Tag: Germany Records and research‘Decided to cancel at last minute to save snarl from Uncle Joe’: How VE Day became VE DayFriday 8 May 2020Friday 8 May marks the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day –...Records and researchForeign and Commonwealth Office files from 1990: ‘United Germany’Wednesday 28 August 2019Today, we are releasing new FCO 33 files for 1990, a large number of...Records and researchThe 1918 submarine surrenderThursday 22 November 2018As we all surely know by now, on 11 November 1918 – just over...Records and researchSpy, scoundrel and scholar: Leo Frobenius’ mission to AbyssiniaWednesday 14 November 2018It is a rare treat in any archive to be able to look at...Records and researchMilestones to Peace: the Armistice of CompiègneFriday 9 November 2018The guns fell silent on the Western Front on the eleventh hour of the...Records and researchSpy or scholar? Meet Dr Curt PrüferMonday 24 September 2018During the First World War, British Intelligence made good use of scholars – notably archaeologists and...Records and researchRoyal weddings in history: Prince, Earl and DukeFriday 30 March 2018No other monarch has, arguably, had a bigger impact on the thrones of Europe...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 researchKaiser Wilhelm and the curious pyjama incidentsMonday 20 June 2016Wilhelm’s contemporaries had trouble judging his character - including his fondness for practical jokes...Records and researchBirds of peaceMonday 16 February 2015Whilst going through some papers of the British Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference,...Records and researchDigging for King and CountryTuesday 18 November 2014As I very often tell my friends and colleagues, not all archaeologists are spies....Records and researchSpies and scandals in MI5 filesFriday 24 October 2014Spies, scandal and Marxist historians. Not a combination that usually goes together, but today’s... 1 2 »