Tag: Africa Records and researchThe Detached Papers: New records on the transatlantic slave trade on DiscoveryWednesday 13 November 2024We have released over 8,000 new catalogue descriptions of documents related to the transatlantic...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 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 researchThe liberation struggle in the Congo and the strange death of Patrice LumumbaWednesday 23 October 2019Following the end of the Second World War, the African continent underwent rapid decolonization...Records and researchSpy, scoundrel and scholar: Leo Frobenius’ mission to AbyssiniaWednesday 14 November 2018It is a rare treat in any archive to be able to look at...Records and researchFrom Tripoli to TimbuktuThursday 5 April 2018One hundred and ninety years ago, in April 1828, French explorer René Caillé became...Records and researchThe Cameroons campaignFriday 19 February 2016The German Cameroons was the final German colony to fall in West Africa during the First...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 researchMr Johnston’s imaginationWednesday 2 January 2013Some of The National Archives’ most interesting maps are not kept as separate flat,...Behind the scenesUser participation: volunteering at The National ArchivesTuesday 18 September 2012Like many others I have spent the summer in awe at the courage and...Records and researchLooking back through a lensFriday 22 June 2012As many of you may know, last year The National Archives undertook a project,...