Search results found for: First World War Records and researchLeonard Orpin: A tale of two warsThursday 11 November 2021Since 2017 a team of volunteers at The National Archives has been devoting its...Records and researchForgotten victims of war: Black merchant seamen interned in the Second World WarFriday 29 October 2021To mark the end of Black History Month I would like to share with...Records and researchThe Hoefle Telegram in the new Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War MuseumMonday 25 October 2021After almost six years in the making, Imperial War Museums (IWM) London opened new...Records and researchThe food here is terrible: Accounts of Merchant Seamen interned in the Second World WarSunday 6 June 2021The series BT 373 Merchant Seamen Prisoner of War Records, Second World War, comprises...Records and researchHigh morals and low lifes: British cinema and the government after World War TwoTuesday 18 May 2021From papers and photographs to posters and maps, The National Archives’ collection contains over...Records and researchEthel Gordon Fenwick: The story of the first State Registered NurseWednesday 12 May 2021On 23 December 1919, after decades of campaigning, the Nurses Registration Act was passed,...Records and researchThe Ghost of Christmas past? St Thomas Becket and Edwardian CanterburyTuesday 29 December 2020Everyone loves a ghost story at Christmas, right? One might even say they represent...Records and research‘Many adventures!’ British archivists in Italy during the Second World WarThursday 12 November 2020You may have heard of, or seen, George Clooney’s ‘The Monuments Men’ film. It...Records and researchPlanning the burial of the Unknown WarriorThursday 5 November 2020On Friday 15 October 1920, a mere 27 days before Armistice Day, the British...Records and researchPublicising the Battle of Britain: Creative publishing in the Second World WarTuesday 22 September 2020The Battle of Britain occupies a powerful place in the British cultural memory of...Records and researchSoviet-Japan and the termination of the Second World WarWednesday 2 September 202075 years ago today, in the morning of Sunday 2 September 1945, the Japanese...Records and researchAnimal Farm: The cartoon strip and the Cold WarMonday 17 August 2020George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, first published on this day 75 years ago in 1945,... « 1 … 5 6 7 8 9 … 71 »