Search results found for: africa Records and researchResearching Africa at The National ArchivesThursday 22 October 2020In the course of Britain’s long-term involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and its...Records and researchThe Forgotten Army: West African Troops in Burma, 1945Wednesday 12 August 2020They have been called the ‘Forgotten Army’ – the British Fourteenth Army who, in...Records and researchAfrican Princess in Guy’s: The story of Princess Adenrele AdemolaWednesday 13 May 2020From Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent to Princess Alice of Greece, princess nurses have...Records and researchRichmond Park’s South African military hospitalTuesday 3 October 2017In August 1914, the Union of South Africa joined Britain and its allies in...Records and researchSouth Africa and the SommeMonday 18 July 2016To mark the centenary of the Somme Offensive we will be posting a series...Records and researchCrossing continents: textile designs for the West African marketWednesday 2 March 2016A closer look at some fresh and vibrant textile designs intended for export to...Records and researchAfrican hairMonday 13 July 2015During my search for traces of hair in the archives, one of the things...Records and researchIt’s only a game? Nothing could be further from the truthFriday 6 August 2021Looking at historical records gives us the opportunity to see how different things were...Records and researchA Magna Carta for refugeesWednesday 28 July 2021The 28th of July 2021 marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations’ 1951...Records and researchCataloguing the Middle East Mandates: Restarting the projectThursday 8 July 2021Back in 2018, we planned a project to catalogue part of the Colonial Office...Records and researchJourneying: Indian Indenture – working therapeutically to address archival silencesFriday 11 June 2021In October 1884, troops opened fire on a procession of Indians in Trinidad that...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... 1 2 3 … 12 »
