Tag: Soviet Union 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 researchSoviet-Japan and the termination of the Second World WarWednesday 2 September 202075 years ago today, in the morning of Sunday 2 September 1945, the Japanese...Records and researchThe PQ 17 disaster and the first Churchill-Stalin summitThursday 19 December 2019At 17:00 on Wednesday 12 August 1942, a B-24 Liberator codenamed ‘Commando’ touched down...Records and research‘The merry adventures of two Military Attachés’Friday 6 December 2019Serendipity often occurs in the course of archival research. While looking for something entirely...Records and researchTo the Moon and back: an ‘epic voyage of discovery’Friday 19 July 2019In 1902, a French film, A Trip to the Moon, related the extraordinary journey...Records and research‘The White Crow’: Rudolf Nureyev’s defection to the WestFriday 22 March 2019This month sees the release of Ralph Fiennes’ film ‘The White Crow’, written by...Records and researchBritain’s secret war against the SovietsWednesday 19 April 2017Letters written by two young men give an extraordinary personal perspective on a forgotten...Records and researchBurgess and Maclean: RevelationsFriday 23 October 2015Burgess and Maclean. The names have been etched into postwar Britain history, synonymous with...Records and research‘A man one could do business with’Wednesday 11 March 2015‘Perestroika’ and ‘glasnost’. These are two Russian words you may have heard at school...