The National Archives Podcast Series
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Listen to talks, lectures and other events presented by The National Archives of the United Kingdom.
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Magna Carta – what's so 'great' about the charter? | We apologise for the variable sound quality of this podcast. This year is the 800th anniversary of the granting of Magna Carta – King John’s Great Charter. This charter guaranteed a number of vital rights and privileges and is still seen as being the | 12/30/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Using the 1939 Register: Recording the UK population before the war | The preparations had been made well in advance. Now Britain was at war, and as the uniformed army prepared to face the enemy, a civilian army was mobilised at home. National Registration Officers, registrars, and 65,000 enumerators set about the huge tas | 12/22/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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For king and another country: Indian soldiers on the Western Front | Over a million Indian soldiers fought in the First World War, many travelling from remote villages in India to the muddy trenches of France and Flanders. In her book For King and Another Country, writer and journalist, Shrabani Basu, delves into archives | 12/15/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writer of the month: A history of war in 100 battles | 'Battle is not a game to plug into a computer but a piece of living history: messy, bloody and real.' Richard Overy, Professor of History at the University of Exeter, Fellow of the British Academy and Member of the European Academy for Science and Arts, | 12/8/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Ideas: Freedom of Memory: A new human right? | This presentation introduces the concept of Freedom of Memory, which Elizabeth is currently developing. The talk proposes a possible definition for this potential new human right and explain why such a Freedom is necessary at this point in time. The pres | 10/30/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Security Service file release October 2015: Discussion | Stephen Twigge head of modern collections at The National Archives in conversation with Professor Christoper Andrew former official historian of MI5 and author of 'The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5', and Gill Bennett former chief hi | 10/23/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Security Service file release October 2015: Introduction | Professor Christopher Andrew, formerly official historian of MI5 and author of 'The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5', introduces key files from the release of Security Service files to The National Archives in October 2015. | 10/23/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Barbara Hepworth, her life and work | Barbara Hepworth’s life and work examined through records held by selected archives, including The National Archives and the Tate archives, marking the 40th anniversary of her death Inga Fraser is Assistant Curator of Modern British Art 1890-1945 at Ta | 10/22/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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First World War rugby and the first World Cup | When Britain's Empire went to war in August 1914, rugby players were among the first men to volunteer. Leading from the front, they paid a high price. After four long years, Armistice came and it was time to play rugby again. In 1919, Twickenham saw the | 10/16/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'Over the top: a foul a blurry foul' – the first football charge of the First World War | Our collection of First World War records is one of the largest in the world. It includes, among many other documents, service records, letters, diaries, maps and photographs. Part of Britain's folk memory of the First World War is of long lines of Tommi | 10/2/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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1939 National Registration Night | In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, the British government introduced an Act that would allow them to gather vital information about the country's population. This information would inform their decisions on identity cards, rationing and conscri | 9/29/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kew lives – reconstructing the past | Emily Ward-Willis explains how to research the local history of an area, using the Mortlake Terrace shops in Kew as a case study. The talk will show how you can use records held by The National Archives, and other archives and local studies centres, to r | 9/25/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writer of the month: Peter Doggett – Electric shock: From the gramophone to the iPhone | Peter Doggett argues that from the birth of recording in the 19th century to the digital age, popular music has transformed the world in which we live. It has influenced our morals and social mores; it has transformed our attitudes towards race and gende | 9/17/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Ideas: On pilgrimage in England | The 1930s saw a resurgence of interest in local knowledge and traditions, and intense debate about how it might be possible to 'go modern' while honouring the past. Alexandra Harris looks back on her research for Romantic Moderns, remembering how she fol | 9/11/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Ideas: Innovation in the Air Force | Ross Mahoney's talk is based on sources ranging from operational records held by The National Archives to some of the personal recollections found at other archival institutions and in the memoirs of retired officers. By bringing these together he highli | 9/4/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Security Service file release August 2015 | Professor Christopher Andrew, formerly official historian of MI5 and author of 'The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5', introduces key files from the release of Security Service files to The National Archives in August 2015. | 8/21/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Waterloo men: the records of Wellington's Waterloo army | By taking two men who fought at Waterloo and exploring how different records bring their careers to life, Carole Divall demonstrates the hidden stories that can be found within army records. Carole Divall is a former teacher and now researches, writes an | 8/14/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dunkirk: from disaster to deliverance | Drawing on fresh new interviews with Dunkirk veterans – soldiers and sailors – plus unseen private correspondence and diaries, author Sinclair McKay delves into a pivotal historical moment and beneath the myth. The story of how a raggle-taggle flotil | 8/7/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writer of the month: Jenny Uglow | Jenny Uglow talks about her book, In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815. This podcast was recorded live as part of the Writer of the month series, which broadens awareness of historical records and their uses for writers. | 7/17/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Ideas: The women's war in the Middle East - women's First World War service in Egypt, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and Palestine | Nadia Atia is Lecturer in World Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research examines the literature and cultural history of the First World War outside Europe. Her work explores how ideologies of race and empire shaped the ways in which | 7/10/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'The Germans are here!' London's first Zeppelin raid | Ten months into the First World War and the feared onslaught on London by Germany's fleet of airships - Zeppelins - had failed to materialise. There was sympathy for those killed or injured in air raids elsewhere, but these were far away and had little i | 7/6/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writer of the month: Adam Nicolson - Wordsworth's and Coleridge's year together in Somerset, 1797-1798 | Adam Nicolson discusses his research into his forthcoming book about Wordsworth's and Coleridge's year in Somerset. He used documents in The National Archives which relate to the Home Office's surveillance of the poets in August 1797. Some suspected they | 6/22/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Arts and Inspiration Day at The National Archives 2014: Propaganda | Simon Demissie looks at Propaganda through the records held at The National Archives, including the wartime posters in INF 3 and the 1970s 'Protect and Survive' Public Information Films. Arts and Inspiration Day is a free event for students thinking of f | 6/5/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Arts and Inspiration Day at The National Archives 2014: Maps and plans | Rose Mitchell reveals the maps and plans held at The National Archives. Arts and Inspiration Day is a free event for students thinking of future PhD study which introduces the research potential of The National Archives' collection. This event was held o | 6/5/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Arts and Inspiration Day at The National Archives 2014: Design history and material culture | Julie Halls discusses design history and material culture as a potential area for research. Arts and Inspiration Day is a free event for students thinking of future PhD study which introduces the research potential of The National Archives' collection. T | 6/5/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Arts and Inspiration Day at The National Archives 2014: Music and lyrics | Jo Pugh reveals the music, lyrics and poetry lurking in diverse records, from Thomas Byrd's pupil, John Bull to songs from Second World War prisoner of war camps. Arts and Inspiration Day is a free event for students thinking of future PhD study which in | 6/5/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Portillo's State Secrets | Researcher Tommy Norton introduces some of the 30 documents featured in the BBC 2 ten-part television series, Portillo's State Secrets. He also talks about the background to the series. Originally a journalist on local newspapers and magazines, Tommy spe | 5/29/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writer of the month: Helen Castor on Joan of Arc | Helen Castor in conversation, discussing her new book, Joan of Arc: A history. Find out more about Helen Castor on her website. This podcast was recorded live as part of the Writer of the month series, which broadens awareness of historical records and t | 5/22/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tracing railway ancestors | The National Archives holds a vast collection of railway related material, a legacy passed down by hundreds of railway companies which operated in all corners of the UK from 1825 to 1947. Much of this material provides opportunities for local and family | 3/27/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Ideas: Rapid response collecting | Rapid Response Collecting is a new strand to the V&A's collecting activity - one that is responsive to global events, situating design in immediate relation to moments of political, economic and social change. Corinna Gardner explores how an IKEA toy wol | 3/13/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Vanishing for the Vote: diverse suffragettes boycott the 1911 census | Vanishing for the Vote tells the story of what happened on census night, 2 April 1911. Despite decades of campaigning, no woman had won the right to vote. Suffragettes urged women to boycott the census, proclaiming 'No vote, no census!'. This talk is bas | 3/6/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Ideas: 'An heroic, slow-motion cataloguing of life': ethics and digitisation | A culture shift is taking place in the Wellcome Library's Special Collections team. Driven by a growing realisation that past acquisition policies have left patient perspectives on health and well-being woefully under-represented, they have started to re | 2/26/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writer of the month: My history - Antonia Fraser | Antonia Fraser's memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and 1940s but its real concern is with her growing love of History. The fascination began as a child - and developed into an enduring passion; as she writes, 'for me, the study of History has alwa | 2/19/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The huns have got my gramophone: advertisements from the Great War | In the nineteenth century, Britain led the world in the production of illustrated books and magazines. By the 1890s, commercial artists often drew for both magazine publishers and advertisers, which gave a continuity of style. Some well-known 21st centur | 2/12/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lines on the map: records of international boundaries | The National Archives holds one of the largest and most important accumulations of maps in the world. They document the United Kingdom's involvement in shaping boundaries and in resolving boundary disputes over many centuries, either as a colonial power, | 1/29/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writer of the month: The Spanish ambassador's suitcase | Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson discuss their new book, The Spanish ambassador's suitcase. Matthew Parris worked for the Foreign Office and the Conservative Research Department before serving as MP for West Derbyshire. He joined The Times as parliamenta | 1/22/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Ideas: The shape of time | Visualisation is widely believed to bring many benefits, assisting us in making sense of all kinds of information. To try to make diagrams of history - using timelines or some other kind of chronographics - may seem a simple task. We might regard time as | 1/8/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Newly released files from 1985 and 1986 | Contemporary records specialists Mark Dunton and Simon Demissie discuss the latest batch of government records to be released to The National Archives. The years were 1985 and 1986. Introduced by Rebecca Simpson. | 12/29/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A game for Christmas: Football on the Western Front, December 1914? | Any mention of football and the First World War will evoke the Christmas Truce of 1914 and the football match played in No Man's Land. At the time many denied that a truce had occurred, let alone a football match between the combatants. This talk uses Br | 12/22/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writer of the month: Tracy Borman on Thomas Cromwell | Dr Tracy Borman, author, historian and broadcaster, discusses her biography of Thomas Cromwell. The National Archives hosts a series of monthly talks to broaden awareness of historical records and their uses for writers. Each month, a high-profile author | 12/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Ideas: The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Cultural Value Project | The Arts and Humanities Research Council's Cultural Value Project was set up late in 2012 to address the dissatisfaction with the ways in which we understand and articulate the benefits of arts and culture. These tended to concentrate on the publicly-fun | 12/11/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writer of the month: Stories from behind the Berlin Wall | Hester Vaizey discusses her latest book, Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow of the Wall, which reveals the everyday lives of citizens of the former German Democratic Republic. The National Archives is again hosting a series of monthly talks to broaden | 12/4/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paddy Ashdown: The Cruel Victory | Paddy Ashdown discusses his new book, The Cruel Victory, which tells the long-neglected D-Day story of the Resistance uprising and subsequent massacre on the Vercors massif - the largest action by the French Resistance during the Second World War. Overlo | 11/27/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Chevalier d'Eon: Transgender Diplomat at the Court of George III, 1763-1777 | In 1763 peace broke out between France and Britain, ending the Seven Years War. The defeated superpower France was left nursing its wounds, as well as thoughts of revenge. While King Louis XV's foreign minister sought to maintain the peace, the King's sp | 11/20/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Putting it all together: using archives to discover your community's involvement in the First World War | The names of the First World War dead are there for all to see, on war memorials all over the country. Many individuals and groups are researching the stories behind the names, but what about delving even deeper? There is even more to be learned about th | 11/17/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The civil service in the First World War | The First World War affected every sector of society, as the nation's resources were harnessed for the war effort. Like other employers, the civil service lost staff to the armed forces and had to replace them while they were away. It also had to deal wi | 11/13/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Inventions that didn't change the world: a history of Victorian curiosities | In an era when Britain led the world in technological innovation, a host of lesser inventors were also hard at work. Registering designs for copyright was quicker and cheaper than the convoluted patenting process; anyone with what they thought was a good | 11/6/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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1974: forty years on | Mark Dunton looks back at UK National events in 1974 in this illustrated podcast. Drawing on the public records he highlights some unusual or little known aspects about the events of that year. 1974 was a difficult year in modern British history - the tw | 10/30/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Security Service file release October 2014 | Professor Christopher Andrew, formerly official historian of MI5 and author of 'The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5', introduces key files from the release of Security Service files to The National Archives in October 2014. | 10/23/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writer of the month: Philippa Gregory | Philippa Gregory in conversation with Caroline Kimbell, discussing how she uses original records and introducing her new novel, The King's Curse. Philippa Gregory was already an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tud | 10/23/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Maps: their untold stories | Drawn from seven centuries of maps of places around the globe held in The National Archives, Maps: their untold stories offers a fascinating and unusual journey through the world of maps. Hear from the authors as they explain who made these maps, why the | 10/16/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Ideas: Understanding patterns of behaviour for users of public records | When Google launched in 1998, a prime ingredient in their not-so-secret sauce was the question: if a user randomly clicked links where on the web might they end up? They called the answer PageRank. This involved treating the web as a network rather than | 10/9/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From British bobby to Hong Kong copper | This year marks the 170th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Police. This talk traces the history of the organisation through the stories of a few very ordinary British constables from the 1840s up to the First World War. Some sacrificed t | 10/2/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The naval policy of the Free Church of Scotland | In 1843 the established Church of Scotland suffered a large secession of members who formed the Free Church of Scotland. In the early years of its existence the new church had to overcome a shortage of buildings and clergy, as well as the hostility of ma | 9/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'A World of Their Design': The men who shaped Tudor diplomacy | In a time of shifting politics and world changing events, three men would emerge as masterful diplomats, ambassadors and advisors who possessed a shrewd political acumen. They each shared a complex and intriguing relationship with the other, while manipu | 9/14/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'Things as are all Forms, & Ceremonys': Ritual and authority in the reign of Queen Anne | Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, impatient with courtly ritual, gave Queen Anne grudging praise for her knowledge of protocol: 'She has the greatest memory that ever was, especially for such things as are all forms, & ceremonys, giving people their due Ran | 9/3/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 57 | VideoWebinar: Why did people fear the Victorian workhouse? | The workhouse was a major feature in the lives of the poor, whether or not they were ever inmates themselves. This webinar can help you to explore records in The National Archives, showing what life was like inside the workhouse, and how it was viewed by | 9/2/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 58 | VideoWebinar: An introduction to emigration sources for family historians | This webinar looks at passenger lists and other records for the popular destinations for migrants leaving the UK. Increasing numbers of these records have been digitised and are now available online. Mark Pearsall is a Family History Records Specialist a | 8/31/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 59 | VideoWebinar: Tracing British battalions or regiments during the First World War | Unit war diaries, trench maps and photographs are just some of the sources held in The National Archives. This webinar looks at how to find these records and how to use them. David Langrish graduated in War Studies from the University of Kent and is a me | 8/31/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 60 | VideoWebinar: Army musters - more than just accounts | This webinar looks at how the army accounted for the money it spent on its personnel and what you can discover in the records in addition to financial costs. William Spencer is The National Archives' Principal Records Specialist in military history, and | 8/28/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 61 | VideoWebinar: An introduction to medieval and early modern sources for family historians | Medieval and early modern records can be very informative, although they are often harder to locate than those for more recent periods. This webinar provides an overview of sources in The National Archives and elsewhere. Nick Barratt is head of the Medie | 8/28/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Did she kill him? Addiction, adultery and arsenic in Victorian Britain | Florence Chandler was in her early 20s when she married much older James Maybrick, a Liverpool cotton broker, in 1881. Eight years later, tensions seethed. James was addicted to arsenic. Both were unfaithful. When James died suddenly, Florence was arrest | 8/21/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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War and Peace conference: Closing remarks: the First World War and intelligence | Closing remarks by Gill Bennett, former Chief Historian, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1995-2005. This talk was recorded live at the one-day conference, War and peace - diplomacy, espionage and the First World War, held on 28 June 2014 at The National | 8/14/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Ideas: Big Data for Law | Big data is big news. Did you know an estimated 90 per cent of the world's data was created in the last two years (see www.ibm.com/big-data)? Insights gleaned from large datasets are increasingly driving business innovation and economic growth. Underpinn | 8/14/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writer of the month: A very British murder | A Very British Murder is Lucy Worsley's account of a national obsession - a tale of dark deeds and guilty pleasures Lucy Worsley is Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity which opens up The Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace | 8/7/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Peacetime diplomacy and the New European Order | Professor Alan Sharp, of the University of Ulster, examines diplomacy after the Paris Peace Conference. This talk was recorded live at the one-day conference, War and peace - diplomacy, espionage and the First World War, held on 28 June 2014 at The Natio | 7/31/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wartime diplomacy: The role of the Empire | Dr Bryan Glass, of Texas State University, examines the role of the Empire during the First World War. This talk was recorded live at the one-day conference, War and peace - diplomacy, espionage and the First World War, held on 28 June 2014 at The Nation | 7/31/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The road to war: The prelude to war | Dr Stephen Twigge, of The National Archives, outlines the political landscape preceding the First World War - the July Crisis. This talk was recorded live at the one-day conference, War and peace - diplomacy, espionage and the First World War, held on 28 | 7/31/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The road to war: At home and abroad: propaganda and intelligence | Dr Martin Farr, of Newcastle University, discusses propaganda and intelligence in the lead up to the First World War. This talk was recorded live at the one-day conference, War and peace - diplomacy, espionage and the First World War, held on 28 June 201 | 7/31/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wartime diplomacy: Getting global: American involvement | Dr Richard Dunley, of The National Archives, discusses American involvement in the First World War, particularly the three-way dynamic of British-American-German relationships. This talk was recorded live at the one-day conference, War and peace - diplom | 7/31/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lines in the sand | Dr Juliette Desplat, of The National Archives, gives an overview of the consequences of the First World War for the Middle East. This talk was recorded live at the one-day conference, War and peace - diplomacy, espionage and the First World War, held on | 7/31/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Annual lecture of the Pipe Roll Society (2014): Formal record and courtroom reality in 13th and 14th century England | Please note: Professor Brand quotes direct dialogue from original plea rolls and some listeners might find the language offensive. The Annual Lecture of the Pipe Roll Society 2014 was given by Professor Paul Brand, All Souls College Oxford. Professor Bra | 7/24/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Keeping it in the family | In a period where politics could not be separated from dynasty and the personal relationships between individuals were crucial to government, women often played a key role in diplomacy. This was certainly the case in relations between England and Scotlan | 7/17/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Ideas: Sharing knowledge and expertise with business | The National Archives is engaged in its first Knowledge Transfer Partnership. The scheme aims to support UK businesses to improve their competitiveness, productivity and performance by accessing knowledge and expertise in UK academic institutions. The sc | 7/10/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special Operations Executive (SOE) service - some alternative sources | Have you been unsuccessful in searching for a personal file for someone in SOE or perhaps you found a file containing little detail? There may be alternative or supplementary sources. This talk suggests ways to identify these sources and find further inf | 7/3/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Inconvenient people and how to find them: Tales from the Victorian lunacy panics | The 19th century saw a series of scandals concerning sane individuals being locked away in lunatic asylums, who were the victims of unscrupulous persons who wanted to be rid of a 'difficult' family member, spouse or friend. But who were the victims of th | 6/26/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Finding my father in Mesopotamia | Jenny Lewis's father fought as a young man in the First World War campaign in Mesopotamia - modern day Iraq, Iran and Syria. He joined the South Wales Borderers in 1915 and served in Mesopotamia until 1917 when he was wounded at Kut al Amara. He died in | 6/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The untold story of the RAF's black Second World War fliers over Europe | While the United States could boast the black fliers of Tuskegee, few people are aware of the important contribution made by 500 RAF aircrew recruited from the Caribbean and West Africa. Overcoming the legacy of the official British Colour Bar to serve o | 6/9/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Idea: A competition to encourage videogame design students to go 'Off the Map' | Stella Wisdom discusses the 'Off the Map' competition: a unique collaboration the British Library has with videogame company Crytek and GameCity festival based in Nottingham. Off the Map challenges students in higher education to build exciting, explorab | 6/5/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reluctant regicides? The trial of Charles I revisited | Dr Andrew Hopper investigates the recent controversy among historians about the nature of the trial of King Charles I. Which individuals drove the king's trial and what were their aims and goals? Did the king know he was doomed from the outset or did dou | 5/29/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Webinar: Cloud storage and digital preservation | How can cloud storage help address growing digital preservation challenges? A webinar took place on 13 May 2014 to introduce The National Archives' new cloud storage and digital preservation guidance. The webinar was an opportunity to learn more about th | 5/26/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 one of the leading contributors to the Portal through the benefits of interoperable data. The United Kingdom Archives Discovery (UKAD) network is a collabora | 5/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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UKAD forum 2014: Going where the people are | This is the keynote talk at the United Kingdom Archives Discovery (UKAD) 2014 forum, delivered by Nick Poole. He explores how data standards can help museums, archives and libraries become an essential and trusted part of daily life for millions of onlin | 5/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 Heritage of the People's Europe (HOPE), giving access to over 900,000 digital objects and more than 2 million item descriptions. The United Kingdom Archives Dis | 5/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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UKAD forum 2014: The connected age, the European stage - Europeana | Kerstin Arnold explains the open data principles underpinning Europeana and how the data is accessible through different routes. The United Kingdom Archives Discovery (UKAD) network is a collaborative group of archives and other information professionals | 5/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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UKAD forum 2014: Raising the standard - Finding Archives: standards and data exchange in action | Jonathan Cates introduces the new Discovery Finding Archives website, cornerstone of The National Archives' role as sector champion. The United Kingdom Archives Discovery (UKAD) network is a collaborative group of archives and other information professio | 5/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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UKAD forum 2014: Knowing your rights - More than just data standards: what are the rights challenges for digitisation and onlin | Ronan Deazley draws on examples of large-scale archive digitisation initiatives to discuss copyright compliance and risk management when making archive material available online. The United Kingdom Archives Discovery (UKAD) network is a collaborative gro | 5/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 Archives Discovery (UKAD) network is a collaborative group of archives and other information professionals, of which The National Archives is part, who are | 5/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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UKAD forum 2014: Raising the standard - The Archives Hub: Putting the data centre-stage | Jane Stevenson talks about the importance of data exchange and the fluidity of data, and how this can be achieved behind the scenes in order to provide a better service to end-users. The United Kingdom Archives Discovery (UKAD) network is a collaborative | 5/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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UKAD forum 2014: Standards in archival collection management systems | Malcolm Howitt explores developing collection management systems for archives and the balance between offering flexible data management tools and support for an increasing variety of data standards. The United Kingdom Archives Discovery (UKAD) network is | 5/18/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 years of the 17th century, then consolidated throughout the 18th century as London moved towards Enlightenment. Lucy Inglis began the blog GeorgianLondon in 20 | 5/15/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 lost emails and other digital information. In fact, quite the opposite. According to official sources, government is deluged with digital information and no | 5/11/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 basic principles of information management and explores the value that's held in metadata. Building on ideas being worked on by government's Metadata and Vocabu | 5/5/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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, US, Polish and German forces were to attempt to liberate East Germany and Poland and bring Stalin back to the conference table. If they did not succeed, Allie | 4/27/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 and how she uses original records in her writing. Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the prize-winning a | 4/24/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 building. It was also seen as symbolising a new, exciting technological revolution and a new spirit of optimism, successfully capturing the public imagination. In | 4/21/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Early civil registration | Everyone researching 19th century English or Welsh ancestors is familiar with birth, marriage and death certificates, but how much thought do we give to the origins of the General Register Office which was created to look after these records? Not everyon | 4/6/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 through generalisations, graphs or summed up in 'averaging' paragraphs. More detailed work might look at the experiences of individual poor people through pulli | 3/31/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 involved in espionage, like Foreign Office clerk Ernest Oldham, were ordinary folk who entered an extraordinary world by chance - often with tragic consequenc | 3/13/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 engagement with the past in historic sites and museums. Do new initiatives in archives promise something similar in public engagement with history now, and how mig | 3/6/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 events around the United Kingdom's entry to the European Economic Community. | 3/6/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 learning disabilities, known variously over time as idiots, imbeciles, defectives and the mentally handicapped. Using court records, government files, parish recor | 3/6/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Security Service file release February 2014 | Professor Christopher Andrew, formerly official historian of MI5 and author of 'The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5?, introduces key files from the 30th release of Security Service files to The National Archives in February 2014. The l | 2/27/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From deviance to diversity? | Finding sexuality and sexual science in the archives. Dr Lesley Hall, Senior Archivist at the Wellcome Library, examines sources at the Wellcome Library on questions of sexuality from approximately 1800 to the present, with particular reference to the rol | 2/17/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 applications and appeals for exemption. Surviving material is fragmented but two complete sets of tribunal papers were retained, including those for the Middlesex | 2/11/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 black Londoner born before the First World War and the subject of his first book. And he talks about how, from an educationally disadvantaged background, he came | 2/10/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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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 programme. Covering themes of innovation, creativity and excellence each Big Idea will share with colleagues and professionals aspects of innovative research tak | 2/6/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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News from FamilySearch | Sharon Hintze brings you up with the latest developments on FamilySearch, the world's largest genealogical organisation. It is rapidly evolving, with new features and collections, and partnerships with commercial organisations arising almost weekly. Sharo | 1/27/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Ideas: Mind the Gap | Mind the Gap is an entirely collaborative project which has has gathered the real-life experiences of professionals in the heritage science field. It has included partners from The National Archives, UCL, Tate and the University of Exeter. The project tea | 1/24/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Public Cooperation with the Household Expenditure Enquiry, 1953-1954 | The Household Expenditure Enquiry of 1953-54 was the first large-scale enquiry into household expenditure and income in the United Kingdom since the Family Budget Enquiry of 1937-1938. It was intended to cover 20,000 households and the Ministry of Labour | 1/20/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hidden treasures? Uncovering maps among the files of government | The National Archives holds over six million maps and plans and the majority are among files, boxes, volumes and rolls. Map specialist Andrew Janes explores the variety of these 'hidden' maps and examines some interesting examples from a range of governme | 1/12/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New files from 1984 | Contemporary records specialists Mark Dunton and Simon Demissie discuss the latest batch of government records to be released to The National Archives. The year was 1984 and Margaret Thatcher's appointment diary, included in this collection for the first | 1/2/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The day parliament burned down | In the early evening of 16 October 1834, to the horror of bystanders, a huge ball of fire exploded through the roof of the Houses of Parliament, creating a blaze so enormous that it could be seen by the King and Queen at Windsor, and from stagecoaches on | 12/20/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NDACA - the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive | In this talk Tony Heaton examines the vision for The National Disability Arts Collection and Archive and the wider historical and social context. Tony Heaton OBE has been involved in the disability arts sector as an artist and activist for many years and | 12/16/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Britain's air forces in the First World War | This talk covers the record sources for those who served in the air forces, their formations and machines. It also explores a case study of a famous airman to illustrate some of the inventions and developments that led to final victory in 1918. Clive Hawk | 12/13/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Scandals in the family | This talk explores the deeds and misdeeds of one family, using documents in The National Archives and elsewhere. The tale involves deception, divorce, and the deliberate destruction of official records. Although the main narrative concerns one man, Captai | 12/9/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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They gave the crowd plenty fun | West Indian cricket and its relationship with the British-resident Caribbean Diaspora. 'They gave the crowd plenty fun' is a lucid study of the impact of West Indian cricket on those of Caribbean birth and descent in Britain. It traces the relationship be | 12/6/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writer of the month: witches, sorcery, scandal and seduction in Jacobean England | This talk describes the events which unfolded at Belvoir Castle four hundred years ago, during the witch craze. It is a tale of superstition, injustice and conspiracy. Dr Tracy Borman is an author, historian and broadcaster, whose books include the highly | 12/2/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An introduction to the eighth tranche of colonial administration records released at The National Archives | Diplomatic and Colonial Records Specialist David Gilfoyle introduces the eighth and final tranche of files, now available on site at The National Archives, Kew. The National Archives has been working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to trans | 11/29/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Searching the unsearchable | Colour, pattern and texture are all 'content' but are not searchable like written text. This talk discusses how exploiting digital technology to enhance both access and preservation of the image-rich Board of Trade Design Register could open up the record | 11/25/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Treaty of Utrecht | The Treaty of Utrecht, agreed in the spring of 1713, brought an end to the tired War of the Spanish Succession which had raged through much of the western world for the previous 11 years. The antagonists in this wide conflict - France and the French party | 11/22/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Coronations | References in the public records to coronations date back to the late 12th century spanning almost the entire length of continuous records held in The National Archives. Initially, the records simply provided financial information or a note that a new kin | 11/19/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Death and taxes: understanding the death duty registers | For over 100 years, from 1796 to 1903, the Inland Revenue maintained a series of registers recording the payments of death duties. These registers are now held by The National Archives and represent one of family history's best kept secrets. This talk loo | 11/15/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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William Hardin Burnley and Caribbean slavery | William Hardin Burnley, the biggest slave owner in Trinidad, did everything in his power to prevent the emancipation of Africans in the colony. When slavery ended, he was convinced that only Africans who had tyrannical masters would benefit from emancipat | 11/12/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big data and dead criminals | Tim Hitchcock discusses work to make complex trial accounts fully searchable by key word and location on The Old Bailey Online. | 10/14/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Living in a railway town | Di Drummond describes the experience of living in railway towns during the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly focussing on Crewe between 1840-1914. | 10/11/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Intimate History of Your Home | Lucy Worsley discusses the writing of If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of your Home. | 9/29/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An introduction to the seventh tranche of colonial administration records released at The National Archives | This release contains records from Cyprus, Malta, Singapore, Southern Rhodesia, Swaziland and Tanganyika. | 9/27/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The life and work of MacDonald Gill: mapmaker, letterer and graphic artist | MacDonald Gill's great-niece Caroline Walker discusses the artist's life and work | 9/24/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Suddenly, All Roads Led to Munich, 1936 - why I wrote Winter Games | Rachel Johnson discusses the writing of Winter Games | 9/20/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yapton: a Sussex parish seen through the census and parish records | Dr Tony Wakeford looks beyond the names recorded in the parish registers and census records, which can contain a wealth of information that can help to define the changing nature and origins of parish populations | 9/13/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tracing your merchant seamen ancestors through crew lists and agreements | Janet Dempsey tells the remarkable story of Merchant Navy records, the work that is being done to make them more accessible and how they could help you discover your ancestors | 9/6/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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There and back again: going away doesn't mean staying away | As more and more records are indexed online, you may find family members in unexpected places, and as a result discover that your 'stay at home' ancestors were more well-travelled than you thought. | 9/3/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The truth about The Great Train Robbery of 1963 | In this talk, Peter Guttridge explores the truth about The Great Train Robbery of 1963. | 8/20/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thomas Armstrong: the smuggler king of Cullercoats | In this talk, Dr Nick Barratt tells the amazing story of Captain Thomas Armstrong, an upstanding, if sometimes over-zealous member of HM Customs service, as well as highlighting the records as a rich source of 18th century family, local and social history | 8/16/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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At the Instigation of the Devil: suicide and its records | In this talk Dr Kathleen Chater takes a look at how our ancestors regarded suicide and what records will help us discover more | 8/12/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Locating London's wartime past: www.bombsight.org | In this talk Dr Catherine Emma Jones take an inside look at the Bomb Sight project and how it was developed. | 8/9/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Writing a history of one's own times | Professor Peter Hennessy talks about writing a history of ones own times as part of the Writer of the Month series | 8/6/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cars and democracy: British trusteeship of Volkswagen 1945 to 1949 | This talk gives an overview of British policy and the decisions relating to the Volkswagenwerk GmbH, and today's Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft. | 8/1/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New files from 1983 | Contemporary records specialists Mark Dunton and Simon Demissie discuss highlights from the latest batch of government files released to The National Archives. | 7/29/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An introduction to the sixth tranche of colonial administration records released at The National Archives | Diplomatic and Colonial Records Specialist Daniel Gilfoyle outlines the files released in this tranche of colonial administration records. | 7/29/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Church and the propaganda of political reform in 13th century England | This talk explores churchmen in the 13th century contributed to the politicisation of English society. | 7/25/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No (inter)sex please, we're Olympians | Dr Louise Chambers focuses on the history of gender testing in sports, as well as raising awareness of issues that affect people who are labelled as intersex | 7/19/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The secret listeners | Sinclair McKay chronicles the history and achievements of the remarkable 'Y' (for 'Wireless') Service organisation and the people who worked for it. | 7/12/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Three generations of master mariners | In this talk Len Holder explores the maritime roots of his family. | 7/5/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Join up and see the world! British military recruitment after national service | This talk looks at the different ways the British armed forces sold itself to potential recruits as a career from 1963 to 1980, and how those varied across the service branches of land, sea and air. | 6/28/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In conversation with Dominic Sandbrook | A session in conversation with Dominic Sandbrook, talking about his recent book, Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979 | 6/24/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Design online: extending access to the BT Design Register | This talk focuses on recent research linked to widening online access the Board of Trade Design Register | 6/17/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The subversion of Cheddi Jagan: the Cold War in British Guiana, 1953-64 | The talk explores the role of ethnic (Indian, African, Portuguese), ideological and religious factors in the shaping of the anti-communist crusade in British Guiana. | 6/10/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brick walls and lost ancestors | This talk shows that everyone left a paper trail and that its almost always possible to find it | 6/3/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An A-Z of Interesting Things about Elizabethan England | Ian Mortimer started his career as a poet, then qualified as an archivist and later became a historian and a novelist. | 5/28/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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William Wallace's rising and execution, and Edward I's conquest of Scotland | The period of crisis in Scotland following the death of Alexander III, and leading to the eventual conquest by Edward I, still excites controversy and discussion, not least about the role of William Wallace. | 5/24/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19 | Jatinder Mann outlines the main features of a research project studying historically significant Australian and British documents and explores the research process. | 5/10/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Journey's End Battalion: The 9th East Surrey and R C Sherriff in the Great War | Michael Lucas and Andrew Lucas investigate the experiences of playwright RC Sherriff, writer of Journey's End, with the 9th East Surrey Battalion in the First World War. | 5/3/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Children of Henry VIII | John Guy tells the story of the family drama of England's wealthiest and most powerful king. | 4/29/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hillsborough: the tangled web | Christine Gifford discusses the work and challenges of the Hillsborough Independent Panel. | 4/26/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A system of spies and informers: intelligence gathering in the period 1780-1830 | Using the records of the Home Office, this podcast focuses on just how the government kept up to date intelligence on the various threats without a recognised police force or centralised government agency. | 4/19/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hearth Tax: an introduction | Paul Carlyle looks at records held at The National Archives on this controversial and unpopular tax. | 4/12/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The post-Restoration army: 1660-1714 | Reader Adviser Ralph Thompson follows the history of the army from its inception as a standing force after the overthrow of the English republic through its increasing professionalisation during the War of the Spanish Succession. | 4/5/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Authority, Legitimacy and Orthodoxy: the Accession of Henry V in 1413 | Using documents in The National Archives, James Ross explores the troubled times of Henry's accession and reveals a man very different to Shakespeare's picture of a playboy prince. | 3/28/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stalingrad and Berlin: researching the reality of war | Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad, Berlin: the Downfall and The Battle for Spain, discusses his experience of researching the reality of war. | 3/25/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Embarrassing Question: Opium, Britain and China 1856-1860 | What part did opium play in the war between Britain and China from 1856 to 1860? Caroline Dawson uses records held at The National Archives and elsewhere to investigate. | 3/22/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The policy agenda of the British Government, 1945-2008 | Peter John discusses the shifts in government policy since 1945, as well as the importance of public opinion and the role of the media. | 3/15/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Challenges facing The National Archives - Part 3 | Podcast of a third interview between Dr Andrew Foster from the Historical Association and member of The National Archives' Strategic Academic Stakeholder Forum and Oliver Morley, Chief Executive and Keeper, The National Archives, which took place on 11 Fe | 3/11/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Final Whistle: the Great War in 15 players - a London rugby club at war 1914-1918 | Stephen Cooper tells the remarkable story of his search for rugby club members who fell in the Great War. | 3/8/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to publish with The National Archives | Dr Hester Vaizey from the in-house Publishing Team explains benefits of working in partnership with The National Archives and offers guidance on how to put together a book proposal for submission. | 3/7/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to research a famous person in The National Archives | Records expert Mark Dunton uses a case study of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to explain how to research a famous person in The National Archives. | 3/7/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to mine The National Archives for writing fiction | Historian Dr Katherine Mair reveals how you can unlock a wealth of inspiration held within our documents, including social and cultural details in government records. | 3/7/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What happened before today's mutual Credit Unions? An introduction to Friends of Labour Loan Societies 1850s-1930s | Sean Creighton outlines the history of loan societies, drawing on material from The National Archives and elsewhere. | 3/1/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reckless, Rash and Repentant: Convicts Petitions for Mercy 1819-1858 | A look at the pardoning process of the early 19th century, and some stories behind the petitions for mercy written on behalf of convicted criminals, found at The National Archives. | 2/22/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hunting for Spies in The National Archives | In our first Writer of the Month talk, Times journalist Ben Macintyre talks about his latest book Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies and how he turned his research into a published work. | 2/15/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Will Forgeries: a forgotten sensation | Audrey Collins tells the story of the crimes that shocked the nation in the 1840s, when a gang used identity theft and fraud to steal money from dormant accounts in the Bank of England. | 2/8/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tracing battalions or regiments of the British Army during the Great War | Listen to an introduction to the various records at The National Archives that can be used to trace the experiences of individual Battalions or Regiments during The Great War. | 2/1/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rawdon Brown and the Brown Archive in The National Archives | Dr John Law reveals the rich, but sadly under-explored resource of the Brown Archive - holding records of 19th century Venetian resident and expert Rawdon Brown. | 1/25/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Where there's a will...: probate records for family history at The National Archives and beyond | This talk will look at PCC wills and other probate records at The National Archives and elsewhere, providing an introduction to finding a will and identifying related records. | 1/18/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Brilliant Little Operation: The full story of how the Cockleshell Heroes mounted the greatest raid of WW2 | Lord Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, discusses how the Cockleshell Heroes mounted the greatest raid of the Second World War. | 1/11/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geography, art and the sinking of the Mary Rose | This talk brings together Tudor art, geography, history and archaeology to better understand the sinking of the Mary Rose almost 500 years ago. | 1/4/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bess of Hardwick | An exploration of the countess of Shrewsbury, known as 'Bess of Hardwick', through a web of correspondence. | 12/21/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The scandalous case of John Vassall: sexuality, spying and the Civil Service | Mark Dunton examines evidence surrounding civil servant John Vassall, imprisoned for espionage. | 12/17/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tracing Huguenot ancestors | This talk will help you find out if your Huguenot ancestors fled religious persecution in the Low Countries or France between the 16th and 18th centuries. | 12/14/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The strange journey of Edward Swarthye, an African in Elizabethan England: from the Spanish Caribbean to rural Gloucestershire | The strange journey of Edward Swarthye, an African in Elizabethan England: from the Spanish Caribbean to rural Gloucestershire | 12/7/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Morbidity and mortality on convict voyages to 19th century Australia | Exploring the impact of trans-oceanic forced removal on the health and well being of migrants. | 11/30/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adlestrop: railways, poetry and the myths of 1914 | A look at the facts behind Adlestrop, one of the nation's favourite poems, along with the literary and military career of poet Edward Thomas. | 11/23/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marjorie's War: four families and the Great War | The story of nine young men from four families who fought in all the major battles of the British Army on the Western Front from 1915 onwards. | 11/16/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Archives Sector: the Leadership Challenge | This talk will explain The National Archives vision for leadership of archives in England, review our achievements to date, and explore some of the challenges ahead. | 11/9/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tracing marriages; legal requirements and actual practice, 1700-1836 | Based upon studies of thousands of couples, this podcast explains how, when and where people in past centuries married. | 11/2/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Keeping it in the family: professional dynasties in 19th century England | This podcast demonstrates how online genealogical tools and social media generated by family historians themselves, along with records held at The National Archives, can be used to create detailed family histories that bring us closer than ever before to | 10/26/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Remembering Samuel Coleridge Taylor; African British musician and pan-Africanist | A presentation on the life of one of Britain's favourite composers of the early 20th century and the first African to conduct an all-European orchestra. | 10/19/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Philip Henslowe, Edward Alleyn and the invention of London theatre in the age of Shakespeare | Most of what modern scholars know about the early modern English theatre comes from the study of the Henslowe and Alleyn manuscripts at Dulwich College. This podcast looks at documents from the archive, now digitised at www.henslowe-alleyn.org.uk. | 10/12/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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British Malaya | Diplomatic and Colonial Records Specialist Dr Dan Gilfoyle discusses some of the stand-out images from the Colonial Office Library's photographic collection. | 9/28/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn: clothing, courtship and consequences | This talk draws on a range of documents in the collection of The National Archives to explore the clothing choices of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. | 9/20/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Coroners' Inquests | This talk reveals how coroners' inquests can provide a wealth of information for family historians | 8/17/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The life of Philip d'Auvergne RN; officer, prisoner and prince | Follow the story of Philip d'Auvergne RN through official records covering the period from the American war of independence to the fall of Napoleon. | 8/10/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'An impenetrable tangle or an under-used mine of information?' The Court of Common Pleas and its records, c.1200-1875 | James Ross provides an introduction to the history of Common Pleas, its jurisdiction, and discusses ways into the numerous records of the court. | 8/3/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Colonial lives, careers and policies: researching printed papers of the British colonial governments | This podcast outlines the content of the printed papers from the first half of the 19th century to the end of empire. | 7/27/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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England and Scotland at War, 1296-1513: sources at The National Archives | This podcast highlights the hostility between England and her northern neighbour during much of the medieval period. | 7/23/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Magna Carta: What more is there to say? | Professor Nicholas Vincent is based at the University of East Anglia and is a leading authority on the world of Magna Carta. | 7/13/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Silken Paper Trail: openness and the national collective memory | Professor the Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield and Professor Lisa Jardine CBE consider why 'sustaining the collective memory of the nation is a first-order requirement.' | 7/9/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edwardian rollerskating | Between 1908 and 1912 interest in roller skating rose, boomed and declined. | 7/3/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sedition, transportation and treason | How did a small group of men discussing democracy in the coffee houses of London of 1792 lead to one of the most sensational treason trials of the eighteenth century? | 6/27/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lost in London | Dave Annal explains how to make the most out of London's diverse collection of records. | 6/22/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tracing merchant seamen, 1857-1918 | This podcast looks at what records there are for this period, how to access them and what work is being done to make this period more accessible. | 6/14/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Golden Stool: cataloguing Colonial Office records from 1900 | Four volunteer cataloguers share interesting finds from Colonial Office records from 1900. | 5/25/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Medieval queens in The National Archives | Dr Jessica Nelson explores the role of the queen in medieval England, using records held at The National Archives. | 5/11/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Selling history: the role of the past at Fortnum and Mason | Dr Andrea Tanner, keeper of the company memory at Fortnum and Mason, discusses the role of the past in ensuring sustainability and growth. | 5/4/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digging for diamonds: hidden histories at The National Archives | This talk focuses on the histories that are harder to find at The National Archives, exploring the issues and problems involved and the work being done to resolve them. | 4/27/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An introduction to the first tranche of colonial administration records released at The National Archives | Following the release of the first tranche of records on 18 April, Principal Records Specialist Dr Edward Hampshire discusses the origins of the 'migrated archives' and explains how to get the most out of your research. | 4/19/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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United Kingdom Archives Discovery forum 2012 keynote talk | Keynote talk from the UKAD 2012 forum, delivered by Bill Thompson from the BBC. | 4/13/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When sport meets the law | This talk uses records of the law courts and government departments to describe the uneasy relationship between sport and the law, covering various sports including football, cricket, golf and horse racing. | 4/5/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Business Archives: new initiatives and developments | This podcast looks at the background to company archives and the recent development of national strategies to promote business archives more widely. | 3/30/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'There is no aspect of government activity on which the State Papers may not throw light': the papers of the secretaries of sta | This talk gives an overview of state papers and the State Papers Office, and looks at what resources are available for research. | 3/22/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Digitised newspapers as sources for family history | This talk gives listeners a demonstration, using practical examples, of the recently launched British Newspapers Archive (BNA). | 3/19/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Finding your family in Canada | Researching in Canada is vastly different than researching in the UK. This talk gives an overview of record keeping in Canada, how the records are organised, and where to find them. | 3/9/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Our ancestors and the fear of the Victorian workhouse | In 1834 the British government introduced the Poor Law Amendment Act (the introduction of the 'Workhouse System'). This was one of the most important pieces of 19th century social legislation and it touched the lives of millions of ordinary men, women and | 3/6/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tithe tales: what the Tithe Survey records tell us about early Victorian place and society | Rose Mitchell shows how Survey maps and records can reveal a wealth of information about people and place in Victorian society. | 3/2/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The British Red Cross and its archives | This talk outlines the history of the British Red Cross and shows how this has left a record in the archive collection. | 2/27/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Prison hulks | Jeff James discusses the records that reveal the dreadful reality of life on board prison hulks for the men, women and children detained on them. | 2/24/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Necessity, the mother of invention: Britain's response to the demands of total war 1939-1945 | A discussion on British invention and innovation during the Second World War | 2/20/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MI5 file release February 2012 | Professor Christopher Andrew, official historian of MI5, introduces highlights from the 28th Security Service records release to The National Archives. | 2/16/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The last slave market: Dr John Kirk and the struggle to end the African slave trade | In the mid-19th century, the Zanzibar slave market was notorious as the last place on earth where human beings could still be bought and sold. | 2/15/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nineteenth century merchant seafarers and their records | Specialist knowledge of merchant seafaring is a boon when identifying men and women and interpreting their lives in one of the most sophisticated 19th and early 20th century sources increasingly used by family history researchers. | 1/31/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Researching Mr Briggs' Hat: an account of Britain's first railway murder | The examination of documents reveals how the 1864 murder of Thomas Briggs caused a sensation in Victorian society | 1/27/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No vote no census | The National Archives held a one day conference at Kew on Saturday 1 October 2011. The conference brought together an audience wanting to know more about the census, from genealogists to local and social historians. | 1/24/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How a chisel, a mule, a shipping container and a cloud contribute to family history | A thought-provoking journey through thousands of years of development of family history record keeping and record preservation. | 1/20/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Henry III Fine Rolls | Professor David Carpenter explores what light these records can shed on the reign of Henry III, and how people can use the fine rolls resource in their own research. | 1/13/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anxiety, dread and disease: British ports 1834-1870 | Sarah Hutton examines the effect of disease on settled and transient port communities in 19th century Britain. | 1/9/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sovereign squire rebel | At the age of five years, Duleep Singh found himself on the golden throne of the Punjab, one of the most powerful independent kingdoms in India and a thorn in the advancement of the British Empire. After the Sikh Wars against the British Empire, the infan | 1/6/2012 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New files from 1981 | An overview of newly-released government files from 1981 including discussion of the major stories of the year. From urban riots and IRA hunger strikes to splits in Cabinet over economic policy, 1981 was an extremely challenging year for Mrs Thatcher's Co | 12/29/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Preparing the 1911 census for digitisation | A look at all aspects of the census and at what this rich source of information can tell us about our ancestors and society through the ages. | 12/22/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When a woman is not a woman: how the Ministry of Pensions constructed gender in the 1950s | Dr Louise Chambers investigates why, in the 1950s, the Ministry of Pensions was inundated with requests by individuals to change their gender identity on their employment and pension records. | 12/16/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Untold histories: black Britons during the period of the British slave trade, c. 1660-1807 | Dr Chater's talk challenges commonly held assumptions that have been made about the lives of black Britons during the period of the British slave trade. | 12/12/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Making geographical sense of the census | A look at all aspects of the census and at what this rich source of information can tell us about our ancestors and society through the ages. | 11/29/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'A low artful wicked man': poverty riots and bread, the response of government to the crises of the 1790s | A look at how the government of the 1790s attempted to address both food shortages and the riots that broke out as real want and scarcity took hold in many districts. | 11/25/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Exploding the mysteries of the Bomb Census | Andrew Janes explains how you can research details of Second World War bombing incidents using the Ministry of Home Security"s Bomb Census. | 11/4/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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20th century Treasury records | Mark Dunton gives a historical overview of HM Treasury, before moving to an outline of the main sources, supported by some interesting document examples. | 10/31/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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English burial and cemetery records online and on film | This talk gives an overview of online sources for English burial and cemetery records, including which of the major London cemeteries have online records. | 10/24/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No place for ladies: the untold story of women in the Crimean War | Helen Rappaport sheds new light on the many unsung women who followed the British army on campaign - the last time they were allowed to do so. | 10/21/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The 1911 Census: a vision of England | In this talk, David Annal introduces the 1911 census and shows what it reveals about society at the time. | 10/14/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Textile designs 1842-1964: exploring the Board of Trade Representations and Registers | This talk focuses on a unique archive of design registers and textiles, which include woven and printed cloth, trimmings and lace, as well as stevenographs, gloves, socks, sashes and even two straw bonnets. | 10/7/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Hong Kong colonial cemetery | The National Archives provides a treasure trove of material for discovering more about our colonial ancestors. This talk focuses on the former British Colony of Hong Kong. | 10/5/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Out of the way of mischief | The experiences of 19th and early 20th century school children. | 9/28/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Science and sustainability | Science and sustainability in cultural heritage: building a resilient future for The National Archives. | 9/16/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Berlin Wall 1961: the construction 50 years on | The National Archives’ Karim Hussain discusses the circumstances which brought about the construction of the Berlin wall, what it meant for Germany and the crisis it precipitated in the context of the Cold War. | 9/9/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Railways and the mobilisation for war in 1914 | The historian A.J.P Taylor, considering the events of 1914, once argued: 'The First World War had begun - imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. | 8/30/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MI5 file release August 2011 | Professor Christopher Andrew introduces the 27th Security Service records release containing 171 files, bringing the total number of Security Service records at The National Archives to more than 4,896. | 8/25/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Time travel: a journey through the timetables of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway 1860-1901 | A look beyond the day-to-day purpose of railway timetables, to consider how they reveal changes to mobility in the 19th century. | 8/19/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Galaxy Zoo and old weather: exploring the potential of citizen science | A discussion on the potential of citizen science and 'crowdsourcing' for large digital collections. | 8/12/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Morale, morality and the Liverpool Blitz | Documents from The National Archives and elsewhere are used to reveal the steps that the wartime government took to measure the morale of residents facing some of the heaviest bombing of the Second World War. | 8/5/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Land Tax 1692- 1963 | Mark Pearsall looks at the operation of the land tax, redemption, and the work of the Land Tax Redemption Office and its surviving records in series IR 20 to IR 25. | 8/1/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nineteenth century soldiers: getting the most from online resources | An explanation of the intricacies of soldiers' service records online, in record series WO 97. | 7/15/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The battle of Towton - a 550-year retrospective | This talk introduces the biggest battle of the Wars of the Roses, described as 'The largest, longest, bloodiest and most murderous battle ever fought in Britain'. | 7/15/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Overseas births, marriages and deaths | A look at civilian and military registers kept by British authorities, churches, consulates and other bodies abroad. | 7/8/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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1611-2011: The 400th anniversary of the King James Bible | This talk examines the context of the translation of the King James Bible and considers the extent of King James' involvement in its production. | 7/1/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The last thing we need is a sequel: Postwar cinema at The National Archives | Speaker Jo Pugh explores the British government's sometimes uneasy relationship with the film industry, shedding light on four decades of cinema history. | 6/24/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Suing and being sued - finding people in legal disputes | This talk covers the period from the mid-17th century to the present day and uses individual cases to explain the different legal courts and types of cases they heard. | 6/17/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Metropolitan Police: an introduction to records of service 1829-1958 | A basic guide, using examples, to the surviving records of service for Metropolitan Police officers, and an overview of the origins of the service. | 6/10/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Behind the scenes: two centuries of census-taking | This talk takes a look at the army of civil servants, temporary clerks, registrars, enumerators and others, and the part they played in this astonishing feat of organisation once a decade. | 6/3/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Modelling for decision-making: simulating the building environment | This talk summarises the outcomes of the Building Environment Simulation (BES) project and discusses next steps in the care of the collection of The National Archives. | 5/27/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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'Revolting to humanity': histories of mental health | Records specialist Sarah Hutton discusses the 19th century shift in the way mental health was viewed. | 5/20/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Inheritance in Scotland - testaments and retours | The University of Strathclyde's Dr Bruce Durie conducts a guided tour of Scottish testaments, or 'wills'. | 5/13/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Second World War and Roche's expansion to the West: a Swiss pharmaceutical company in the United Kingdom | Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche's expansion in the UK in the early 20th century. | 5/9/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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From crime to punishment: criminal records of our ancestors from the 18th and 19th centuries | This podcast takes researchers through the various stages of the criminal justice system of the period and focusses on the various records created, from the commission of a crime, through the court processes and on to the records of punishment. | 4/21/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Festival of Britain | The Festival of Britain opened on 3 May 1951. It was a summer-long, nationwide festival celebrating Britain's contribution to civilisation past, present and future, in the arts, in science and in industrial design. | 4/13/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Escape and evasion in Occupied Europe | Alan Bowgen discusses the resourcefulness and courage of British servicemen who escaped from Axis Prisoner of War camps during the Second World War. | 4/8/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MI5 file release April 2011 | Professor Christopher Andrew introduces the 26th Security Service records release, which contains 180 files. The records cover a range of subjects and span the inter-war, Second World War and post-war eras. | 4/4/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Heralds and heraldry at The National Archives | This lecture examines evidence stretching back over eight and a half centuries: seals, illuminated manuscripts, medieval rolls, treaties, grants of arms, state occasions, architectural drawings, military badges and even wooden chests. | 3/25/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sources for agricultural labourers | 'It's all too easy to fall into the trap of thinking that agricultural labourers are boring and that you can't trace anything about them. In fact they can be very interesting, and there's lots of information to be found if you know where to look. This tal | 3/11/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In the High Court of Justice | 'In the High Court of Justice' examines the records of the Chancery Division of the High Court (the post-1875 successor of the Chancery Court). This talk will show what is available and how to find your way around the documents. | 3/4/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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UFO file release March 2011 | Dr David Clarke, author of 'The UFO files' and senior lecturer in Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, reveals the importance of the latest batch of UFO files to be released by The National Archives. | 3/3/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Broadmoor Revealed: the Victorian Asylum | Mark Stevens takes a journey behind the walls of Victorian Broadmoor, England’s first Criminal Lunatic Asylum, and discovers some of the patients’ stories. | 2/25/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Constance Emily Kent: nightdresses, breast flannels and child murder | Documents from The National Archives shed light on a sensational murder from 1860. | 2/11/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fictional obscenities: lesbianism and censorship in the early 20th century | Drawing on early 20th century case studies, Dr Chambers discusses the banning of novels whose narratives featured same sex relations between women. | 2/7/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Journeys of discovery: surgeons at sea - ADM 101 Research Symposium | Professor Laurence Brockliss, from the University of Oxford, discusses how ADM 101 has been used by his team over the past ten years, and considers how the newly digitised files will aid their future research. This talk was recorded as part of 'The journe | 1/28/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Damaged, disturbed and dismembered: disability and war in the 20th century | Wars in the 20th century have been responsible for the deaths of millions of people. Still more come back from conflict with permanent disabilities, in body and mind, in need of medical treatment, on-going care and financial support. Drawing on the wide r | 1/24/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Titanic: the official story | This talk marks the ninty-eighth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Using documents from The National Archives, James Cronan will take you through the history of the ship, from its construction and launch to its fateful end. James Cronan is a reco | 1/19/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Challenges facing The National Archives | Podcast of an interview which took place on Monday 29 November 2010. Dr Andrew Foster from the Historical Association and also a member of The National Archives Strategic Academic Stakeholder Forum in conversation with Oliver Morley, Acting Chief Executiv | 1/14/2011 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New files from 1980 | An introduction to newly released files from 1980, covering subjects such as economic policy, the European Community Budget, relations with trade unions, the Iranian Embassy siege and the potential boycott of the Moscow Olympics. These files provide a fas | 12/29/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Naval medical officers' journals and the history of medicine | Author Daniel Gilfoyle discusses the naval medical officers' journals of ADM 101 provide a coherent view of the beliefs and practices of a body of rank and file medical practitioners during the late 18th and 19th centuries. They provide a valuable source | 12/17/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Madame Rachel of Bond Street | Author Helen Rappaport discusses the subject of her newest book, Beautiful For Ever: Madame Rachel of Bond Street - Cosmetician, Con-Artist and Blackmailer. In the talk, Helen reveals Madame Rachel's startling career path - from fish fryer in Clare Market | 12/10/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Cabinet Papers 1915-1979 | This talk explores how anyone with an interest in modern history can get the best out of the Cabinet Papers online resource, which provides access to historical records of the key episodes in 20th century British and international history. The talk also l | 12/3/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hidden Women: uncovering the veil of silence during the partition of Punjab, India 1947 | Dr Pippa Virdee of De Montfort University uncovers the hidden voices of Muslim women during the partition of the Punjab, India in 1947. Using first-hand accounts, Dr Virdee reveals how women, often sheltered from private and public spaces, created their o | 11/29/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers' service documents | Military records specialist William Spencer talks about WO 97, one of The National Archives' most popular record series. This series holds detailed and comprehensive military records of over 1.5 million soldiers who served in the British Army between 1760 | 11/15/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Forgotten tragedy: The loss of HMT Lancastria | On 17 June 1940, HMT Lancastria was sunk by a German bomber while evacuating troops from St Nazaire; over 9,000 troops were packed on board. This talk attempts to explain why so many who were lost will never be accounted for. | 11/5/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Credit crunch histories: records of bankrupts in The National Archives | Bankruptcy proceedings have been taking place in England and Wales for over 400 years. In this talk, Chris Cooper describes the bankruptcy records for England and Wales held by The National Archives, indicating the best ways of researching them, and refer | 10/22/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Freedom fighters: sources for black loyalists at The National Archives | Abi Husainy reveals the African American contribution to the American revolution, using documents and concrete examples found in The National Archives. | 10/15/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A history of the Public Records Office | Vanessa Carr takes us through a brief history of the Public Records Office, looking at public records from 1086 to 2003. | 10/8/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charles Dickens, Warren's Blacking and the Chancery Court | At the age of 12, the delicate and genteelly brought up Charles Dickens was plunged into employment in a boot-blacking factory, while his father was incarcerated in Marshalsea debtors' prison. These events traumatised the young Dickens, and greatly influe | 10/1/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Kitchen Front: domestic life in the Second World War | Find out how documents held by The National Archives can reveal a fascinating picture of the domestic lives of ordinary people living through the Second World War. | 9/24/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The first Afghan war | In this talk, journalist and historian Jules Stewart will guide us through the 1838-1842 period of Afghan history. Just some of the events explored include the Persian siege of Herat with Russian assistance, which Britain feared would lead to an invasion | 9/17/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sailors, storms and science: how Royal Navy logbooks help us understand climate change | Dr Dennis Wheeler, from the University of Sunderland, discusses the use of historical Royal Navy logbooks in studies of climate change, focusing on the archival resources rather than scientific conclusions. | 9/10/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Catch-up history and the Cold War | Professor Peter Hennessy, Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary, London University, and author of The Secret State, examines the 'particles and patterns of the past' to peer into the part of the post-war British state kept under wra | 9/3/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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MI5 file release August 2010 | Professor Christopher Andrew introduces the 25th Security Service records release, which contains 170 files, bringing the total number of its records in the public domain to more than 4,500. | 8/25/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alcohol Consumption in Historical Perspective | Dr Phil Withington discusses how historical research - even on the early-modern period - can be used to inform contemporary policymaking on alcohol consumption. | 8/20/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reforming Central Government: The case of science and technology | Professor David Edgerton considers Churchill's approach to science and technology during World War Two and looks at his relationship with the 'Cronies and Technocrats' of the time. | 8/18/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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UFO file release August 2010 | Dr David Clarke, author of The UFO files and senior lecturer in Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, reveals the importance of the latest batch of UFO files to be released by The National Archives. | 8/5/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tourists and booking clerks - information for family historians in the Thomas Cook Archives | Paul Smith, company archivist of Thomas Cook UK & Ireland, offers a general account of the holdings of the Thomas Cook Archives, with particular reference to records that might prove useful for family historians, such as staff magazines, contracts of empl | 7/30/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Treaties in The National Archives | James Cronan introduces some of the most richly decorated and important documents held at The National Archives. | 7/23/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The pub and the people | Simon Fowler use contemporary accounts to look back at the pub 'experience' over the last 70 years. | 7/16/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Disclosure, documentary release and candour in government | Jonathan Sumption OBE QC considers the issue of government secrecy throughout English history in his lecture to the Friends of The National Archives. | 7/9/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The South African empire | Historian Dr Anne Samson explores South Africa's attempt to build an empire over the past century. | 7/7/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Identity and identity theft | Steve Hindle of the University of Warwick shows how contemporary issues relating to international migration were also present in 17th century parish migration. | 7/2/2010 | Free | View In iTunes |
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sahib, the british soldier in India 1750-1914
I love the content of this podcast as well as other podcasts I have listened. However, the archives needs to learn to correctly mic its guest speakers. I tend to listen to the podcast with headphones, so the constant pops and distortions from poor mic-ing is MADDENING! Again content is brilliant but the sound quality disappointing
British social history and detailed genealogical information
This podcast will be of particular interest to people researching ancestors who emigrated from Britain. Many of the podcasts present very detailed information on where genealogical information might be located including some very difficult records such as births, marriages, and deaths at sea. In addition, some podcasts are devoted to social history topics - the Workhouse episode was rather depressing, but extremely interesting and full of the sort of detail which makes it easy to imagine the desperate conditions which existed for certain members of society and allows us to place ancestors in the context of the times in which they lived.
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