Tag: Home Office Records and researchConstance Markievicz and the 1918 General ElectionWednesday 14 December 2022The 1918 General Election saw 17 women across the political spectrum stand for Parliament...Records and researchCommunal violence in 1808 and the role of the magistratesWednesday 5 October 2022various parts of England in 1808 which highlight the role of magistrates in dealing...Records and research‘Bad and Ripe for Mischief’: Events of 1810 as seen by the Home OfficeThursday 4 August 2022The past, they say, is another country and Home Office papers from 1810 reveal...Records and researchWar, crops and inflation: Nothing newFriday 20 May 2022One of the repercussions of world events at present is the shortage of grain...Records and researchRoyal Patriotic School: Interrogation of civilians arriving in UK from abroadFriday 3 December 2021From May 1940 British officials started interviewing foreign nationals or refugees arriving at British...Records and researchThe Home Office: Then and nowMonday 21 September 2020For more than 10 years volunteers at The National Archives have been cataloguing a...Records and researchPeterloo: Whatever Happened to Henry Hunt?Thursday 29 August 2019On 16 August 1819, 60,000 people gathered on St Peter’s Field in Manchester to...Records and researchBringing Peterloo AliveMonday 19 August 2019Last Friday saw people around the country marking the anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre,...Archives and archivistsHarris, Tisley or Dove? A question of identityFriday 31 May 2019A group of volunteers at The National Archives has recently completed a project to...Records and researchMistaken identity: Elizabeth Burley and the Contagious Diseases ActsThursday 14 March 2019Let those who have never seen a ship of war, picture to themselves a...Records and researchLaw enforcement in Britain before and after PeterlooFriday 2 November 2018This is the last in our series of blogs marking the release of the...Records and researchResearching ‘Peterloo’ at The National ArchivesWednesday 31 October 2018This is the second of our blog posts this week to mark the release... 1 2 »