Tag: Second World War Records and research‘Only a bold course can save civilisation’: The atomic bomb, Britain and the future of warFriday 28 August 2020On 28 August 1945, the newly elected British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, authored a...Records and researchOperations which never happened (part 2): Operation Zipper and MailfistFriday 14 August 2020In the week leading up to VE Day in 1945, British and Indian forces...Archives and archivistsThe Archivists’ Guide to Film: The Bridge on the River KwaiThursday 13 August 2020Correspondence between film companies and the War Office turns up in a number of...Records and researchThe Forgotten Army: West African Troops in Burma, 1945Wednesday 12 August 2020They have been called the ‘Forgotten Army’ – the British Fourteenth Army who, in...Records and researchOperations which didn’t happen (part 1): British participation in the invasion of Japan, 1945Tuesday 11 August 2020Had the atomic bombs not been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in the...Records and researchDepicting Japan in British propaganda of the Second World WarMonday 10 August 2020In the first few years of the Second World War, Britons’ knowledge of and...Records and researchThe defence and loss of Crete, 1940-1941 (Part 2)Friday 7 August 2020The Germans planned to lead the invasion of Crete with their airborne troops, with...Records and researchThe defence and loss of Crete, 1940-1941 (Part 1)Thursday 6 August 2020In 1940 Britain began to take an interest in using Crete as a military...Archives and archivistsThe Archivists’ Guide to Film: The Great EscapeMonday 29 June 2020The Archivists’ Guide to Film is a blog series in which staff at The...Records and researchDigitising little treasures – Part 1: Egbert Rizzo and the making of an SOE AgentWednesday 24 June 2020As a Project Conservator in the Digitisation Team, I am used to hundreds of...Records and research‘France has lost a battle! But France hasn’t lost the war!’Monday 22 June 202080 years ago, on 18 June 1940, powerful words were pronounced on the BBC,...Records and researchThe displacement of Poles and their subsequent resettlement in the United Kingdom, 1939-1949Wednesday 17 June 2020A plethora of information exists in our collections on Poland and the plight of... « 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 … 13 »