Tag: Second World War Behind the scenes‘For you, my friend, the war is over’: cataloguing 200,000 prisoner of war recordsMonday 13 March 2023National Archives volunteers have completed a major project to catalogue the personnel cards of...Records and researchHow Florence Nightingale David saved lives during the Blitz – with statisticsFriday 3 March 2023We explore the wartime work carried out by this pioneering statistician...Records and researchRemembering the Gross-Rosen concentration campThursday 26 January 2023Friday 27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day. Together, we remember the millions of victims...Records and researchThe story of HMT Empire Windrush (1930–1954)Thursday 15 December 2022Next June will mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush...Archives and archivistsCataloguing selected Second World War service personnel recordsMonday 21 November 2022In her presentation for The National Archives’ Catalogue Week 2022, Meada Wadman gives an...Records and researchWinston Churchill’s secret voyage (Part two): The Atlantic CharterWednesday 2 November 2022On the first day of the Atlantic Conference (9 August 1941) at Placentia Bay,...Records and researchWinston Churchill’s secret voyage (Part one)Friday 28 October 2022Prime Minister Winston Churchill undertook a long and daring journey by ship to meet...Records and researchBlack GIs arrive in Britain (Part two)Thursday 20 October 2022The first white American troops landed in Northern Ireland in January 1942, and they...Records and researchBlack GIs arrive in Britain (Part one)Friday 14 October 2022Several years ago I recall hearing a story about villagers in the West Country...Records and researchSpies, social climbers and suspicious stories from the files of MI5Tuesday 11 October 2022In 1962, civil servant John Vassall was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment for espionage....Records and researchThe Libyan Arab Force during the Second World WarMonday 15 August 2022The Libyan Arab Force, initially known as the British Arab Force before eventually becoming...Records and researchResearching overseas forces in the Second World War: ‘French Tchad’Wednesday 13 July 2022The National Archives has now released the first (approximately) 150,000 records relating to several... 1 2 3 … 11 »
