Tag: Colonial office Records and researchThe early photography of Hong Kong at The National ArchivesThursday 19 October 2023Angela Cheung investigates a photo album called ‘Hongkong & Macao, The Typhoon of 22 Sept 1874’...Archives and archivistsLife and work in Jamaica in 1938: ‘Like seeds falling on a stony ground’Monday 12 June 2023Little is known about the writer, but their letter provides a powerful perspective on...Records and researchLegacies of Chinese indenture aboard the Empire Windrush in 1948Wednesday 31 May 2023As Migration and Citizenship researcher, I've been tracing the stories of passengers...Records and researchA love story that threatened the Commonwealth: Seretse Khama and Ruth WilliamsMonday 27 February 2023Discover the marriage that caused a diplomatic storm at the end of the 1940s....Archives and archivistsCataloguing CO 730: Opening up perspectives on early 20th-century IraqFriday 25 November 2022This November, a group of three volunteers have finished a cataloguing project working on...Records and researchGarveyism: A letter from the black working classThursday 25 August 2022Some years ago a letter in our collection from a group of black working-class...Records and researchCataloguing the Middle East Mandates: Restarting the projectThursday 8 July 2021Back in 2018, we planned a project to catalogue part of the Colonial Office...Records and researchW E B Du Bois: Letter to LondonThursday 29 October 2020In May 1921 W E B Du Bois wrote to Winston Churchill, then Secretary...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...Archives and archivists‘That Point of Land Opposite’: Kowloon and the founding of Hong KongMonday 18 June 2018Over the past couple of months, The National Archives has been putting online our...Records and researchResearching Colonial Office correspondence: plague in Gold CoastMonday 26 March 2018Researching Colonial Office records can be a slightly daunting prospect as the catalogue detail tends...Records and research‘I call it lunacy’: spelling squabbles within British governmentFriday 11 December 2015It is always comforting to realise we’re not the only ones dealing with trivial... 1 2 3 »