The National Archives Podcast Series
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- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 544
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2022
Criminal ancestors: trial records at The National Archives
Nigel Taylor takes us through a short introduction into the records that can be used to trace criminal ancestors.
00:16:22 |
Thu 19 Jun 2008
Tracing pre-1914 army ancestors
Covering the period from 1760 to 1913, William Spencer discusses the service records of army officers and other ranks.
00:34:04 |
Thu 12 Jun 2008
1968: Year of revolutions
Mark Dunton takes you back in time to a tumultuous year, using key documents to show the British Government's take on the dramatic events of 1968, and its own particular preoccupations.
00:56:50 |
Thu 29 May 2008
UFO files from the UK Government
Listen to Dr David Clarke, an expert in UFO history, as he explains the significance of the released UFO files.
00:28:19 |
Thu 22 May 2008
Secrecy and government records
Professor Foot is a noted historian and academic. He is the official historian for the Second World War Special Operations Executive (SOE) and has an extensive knowledge of the background to the requ…
00:23:52 |
Thu 15 May 2008
Britain and the challenge of Fascism: saving Europe at a cost (Part 2)
In the second part of this two part podcast for A-Level students a chief examiner from one of the major examination boards discuss the British policy of appeasement towards the fascist regimes of Hit…
00:39:35 |
Tue 08 Apr 2008
Britain and the challenge of Fascism: saving Europe at a cost
How did Britons weigh up the decision to go to war in the 1930s and did things turn out as they expected? Professor David Stephenson from the London School of Economics and Political Science explains…
00:44:37 |
Tue 08 Apr 2008
Losing Orton in the archives
The tangled history of the papers of the playwright Joe Orton is unwoven by Dr Matt Cook. Here he reveals the extraordinary sources that survive on the writer's life, and the perhaps even more extrao…
00:43:02 |
Thu 13 Mar 2008
Security Service document releases
From astrologers to oil barons: Professor Christopher Andrew, official historian for the Security Service, talks about espionage and tracking enemy agents.
00:22:04 |
Fri 29 Feb 2008
The Navy Board project
Archivist Sue Lumas describes the painstaking cataloguing and conservation of naval records held at The National Archives.
00:13:51 |
Thu 21 Feb 2008
Watch the birdie and say 'cheese'
Conservator Stephen Harwood looks at the invention and development of photography, describing all the major photographic processes and explaining how anyone can identify different photographic types …
00:25:20 |
Thu 14 Feb 2008
Research and collections at The National Archives
Caroline Williams describes how the new Research and Collections Development department is contributing to The National Archives' research, collections and academic agenda, and its benefit internally…
00:12:27 |
Thu 31 Jan 2008
Closing the last day: death, memory and landholding in the Inquisitions Post-Mortem, 1216 - 1660
Sean Cunningham tells us how the Inquisitions Post-Mortem (IPMs) or inquests taken after the death of people who were tenants of The Crown reveal a great deal about land use, local customs, and how c…
00:09:56 |
Thu 17 Jan 2008
20th century Cabinet records: digitising a core collection of modern political records
Ed Hampshire discusses the Cabinet records digitisation project, explaining how the innermost records of government will soon be made fully available online and what visitors to the site can expect w…
00:10:56 |
Fri 04 Jan 2008
Sources for army officers' commissions
Mark Dunton looks at the system for purchasing and selling commissions as it worked from 1800 - 1871. He covers first appointments, promotions, exchanges, retirement, the payment process and the acti…
00:31:30 |
Thu 20 Dec 2007
The road to Jamestown - part 2
The second part of Sean Cunningham's talk about how and why English sailors and the English Crown turned their attention to the New World of America in the 16th century. This talk explores how piracy…
00:25:37 |
Thu 13 Dec 2007
The road to Jamestown - part 1
Sean Cunningham talks about how and why English sailors and the English Crown turned their attention to the New World of America in the 16th century. This talk explores how piracy, greed, religion an…
00:16:54 |
Thu 06 Dec 2007
The making of the Stalinist state 1928-1941 - part 2
The second part of this talk in which Dr Jane McDermid puts Joseph Stalin's Russia under the microscope from the first of the Five-Year Plans to the outbreak of the Second World War.
00:32:30 |
Thu 29 Nov 2007
The making of the Stalinist state 1928-1941 - part 1
Dr Jane McDermid puts Joseph Stalin's Russia under the microscope from the first of the Five-Year Plans to the outbreak of the Second World War.
00:19:34 |
Thu 22 Nov 2007
Modern sources for immigration - part 2
The second part of Roger Kershaw's talk looks at key immigration sources at The National Archives such as inwards passenger lists, certificates of arrival and alien registration cards.
00:32:30 |
Tue 13 Nov 2007
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