 March 2015Today the UK Government is due to pay back the outstanding £1.9 billion from...Records and research‘A triumph of hope over evidence’Friday 6 March 2015Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo, Fashoda, Mers-el-Kebir… With the England-France rugby game drawing closer, these are...Records and research‘The tragedy of the shells’Thursday 5 March 2015This is the first of three blog posts that will look at the establishment... « 1 … 78 79 80 81 82 … 114 »