The National Archives Podcast Series

UKAD forum 2014: Raising the standard - AIM25 and authorities and indexes

Geoff Browell talks about the role of authority data in AIM25, including UKAT.The United Kingdom...

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UKAD forum 2014: The connected age, the European stage - Social History Portal

Afelonne Doek introduces the Social History Portal, an outcome of the European funded project...

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UKAD forum 2014: The connected age, the European stage - Archives Portal Europe

Kerstin Arnold and Jane Stevenson present a case study showing how the UK went from zero data to...

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Georgian Londoners - the making of a modern city

Lucy Inglis looks at the making of the London identity, and how it was shaped through the last...

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Big Ideas: Sense and sensitivity

Contrary to previous fears, there is unlikely to be a 'black hole' in our official history due to...

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Big Ideas: How to turn a tin can into a TARDIS

Starting with a tin can and a tried and tested supermarket analogy Mark Merifield covers some...

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Operation Unthinkable: Churchill's plan for World War Three

Churchill's top secret plan to attack the Soviet Empire was scheduled for 1 July 1945. British,...

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Writer of the month: Human woes - researching violence and pain in the archives

Joanna Bourke discusses her book What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present...

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The Post Office Tower: symbol of a new Britain?

When the Post Office Tower was opened officially on 8 October 1965, it was London's tallest...

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Early civil registration

Everyone researching 19th century English or Welsh ancestors is familiar with birth, marriage and...

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'...we may lie and die in a land of plenty...': The Victorian poor in their own words

In all but the most specialist accounts of Victorian histories the poor are often represented...

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Spies like us: The secret life of Ernest Oldham

The security service files held at The National Archives in series KV 2 reveal that many people...

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Big Ideas: The Great Archive Debate: a view from York

At the end of the last century the great heritage debate transformed thinking about public...

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The Keeper's Gallery Talk 2014: The UK's entry to the European Economic Community

James Cronan, Diplomatic and Colonial Records Specialist at The National Archives, outlines the...

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He is so silly he would rather have a half pence than a shilling: Discovering the history of learning disability

Simon Jarrett explores the fascinating and little-known world of the history of people with...

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Security Service file release February 2014

Professor Christopher Andrew, formerly official historian of MI5 and author of 'The Defence of...

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From deviance to diversity?

Finding sexuality and sexual science in the archives. Dr Lesley Hall, Senior...

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Digitising MH 47 the Middlesex military service appeal tribunal

On the introduction of conscription in 1916, Military Service Tribunals were set up to hear...

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Black in the British Frame

Stephen Bourne shares his memories of growing up in Peckham and of his adopted Aunt Esther, a...

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Big ideas: From catwalk to cultural collections

Big Ideas is a series of briefings on big ideas coming out of The National Archives' research...

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