Tag: Art Behind the scenesHome comforts: My Home and our partnership with Arts in Care HomesMonday 23 September 2024What does home mean to you? What might it mean to somebody else? And...Behind the scenesThe Golden Thread with Michelle RodriguesWednesday 4 September 2024Iqbal Singh and Dr Chloe Lee caught up with Michelle to find out how...Behind the scenesAn interview with artist Ngadi SmartTuesday 12 September 2023We hear from Sierra Leonean artist Ngadi Smart, whose artwork, Windrush Stories is on...Records and researchThe amazing story behind ‘The Duke’Thursday 21 April 2022Some of you may have had the opportunity to see the recently released film,...Records and research‘Many adventures!’ British archivists in Italy during the Second World WarThursday 12 November 2020You may have heard of, or seen, George Clooney’s ‘The Monuments Men’ film. It...Behind the scenesPictures of the past: Cataloguing COPY 1 paintings and drawingsWednesday 3 June 2020To celebrate National Volunteers’ Week, today we focus our attention on a project to improve...Behind the scenesResearching while the archive is closed: Visual collectionsThursday 9 April 2020While The National Archives is closed, nobody can research using original documents. This, of...Archives and archivistsHidden messages in vintage paintingsWednesday 8 April 2020I expect we have all looked at old paintings in country houses or galleries,...Records and researchTrade marks: making their markWednesday 23 January 2019For hundreds of years, traders have put their particular marks or symbols on their...Behind the scenesOn the hook: hanging artworks in our repositoriesTuesday 8 January 2019In March 2016, The National Archives installed three double-sided bays of mesh-panelled, mobile art racking...Records and researchBehind the scenes of organising an exhibition: Modern Brazilian Paintings (1944)Friday 13 July 2018Recently, the Sala Brasil Arts Centre at the Embassy of Brazil hosted the exhibition ‘The...Archives and archivistsBringing archives into art: Drawing the Bombay PlagueThursday 23 November 2017Today we are celebrating all things #archivescience by looking a special commission for Wellcome... 1 2 3 »