Tag: Community Records and researchHow to research the history of a place: where to startWednesday 8 May 2024Want to find out more about a particular place's past? Beginning can be tricky....Archives and archivistsA walking tour: Inspiring creative wellbeingFriday 24 June 2022The estate planners for the Dover House Estate embraced the ideas of the Garden...Archives and archivistsWhat makes a house a home?Wednesday 4 August 2021Collaboration is key to delivering projects in community settings. The National Archives’ Outreach team...Behind the scenesSigned, sealed and delivered’: Online learning with a SEND audienceMonday 31 May 2021Since January this year, Outreach at The National Archives have engaged with a vulnerable...Archives and archivistsConnecting through Collections: Dementia activists meet the new generationWednesday 19 May 2021Dementia, which affects many of us during our lifetime, is a subject clouded by...Behind the scenesFive Photos: Exploring a mindful archiveMonday 8 February 2021How useful are archives right now? I don’t mean to be provocative. Like many...Archives and archivistsMind your manors: Leicestershire and Rutland register now onlineMonday 21 October 2019At the beginning of August 2019, the data from Leicestershire and Rutland’s manorial project...Archives and archivists‘This is our park’: A community well-being projectFriday 4 October 2019‘This is our park’ is a unique collaboration between The National Archives, Wandsworth Heritage...Archives and archivistsBack in Battersea: a creative reminiscence projectTuesday 9 April 2019In the course of a few afternoons, I learned so much about the lives...Records and research100neHundred: dancing to remember the fight for the voteThursday 19 July 2018Emily Wilding Davison is one of the most remembered figures of the women’s suffrage...Behind the scenesOne in six: the South Asian contribution to the First World WarThursday 14 May 2015It’s not widely known that an astonishing one in every six people fighting under British...Records and researchThe Carlisle Experiment – limiting alcohol in wartimeThursday 15 January 2015One of the early casualties of the First World War was, in many respects,... 1 2 »