The National Archives Podcast Series Podcast
1) The battle of Towton - a 550-year retrospective
Lectures, discussions, talks and other events presented by The National Archives of the United Kingdom.
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) 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 peopl...Show More
3) 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 onl...Show More
4) 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 c...Show More
5) 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-m...Show More
6) 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 eve...Show More
7) 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 fe...Show More
8) 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 Ch...Show More
9) 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 fir...Show More
10) Dermot Turing and The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park
In this ‘Meet the Author’ event (recorded over Zoom), Dermot Turing discusses his latest book, The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park, with our Collections Expert, Mark Dunton. The book examin...Show More