Category: Records and research Behind the scenesProtecting our (and your!) collectionTuesday 20 January 2015Polyester or polyethylene envelopes, rather than other plastics such as polyvinylchloride (PVC), are used...Behind the scenesKeeper’s Gallery: 50th anniversary of Churchill’s deathTuesday 20 January 2015Our Keeper’s Gallery currently features a display to mark the 50th anniversary of Sir...Records and researchMedical units in the First World WarFriday 16 January 2015This year, the focus of The National Archives’ First World War Centenary programme shifts to...Records and researchThe Carlisle Experiment – limiting alcohol in wartimeThursday 15 January 2015One of the early casualties of the First World War was, in many respects,...Records and researchIllustrating historyMonday 12 January 2015As a repository for records of central government, you may not expect to find...Records and researchFiles from 1985/86: football, fire and hooliganismTuesday 30 December 2014The mid-1980s are often characterised as a period of success, excess and the shoulder-padded...Records and researchMy grandfather and the Cuxhaven RaidThursday 25 December 2014Christmas Day 1914 was the day of the Cuxhaven Raid, when the British Royal...Records and researchResearching FWW through personal objects: soldiers’ testamentsTuesday 23 December 2014In the First World War many soldiers carried at least two books with them...Records and researchYour disco needs youFriday 19 December 2014The National Archives was in the grip of the 1970s when I first joined...Records and researchA ‘special relationship’?Tuesday 16 December 2014When looking at British history in the twentieth century strong Anglo-American ties appear to...Records and research‘German havoc in English homes’Tuesday 16 December 2014Our tendency to view the First World War through the prism of the Western...Records and researchMy Tommy’s War: Construction and destruction with the Royal EngineersFriday 12 December 2014Born in Newport, South Wales, on 16 June, 1894, William Alfred Bale was the... « 1 … 81 82 83 84 85 … 115 »