Category: Records and research Records and researchThe Hollywood battalionTuesday 7 October 2014It’s a line up that would make any film an instant Hollywood blockbuster. In...Behind the scenesReflections on glossFriday 3 October 2014Our project on dust is now approaching the half-way point. The project, which started...Records and researchBlack History Month – the movement for black civil rights in BritainThursday 2 October 2014I recently booked to see the successful musical the Scottsboro Boys, a theatre adaptation...Behind the scenesBack to school: pre-FWW registers onlineThursday 25 September 2014On Monday the first tranche of school registers and log books held by nearly...Archives and archivistsThe ‘live bait squadron’Monday 22 September 2014In the space of little over an hour on the morning of 22 September 1914,...Records and research‘Our Special Agent’: ‘Fifi’ and the Special Operations ExecutiveWednesday 17 September 2014It’s an age-old question: just what should you say to a beautiful woman? The...Behind the scenesKeeper’s Gallery: registered designsTuesday 16 September 2014Our Keeper’s Gallery currently features a display of the registered design series held here...Records and researchMaps: telling their untold storiesThursday 11 September 2014Today sees the publication of our new book, Maps: their untold stories. In this...Records and researchSentenced to death: Private Thomas James HighgateMonday 8 September 2014‘I have lost my army, and I mean to get out of it’ (WO...Records and researchMy Tommy’s War: An Eastender in the Lancers (part two)Friday 5 September 2014It has been almost two years since we launched our My Tommy’s War blog...Records and researchTales from the Special Operations Executive: Operation Remorse, part threeWednesday 3 September 2014This is my third blog post on Operation Remorse, the secret Second World War...Records and researchReburial of King Richard IIIFriday 29 August 2014Many people will have been amazed at the depth of feeling generated on both... « 1 … 85 86 87 88 89 … 115 »