The National Archives Podcast Series

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The National Archives Podcast Series

The National Archives Podcast Series will remain live, but will not be updated with new content. For new podcasts from us head over to On the Record at The National Archives.

  1. 20/10/2022

    Trailer: On the Record at The National Archives

    Want to hear more from The National Archives? We'd like to introduce you to On the Record, a new podcast bringing old stories to life. Join our experts and special guests as we dig deep into the people behind the paper and bring fascinating stories from more than 11 million records to life. Discover tales of forbidden love, spies, protest and the everyday people of the past. Search for On the Record at The National Archives wherever you get your podcasts or visit https://pod.link/1460242815 The National Archives Podcast Series will remain live, but will not be updated with new content. For new podcasts from us head over to On the Record at The National Archives.

    1 min

  2. 02/02/2021

    Annual Digital Lecture 2020: The death of anonymity in the age of identity

    The global datafication of economy, society and politics has rendered humans into constellations of datapoints. Technologies measure, monitor, predict and classify to enable personalization in the online and offline worlds alike, and we are increasingly offered bespoke realities: advertising, healthcare, government services, and recommendations uniquely targeted to us. The price is persistent identification: everywhere we […]

    29 min

  3. 02/02/2021

    Cholera! Public health in mid-19th century Britain

    The 1848-1849 cholera epidemic in England and Wales was described by a government report as if a ‘foreign army’ had ‘held possession of the country, and slain 53,293 men, women and children’. In the mid-19th century the country faced an epidemic of filth; poorly drained, overcrowded towns created an environment ripe for diseases like typhus […]

    40 min

  4. 18/12/2020

    The rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell

    Diarmaid MacCulloch, Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College, introduces his ground-breaking biography of Thomas Cromwell, the self-made statesman who married his son to King Henry VIII’s sister-in-law, re-shaped Tudor England and Ireland, and sent the kingdom on a Protestant course for centuries. […]

    43 min

  5. 16/12/2020

    Who dares wins: Britain 1979-1982

    In this talk to mark the latest volume of his epic history of post-war Britain, television presenter and best-selling author Dominic Sandbrook recreates the strange world of early 1980s, taking in everything from Margaret Thatcher, Ian Botham and Spandau Ballet, to the Falklands War, the Sinclair Spectrum and the Sony Walkman.

    55 min

  6. 25/11/2020

    Rebecca Gowers and The Scoundrel Harry Larkyns

    Rebecca Gowers uncovered a fascinating story within her family tree – that of Harry Larkyns. She learnt that Harry was an attractive cad who lived a charmed life, right up until the moment he fell in love with the wife of noted photographer, Eadweard Muybridge. In this ‘Meet the Author’ event (recorded over Zoom), Rebecca […]

    54 min

  7. 30/10/2020

    Trevor Barnes and Dead Doubles

    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 ‘Meet the Author’ talk, Trevor is joined by Professor Chris Andrew of Cambridge University to discuss his latest book, Dead Doubles.

    53 min

  8. 13/10/2020

    Nancy Astor: First steps towards a better balanced world

    Opening up the electorate in 1918 to some women voters naturally triggered a conversation about female parliamentarians. Under the 1918 Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act, Nancy Astor was the first female MP to take her seat. In this talk, Dr Jacqui Turner reflects on Astor’s achievements and on how she became a totem for women […]

    41 min
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The National Archives Podcast Series will remain live, but will not be updated with new content. For new podcasts from us head over to On the Record at The National Archives.

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  • Creator
    The National Archives
  • Years Active
    2006 - 2022
  • Episodes
    549
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright: (C) The National Archives, see https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/legal/copyright.htm for terms and conditions of reuse
  • Show Website
    The National Archives Podcast Series

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