Search results found for: suffrage 100 Records and researchThe Peterloo MassacreMonday 29 October 2018This Friday sees the release of director Mike Leigh’s film ‘Peterloo’, which dramatises the events of...Behind the scenesDiscover James Cook in our BookshopTuesday 9 October 2018While the main focus this year has been on anniversaries associated with the First...Behind the scenesMarking time with diaries and calendarsWednesday 12 September 2018Are you a plan-ahead-with-military-precision type of person? Or more of a go-with-the-flow-embrace-your-inner-spontaneity sort? Just...Behind the scenesOur mothers’ storiesTuesday 27 March 2018During this Suffrage commemoration year there are increasing numbers of women’s stories appearing on the shelves...Behind the scenesMary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: extraordinary mother and daughterTuesday 30 January 2018The centenary commemoration of Women’s Suffrage has cast a spotlight of the lives of...Records and researchThe Inter-Departmental Committee on AbortionThursday 26 October 2017This blog contains details that some readers may find distressing. ‘If abortion were necessarily fatal...Behind the scenesResearching LGBT+ history at The National ArchivesTuesday 8 August 2017LGBT+ history is often spoken of as a 'hidden history', but this phrase can...Records and researchA Graphic War and our recordsMonday 12 December 2016'A Graphic War', an exciting display of sculptures by artist Ian Kirkpatrick, explores the...Behind the scenesHistory books – but not as you know them?Tuesday 6 December 2016I want to focus on the oddities, the strange little books that turn out...Archives and archivistsWhats on: January-March 2016Wednesday 6 January 2016We are proud to present a brand new programme of events to start off...Records and researchFirst World War conscription: An ethical battlegroundFriday 27 November 2015Just over a year into the First World War it became clear that more...Records and researchX-rays at the frontThursday 16 July 2015This blog series has explored many of the medical advancements the First World War... « 1 2 3 4 5 »