Tag: France Records and researchDigitising little treasures – Part 2: The Edouard LineThursday 25 June 2020Following a 1,500km bicycle journey and two weeks at sea, Egbert was finally back...Records and researchDigitising little treasures – Part 1: Egbert Rizzo and the making of an SOE AgentWednesday 24 June 2020As a Project Conservator in the Digitisation Team, I am used to hundreds of...Records and research‘France has lost a battle! But France hasn’t lost the war!’Monday 22 June 202080 years ago, on 18 June 1940, powerful words were pronounced on the BBC,...Records and researchEscape and evade: Breaking out of Occupied Europe in 1940Friday 12 June 2020Having located a map on a desk of a house in Dieppe, northern France,...Records and researchThe 600th anniversary of the Treaty of TroyesThursday 21 May 202021 May 2020 marks the 600th anniversary of the Treaty of Troyes, a peace...Records and researchThe Lobster WarThursday 21 February 2019Diving deep in the archive, you can find some stories which really stand out....Records and researchA snowball fight in ConstantinopleWednesday 19 December 2018It looks as though, yet again, there is no prospect of a white Christmas...Records and researchAnglo-French archaeological squabbles in AfghanistanFriday 13 October 2017In Afghanistan, just like elsewhere in the world, the British and the French squabbled...Records and researchThe Nefertiti affair: the history of a repatriation debateFriday 16 September 2016Anglo-French rivalry, Germanophobia, two world wars and a flawless artefact. This is the background...Records and research‘A Most Lamented Princesse’: an English princess at VersaillesThursday 11 August 2016Elements of the depiction of Henriette’s death in the TV series Versailles have been...Records and researchBattle of Madagascar 1845Monday 30 November 2015On 15 June 1845, three men-of-war (two French and one British) attacked the fort...Records and research‘A triumph of hope over evidence’Friday 6 March 2015Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo, Fashoda, Mers-el-Kebir… With the England-France rugby game drawing closer, these are... 1 2 »