The National Archives Podcast Series

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Portillo's State Secrets

Researcher Tommy Norton introduces some of the 30 documents featured in the BBC 2 ten-part...

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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...

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Tracing railway ancestors

The National Archives holds a vast collection of railway related material, a legacy passed down...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Newly released files from 1985 and 1986

Contemporary records specialists Mark Dunton and Simon Demissie discuss the latest batch of...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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