History & Heritage
A love story that threatened the Commonwealth: Seretse...
Discover the marriage that caused a diplomatic storm at the end of the 1940s. The...
Celebrating the Contributions of Women of Color in Women’s...
By Kim-Ling Sun from BestColleges. Women's history hasn't always included the voices...
Introduction to conservation for digitisation
The National Archives digitises over 40,000 records every year. Who prepares them?...
Accroaching royal power in 1380s London: The downfall of...
Explore the downfall of a key figure of 1380s London, a period characterised by...
The Bag of Secrets
What is the 'Bag of Secrets' and how did it come to exist? The post The Bag of Secrets...
Local studies at The National Archives and beyond
We reflect on the practice of local studies and highlight the launch of a new support...
‘You don’t understand our love’: Lady Austin’s camp boys
Discover London's queer parties of the 1930s, and how the police persecuted these...
Treason against the state: America declares independence
Explore how and why America declared independence from Great Britain, and where...
The many misfortunes of an Irish merchant in Tenerife,...
Three remarkable letters written in May 1744 survive at The National Archives, which...
Treason against the State: the execution of Charles I
Levying war against the Crown was one of the key treasonable offences defined by...
Remembering the Gross-Rosen concentration camp
Warning: This blog post contains distressing text and images. Friday 27 January...
The Royal Vauxhall Tavern: Raided
Content warning: This blog post references homophobic attitudes and the historic...
Out on the Street: Investigating Fact or Fiction
Jane Golding from the British Association for Local History explores how the 1921...
‘Compassing and imagining’: magic and civil war
In this series of blogs the curators of our current exhibition – Treason: People,...
‘Compassing and imagining’: treasonous words
The crime of high treason, as first defined in law in 1352 and still on the statute...
Intersectional queer lives on the 1921 Census
Queer lives on the census are a minority, even more so when combined with other...
