Search results found for: women Records and researchHow Florence Nightingale David saved lives during the Blitz – with statisticsFriday 3 March 2023We explore the wartime work carried out by this pioneering statistician...Records and researchA love story that threatened the Commonwealth: Seretse Khama and Ruth WilliamsMonday 27 February 2023Discover the marriage that caused a diplomatic storm at the end of the 1940s....Records and research‘You don’t understand our love’: Lady Austin’s camp boysMonday 13 February 2023Discover London's queer parties of the 1930s, and how the police persecuted these spaces....Records and researchThe many misfortunes of an Irish merchant in Tenerife, 1740–1744Tuesday 31 January 2023Three remarkable letters written in May 1744 survive at The National Archives, which were...Records and researchRemembering the Gross-Rosen concentration campThursday 26 January 2023Friday 27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day. Together, we remember the millions of victims...Records and researchIntersectional queer lives on the 1921 CensusWednesday 11 January 2023Queer lives on the census are a minority, even more so when combined with...Records and researchWhat is a coheiress? Manors, moieties and English inheritance lawTuesday 10 January 2023As any Downton Abbey fan will know, the Dowager Countess of Grantham is a...Archives and archivistsQueer, there and everywhere: LGBTQ+ lives and the censusThursday 5 January 2023On Saturday 19 November, we held our event ‘Queer, There and Everywhere: LGBTQ+ lives...Behind the scenesDrama and archives: The Bulletin & Persons UnknownFriday 16 December 2022To support further public engagement with our collections, since 2016 we have been leading...Records and researchEscape to the country: A rural queer network in Kent and SussexThursday 15 December 2022This blog post is part of 20sStreets, in which we explore local history stories in...Records and researchThe story of HMT Empire Windrush (1930–1954)Thursday 15 December 2022Next June will mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush...Records and researchConstance Markievicz and the 1918 General ElectionWednesday 14 December 2022The 1918 General Election saw 17 women across the political spectrum stand for Parliament... « 1 … 6 7 8 9 10 … 39 »