Tag: Family history Behind the scenesA journey into a father’s pastTuesday 16 August 2016I don’t usually devote the whole blog to a single book, but 'Dadland' by...Records and researchThe sound of leather on willowThursday 26 May 2016Today’s blog – the latest in our series of First World War Military Service...Technology and innovationMaking connections: tracing people through our collectionWednesday 6 April 2016Since February 2014, we’ve been investigating ways to reveal the connections that tell the...Records and researchCelebrating 350 years of historyFriday 6 November 2015On 7 November 2015 The London Gazette celebrates its 350 year anniversary as the...Archives and archivistsTea and testimony: sharing our storiesTuesday 20 October 2015Everybody is somebody from somewhere. Everybody carries a woven tapestry of stories within them...Records and researchThe First World War’s forgotten women: ANZAC girlThursday 27 August 2015‘I shall never forget the awful climb on hands & feet out of that...Archives and archivistsSurvey of new archive collections is LIVEThursday 25 June 2015Last month I posted a blog about Accessions to Repositories, our annual survey which collects information from...Records and researchGoing walkaboutSaturday 16 May 2015Steve McGann, our Explore Your Archive ambassador, uncovers the war record of his grandfather...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 researchResearching FWW through personal objects: soldiers’ testamentsTuesday 23 December 2014In the First World War many soldiers carried at least two books with them...Records and researchResearching FWW through personal objects: dog tagsTuesday 9 December 2014This blog is not a history of the ‘dog tag’, it is more of...Records and researchResearching FWW through personal objects: photographsTuesday 25 November 2014A way in to researching many individuals who saw service between 1914 and 1920,... « 1 2 3 4 5 »