Tag: Foreign office Records and researchExamining the Foreign Office’s ‘Slave Trade Department’ records: Part twoTuesday 4 April 2023Examine the role slavery played in the regional diplomacy of the Indian Ocean in...Records and researchExamining the Foreign Office’s ‘Slave Trade Department’ recordsFriday 24 March 2023This blog examines what these records can tell us about the experiences of the...Records and researchLady Hester Stanhope: Queen of the DesertMonday 26 September 2022Lady Hester Stanhope was born in 1776. She was the niece of William Pitt...Records and research100 years ago: ‘Egypt is declared to be an independent sovereign State’Thursday 17 March 2022One hundred years ago, on 28 February 1922, Edmund Allenby, the British High-Commissioner in...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 archivistsA world of wine and taxesThursday 23 May 2019Sparkling wines produced in the United Kingdom today win international awards, and we import...Records and researchOne man’s vision: Ernest Bevin and the creation of NATOThursday 4 April 20194 April 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the signing of the treaty that brought...Records and researchBehind the scenes of organising an exhibition: Modern Brazilian Paintings (1944)Friday 13 July 2018Recently, the Sala Brasil Arts Centre at the Embassy of Brazil hosted the exhibition ‘The...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 research‘Fighting like angry sheep’: Wendell Phillips in the GulfTuesday 29 May 2018Wendell Philipps has often been described by the press as ‘America’s Lawrence of Arabia’,...Records and researchFrom Persia to Iran, via InglistanThursday 15 June 2017In 1933, the Persians asked governments around the world to make slight adjustments to...Records and researchIn recognition of suffering: compensating victims of Nazi persecutionTuesday 21 March 2017These files offer an insight into the Anglo-German compensation agreement but also unlock personal... 1 2 »
