Tag: Second World War Behind the scenesSecond World War home front heroesFriday 6 November 2015Records of over 5,000 Second World War civilian gallantry awards have just been published...Records and researchNational Registration – what happened next?Monday 2 November 2015On the night of 29 September 1939 details of civilians in England and Wales...Records and researchKeeper’s Gallery: Battle of Britain 1940Thursday 1 October 2015Our Keeper’s Gallery currently features a display highlighting the Battle of Britain in 1940....Records and researchNational registration day: 29 September 1939Tuesday 29 September 2015On 29 September 1939 the National Register was taken throughout the UK, Isle of...Records and researchRemembering the City of Benares tragedyThursday 17 September 2015A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog on the torpedoing of passenger...Records and researchThe beginning of the London BlitzMonday 7 September 2015Air raids were one of the main strategies employed during the Second World War...Records and researchThe 1939 Register – when is a ‘census’ not a census?Friday 4 September 2015The declaration of war on Germany in September 1939 came as no great surprise....Archives and archivists‘The grandmother of us all’: the spy who recruited Philby?Friday 21 August 2015The latest batch of MI5 files have been released at The National Archives this...Records and researchThe atomic bombing of HiroshimaThursday 6 August 2015On the morning of Monday 6 August 1945 – 70 years ago today –...Records and researchWhen life imitates art: ‘Come friendly bombs…’Monday 13 July 2015Most people, especially its long suffering residents, are familiar with the John Betjeman poem...Records and research‘A state of affairs that fills me with grave disquiet and distress’Friday 26 June 2015The destruction of antiquities and ancient monuments has, sadly, been making the headlines rather...Records and researchIllustrating victory on VE DayFriday 8 May 2015‘The lights went out and the bombs came down. But every man, woman and... « 1 … 8 9 10 11 12 13 »