Tag: 19th century Records and researchNarrating ephemeral archival presence: LGBTQ+ histories and Colonial Office recordsWednesday 12 February 2025PhD student Garfield Campbell looks at the challenge of tracing LGBTQ+ lives in colonial...Records and researchVisualising naval networks in the Admiralty China Station recordsMonday 20 January 2025Explore the communication networks of the British Royal Navy from China in the 19th...Records and researchTracing merchant seamen in the 19th centuryTuesday 17 September 2024Thanks to our offsite volunteers it's now easier to research 19th century life at...Records and researchAaron Graham and the prison hulks of the early 19th centuryWednesday 1 November 2023Volunteer Carol Kellas looks at how one man improved the lives of prisoners on...Records and researchPatently obvious: Tracing the inventions of William Henry Fox Talbot, photography pioneerThursday 1 June 2023We demonstrate how you can look at historical inventions recorded in documents at The...Records and researchExamining the Foreign Office’s ‘Slave Trade Department’ records: Part twoTuesday 4 April 2023Examine the role slavery played in the regional diplomacy of the Indian Ocean in...Records and researchExamining the Foreign Office’s ‘Slave Trade Department’ recordsFriday 24 March 2023This blog examines what these records can tell us about the experiences of the...Records and researchCommunal violence in 1808 and the role of the magistratesWednesday 5 October 2022various parts of England in 1808 which highlight the role of magistrates in dealing...Records and researchLady Hester Stanhope: Queen of the DesertMonday 26 September 2022Lady Hester Stanhope was born in 1776. She was the niece of William Pitt...Records and researchScientific professionals within the Royal Naval Service (part 2)Friday 14 May 2021So far (in my previous post), we have seen the influence of scientific reforms...Records and researchScientific professionals within the Royal Naval Service (part 1)Thursday 13 May 2021In the first half of 19th century, science was mostly about observing and collecting....Archives and archivistsChancery Division of the High Court: Legal records of the 1870sThursday 26 November 2020As an archivist working at The National Archives, the first pandemic lockdown generated the... 1 2 »