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The global datafication of economy, society and politics has rendered humans into constellations of datapoints. Technologies measure, monito...
The 1848-1849 cholera epidemic in England and Wales was described by a government report as if a ‘foreign army’ had ‘held...
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College, introduces...
In this talk to mark the latest volume of his epic history of post-war Britain, television presenter and best-selling author Dominic Sandbro...
Rebecca Gowers uncovered a fascinating story within her family tree – that of Harry Larkyns. She learnt that Harry was an attractive c...
Trevor Barnes is the author of a new study of one of the Cold War’s most notorious spy cases – the Portland Spy Ring. In this ‘M...
Opening up the electorate in 1918 to some women voters naturally triggered a conversation about female parliamentarians. Under the 1918 Parl...
In this ‘Meet the Author’ event (recorded over Zoom), Dermot Turing discusses his latest book, The Codebreakers of Bletchley Par...
The National Archives’ collections offer a valuable insight into how the government interacted with and viewed LGBTQ communities in the past...
What are the opportunities, and challenges, of working collaboratively with archivists, academics and community groups? The theme of this ye...
What are the opportunities, and challenges, of working collaboratively with archivists, academics and community groups? The theme of this ye...
What are the opportunities, and challenges, of working collaboratively with archivists, academics and community groups? The theme of this ye...
What are the opportunities, and challenges, of working collaboratively with archivists, academics and community groups? The theme of this ye...
What are the opportunities, and challenges, of working collaboratively with archivists, academics and community groups? The theme of this ye...
The one-day conference – ‘Manorial Documents: Past, present and into the future’ – took place at The National Archives on Tuesday 25 Septemb...
The one-day conference – ‘Manorial Documents: Past, present and into the future’ – took place at The National Archives on Tuesday 25 Septemb...
The one-day conference – ‘Manorial Documents: Past, present and into the future’ – took place at The National Archives on Tuesday 25 Septemb...
The one-day conference – ‘Manorial Documents: Past, present and into the future’ – took place at The National Archives on Tuesday 25 Septemb...
Matt Norman talks to Chrissy Peters about Discovery – the online catalogue for The National Archives and 2500 other archives. What is in Dis...
The census documents information about the population taken every ten years. How and when did the system start? Where can you find the recor...
Matt Norman talks to Keith Mitchell about civil registration – the system for recording births, marriages and deaths in the UK. How and when...
Matt Norman talks to Nigel Taylor about wills – the document used for centuries to control what happens to property when somebody dies. Who...
Matt Norman talks to Roger Kershaw about records relating to people that came to England and Wales from other countries to live and work. Wh...
Tutankhamun lay in his tomb undisturbed until 1922, when British archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron, Lord Carnarvon, reveale...
Despite having clear liberties and the protection of the Crown in the mid-12th century, the thriving Jewish communities of medieval England...
The National Archives’ Cold War season drew to a close in November with a series of events intended to whisk you back to the night of the fa...
Voices of the Windrush Generation: The real story told by the people themselves by David Matthews is a powerful collection of stories from t...
How do we know what we think we know about the past, and why do even the best historians occasionally get it wrong? In this talk Dr Ian Mort...
490 years ago Thomas Wolsey – King Henry VIII’s former favourite – fell from grace following his failure to secure the king a divorce. This...
Charlie Higson, author of the best-selling Young Bond books, discusses the genesis of 007 – James Bond, Ian Fleming’s life in the secret ser...
Arguably the most important ‘atomic’ spy of the 20th century, Klaus Fuchs was a German physicist who worked on the British and US-led atomic...
The East German Stasi had the reputation of being one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies ever to h...
Professor Christopher Andrew, formerly official historian of MI5 and author of 'The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5', in...
T E Lawrence’s role in the First World War is best remembered as that of a young, dashing officer leading the Arab Revolt in white billowing...
Fifty years ago, the Rolling Stones gave a concert in Hyde Park that turned into a memorial to founding member Brian Jones. It was an event...
The Ministry of Information was established by a government which recognised that the understanding and morale of the civilian population in...
In 1962, while working as a clerk in the British Embassy in Moscow, homosexual civil servant John Vassall was caught in a ‘honey trap’ sprun...
There is more to the Ministry of Defence UFO files than reports on strange sightings in the sky. They provide insight into the public’s perc...
John Dobai was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1934. To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, John delivered a talk at The National Archives on 25 Janu...
To enable people to explore a digital collection, the platform that hosts that collection needs to have a comprehensive understanding of the...
This presentation provides an overview of a project called ‘Records and ICT at the Boundaries of the State: Refugee Needs, Rights and Uses’...
In this talk Luciano Floridi presents new research on ‘semantic capital’, which he defines as the capital of ideas, knowledge, meaning and c...
Is linked data an appropriate technology for implementing an archive’s catalogue? Dr Jean-Luc Cochard from the Swiss Federal Archives presen...
The First World War had a great impact on West Africa, as Britain ordered the invasion of German colonies in Cameroon and Togoland, using it...
Victoria Lemieux examines how we can ensure and establish authenticity in a world of increasing datafication of records. Where and how do we...
Originally set up at the request of Winston Churchill, the Ministry of Defence’s UFO Desk ran for over 60 years, collating mysterious sighti...
By 1912, militancy associated with the Suffragette movement hit its peak, with regular arson attacks, window-smashing campaigns and targetin...
In this seminar, Professor Andrew Prescott explores the ways in which artistic practice can help us re-imagine the archive and the contents...
To mark forty years since The National Archives moved to Kew, our digital director John Sheridan discusses the challenges that archives will...