Search results found for: africa Records and researchArchival strandsMonday 9 February 2015The context for a blog series about hair came about following an outreach workshop...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 researchReuniting the long lost Aero Girls (and boys)Monday 17 November 2014A year on from my initial search for the real-life Rowntree Aero Girls, as...Records and researchThe court martial of Rear-Admiral TroubridgeWednesday 5 November 2014From 5-9 November 1914, Rear-Admiral Ernest Charles Troubridge stood trial for: ‘from negligence or...Behind the scenesPromoting research libraries in LondonWednesday 8 October 2014Every six months or so I represent The National Archives at a meeting of...Records and researchThe Hollywood battalionTuesday 7 October 2014It’s a line up that would make any film an instant Hollywood blockbuster. In...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...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...Behind the scenesThe First World War: a global viewFriday 1 August 2014The First World War. What images spring to mind when you read those four...Records and researchTales from the Special Operations Executive: Operation Remorse, part twoThursday 10 July 2014This is my second blog post on Operation Remorse, the secret Second World War operation that earned... « 1 … 11 12 13 14 15 16 »