Tag: Transport Records and researchThe Beeching AxeMonday 27 March 2023Today marks 60 years since the publication of The Reshaping of British Railways....Records and research‘The industrial bedlam of modern Britain’: The problem of noise in the 1950s and 60sTuesday 17 November 2020Historical evidence is dominated by visual materials, from archival manuscripts and newspaper print to...Behind the scenesChristmas books for history loversTuesday 5 November 2019I know it is still early November but Christmas is next month, so get...Records and researchWhat was rail travel like in 1830?Tuesday 24 November 2015Today we tend to take the railways for granted. If we talk about them...Records and research‘A triumph of hope over evidence’Friday 6 March 2015Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo, Fashoda, Mers-el-Kebir… With the England-France rugby game drawing closer, these are...Records and researchThe Moorgate Tube crashSaturday 28 February 201528 February 2015 is the 40th anniversary of the Moorgate Tube crash in 1975. Files from...Behind the scenesShip shape: conserving the Regent’s Canal Company’s minute booksThursday 26 February 20152012 marked the bicentenary of construction starting on London’s famous Regent’s Canal. The Regent’s...Records and researchMotoring towards liberationMonday 11 August 2014One of the best things about working at The National Archives is stumbling across...Records and researchThe ill-fated cycle busThursday 21 November 2013On 18 November 2013 it was exactly 50 years since the first Dartford Tunnel...Behind the scenesAcross the desert in a Model TMonday 21 October 2013It is a given (in a more literary moment I might say a truth...Records and research40 years since Concorde’s first non-stop transatlantic flightThursday 26 September 201326 September 2013 marks exactly 40 years since Concorde, the supersonic passenger aircraft, made...