Search results found for: africa Records and research‘A vast window display’: The British Empire Exhibition of 1924-5Tuesday 22 February 2022In 1924 an exhibition was held at Wembley Park in London, which aimed to...Records and researchImagining Empire in the 1920s: Posters of the Empire Marketing BoardTuesday 15 February 2022If you found yourself walking on Charing Cross Road on New Year’s Day in...Records and researchThe Battles of Tobruk, 1941-42 (Part two)Monday 31 January 2022As the siege came to an end the hospital ship Gloucestershire began making trips...Records and researchThe Battles of Tobruk, 1941-42 (Part one)Friday 21 January 2022Tobruk, a small town and military base in Libya, was the scene of some...Records and researchResearching lives at the Royal Hospital Chelsea for the Scarlets and Blues project (Part 2)Thursday 2 December 2021In this second blog exploring what kind of research might be undertaken using the...Records and researchAbbreviation and identification: Cataloguing war diaries 1939-46Thursday 25 November 2021Several years ago, a project began to improve the listing of the war diaries,...Archives and archivistsCatalogue Week 2021: Day ThreeWednesday 24 November 2021There are four contributions on day three of Catalogue Week 2021. Philippa Hellawell discusses...Records and researchConnecting the enslaved at Cape Coast Castle to Royal Navy Captains’ letters 1793-1815Wednesday 24 November 2021I started volunteering at The National Archives in September 2018 as part of an...Archives and archivistsCatalogue Week 2021: Day OneMonday 22 November 2021Traditionally, the final week of November marks our annual Catalogue Day event here at...Records and research20sPeople: ‘A Stranger in a Strange Place’Tuesday 9 November 2021‘A Stranger in a Strange Place’ follows on from ‘Once British Always British’, two...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 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... « 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 … 16 »