Tag: Second World War Behind the scenesThe Home GuardTuesday 17 July 2018In June 1940, following a scrambled evacuation of troops at Dunkirk, the Second World...Records and researchSecrecy, sabotage and resistance: a Second World War ‘special relationship’Thursday 29 March 2018For the first time, resources are available to academics and researchers online on the...Behind the scenesSuggestions for your reading list: animals at warWednesday 7 March 2018When we think about war, it is usually to remember the men and women...Behind the scenesOpening up our prisoner of war collectionTuesday 16 January 2018In December 2014, the Ministry of Defence transferred to The National Archives the series...Records and researchStrange meeting: from Voysey’s heresy to Aldred’s anarchismFriday 15 December 2017To me, ‘The Sling and the Stone’ seemed an odd entry to find in...Records and researchThe battle for heavy waterThursday 14 December 2017Last October, I attended a conference on ‘Résistance et Dissuasion’ – the Resistance and...Records and researchThe Beveridge Report and the foundations of the Welfare StateThursday 7 December 2017‘Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for...Records and researchSex, Spies and another Scandal: the other Profumo affairTuesday 28 November 2017At the height of the Profumo affair, the greatest British political scandal of the...Records and researchMers-el-Kébir: the prequel?Monday 19 June 2017For many across the Channel the events of 3 July 1940 represent the ultimate...Records and researchAnatomy of a disaster: the Bombay Docks ExplosionThursday 13 April 2017On Friday 14 April 1944, explosions in Victoria Dock killed over 740 people and...Records and researchThe ‘Monuments Men’ in Normandy after D-DayMonday 27 March 2017It seemed to me that their action to safeguard historic monuments located on the...Records and researchClare Hollingworth: ‘A clever English journalist’Wednesday 15 February 2017War correspondent Clare Hollingworth filed the scoop of the century: the beginning of the... « 1 … 6 7 8 9 10 … 13 »