Tag: Second World War Records and researchRemembering the men of Bomber Command who didn’t make it homeTuesday 20 June 2023Who officially researched the fate of missing RAF personnel during the Second World War?...Records and researchThe story of Edward Lees: Refugee, internee, soldierMonday 19 June 2023In 1934, 13-year-old Erhard Wilhelm Saar arrived in the UK fleeing Nazi Germany. By...Records and researchLeaving the Italian prisoner of war camp FontanellatoWednesday 7 June 2023How prisoners of war escaped from Italy following the Italian armistice of September 1943....Records and researchPolicing migration: researching the lives of foreign nationals in a government archiveTuesday 30 May 2023We trace the stories of three people who migrated to Britain during the 1920s...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... « 1 2 3 4 … 13 »