Tag: Colonial office 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...Records and researchFiles on film: Petitions for equalityThursday 4 December 2014Have you ever imagined where Siegfried Sassoon was sitting while writing his poems? Or...Records and researchThe travelling photographer: Emil Otto HoppéTuesday 6 May 2014Emil Otto Hoppé (1878–1972) is my kind of photographer. He was incredibly prolific, producing...Records and researchLooking back through a lens on Commonwealth DayMonday 10 March 2014Welcome to the first in a series of blogs for the Caribbean though a lens... 1 2 »
