Tag: Britain Records and researchTo the Moon and back: an ‘epic voyage of discovery’Friday 19 July 2019In 1902, a French film, A Trip to the Moon, related the extraordinary journey...Records and researchAn undiplomatic diplomat: Morton Howell in CairoThursday 4 July 2019According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a diplomat is ‘a person who can deal...Records and researchAnglo-French archaeological squabbles in AfghanistanFriday 13 October 2017In Afghanistan, just like elsewhere in the world, the British and the French squabbled...Records and researchThe Nefertiti affair: the history of a repatriation debateFriday 16 September 2016Anglo-French rivalry, Germanophobia, two world wars and a flawless artefact. This is the background...Records and researchBattle of Madagascar 1845Monday 30 November 2015On 15 June 1845, three men-of-war (two French and one British) attacked the fort...Records and research‘A triumph of hope over evidence’Friday 6 March 2015Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo, Fashoda, Mers-el-Kebir… With the England-France rugby game drawing closer, these are...Records and research100 years ago today: Austria declares war on SerbiaMonday 28 July 2014On Tuesday 28 July, exactly one month after the assassination of the Archduke Franz...Records and research‘Entente Cordiale’, you said?Friday 25 July 2014As a French historian working at The National Archives, I am particularly interested in...Records and researchYou are cordially invited…Monday 28 April 2014This month sees the 110th anniversary of the ‘Entente Cordiale’. The agreement is officially...