Tag: Cold war Records and research‘A man one could do business with’Wednesday 11 March 2015‘Perestroika’ and ‘glasnost’. These are two Russian words you may have heard at school...Records and researchWhen ‘Ivan the terrible’ visited BritainFriday 28 February 2014The search for a person within The National Archives can sometimes yield a line...Records and researchDeath of JFK viewed through British eyesFriday 22 November 2013It is perhaps no exaggeration to say that few historical events have been the...Records and researchNew files from 1983 – Thatcher meets SolzhenitsynThursday 1 August 2013As we move towards a 20 year disclosure of public records, today we mark...Records and researchJames Bond, the Cold War diaries and spying in KewFriday 26 October 2012It’s almost impossible to separate in the popular imagination the real world of espionage...Records and researchHobsbawm, UNESCO, and ‘notorious’ CommunistsFriday 12 October 2012The recent passing of the eminent historian Professor Eric Hobsbawm precipitated a flurry of... « 1 2 3