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Over the last decade, our everyday gear has changed quite a lot. Now we have phones and watches that are considered smart, but there is a single object that usually stays in our pocket wherever we go, and has yet to move away from the past. Carrying a thick leather... Read more »

A question of class: which ticket would you choose you love history and always look at the past with curiosity. Now, imagine you get a chance to travel to America on the Titanic. If you had to choose just one ticket from the first, second, or third class, which one... Read more »

Imagine an archaeologist brushing away millions of years of dust from a fossilized bone. At first glance, it looks like any other ancient remnant of our evolutionary past. But under a microscope and modern CT imaging, an unsettling truth begins to emerge: the bone bears the unmistakable signature of cancer.... Read more »

Human societies have always created spaces where desire, performance, companionship and commerce intersect. What changes from one era to another is not the existence of adult entertainment, but the way it is organized, advertised, regulated and understood. In ancient cities, companionship could be connected to religious customs, public festivals, military... Read more »

A frozen graveyard in the deep In the pitch-black hours of Monday, April 15, 1912, the North Atlantic was a desolate void. The temperature had plunged well below freezing, and the water was as still as glass. Through the eerie silence, Lifeboat 14 drifted slowly across the dark waves. Its... Read more »

A bond is an investment method where the borrower borrows money from an investor with the promise of the eventual repayment of the initial investment and subsequent interest payments. Reasons for buying bonds vary, but common reasons are to hedge against the volatility of the stock markets, to maintain capital,... Read more »

The modern professional landscape looks vastly different from it did a decade ago because work no longer happens at a single mahogany desk from nine to five. Many people now move between quiet home offices and bustling corporate headquarters throughout the week. Frequent travel keeps other professionals in hotel lobbies... Read more »

On July 14, 1789, the French Revolution officially began with the attack on the Bastille fortress against the French monarchy. This went down in history as a result of the inequality rooted in French society for years, the unlimited tax burden that oppressed the common people, and the uprising against... Read more »

As Boy Scout founder Robert Baden Powell said, “Salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat” The salt makes these lakes interesting.  One of the most unique environments on Earth are salt lakes. We commonly associate that oceans will... Read more »

From the OSS to the CIA, how Wild Bill Donovan shaped the American intelligence community.... Read more »

During the 1835–42 Second Seminole War and as Army scouts out West, these warriors from the South proved formidable.... Read more »

.image-13796819 { max-height: 100%; --left: 40.91%; --top: 52.46%; } In 2019 Will Grant embarked on a 142-day, 2,000-mile horseback journey from the Pony Express stables in St. Joseph, Mo., to trail’s end in Sacramento, Calif.... Read more »

.image-13796758 { max-height: 100%; --left: 54.92%; --top: 29.55%; } William Frederick Cody (1846-1917) led a signal life, from his youthful exploits with the Pony Express and in service as a U.S. Army scout to his globetrotting days as a showman and international icon Buffalo Bill.... Read more »

.image-13796261 { max-height: 100%; --left: 41.28%; --top: 14.20%; } If you needed some motivation during the war years, there was probably a poster for that.... Read more »

.image-13796414 { max-height: 100%; --left: 44.18%; --top: 28.38%; } Texan Sam Privett, the colorfully nicknamed proprietor of Booger Red’s Wild West, backed up his boast he could ride anything on four legs.... Read more »

.image-13796876 { max-height: 100%; --left: 62.83%; --top: 32.16%; } Steve Friesen, the former director of the Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave in Colorado, assesses what has been written and filmed.... Read more »

.image-13796227 { max-height: 100%; --left: 62.57%; --top: 35.09%; } When covert operatives went into Italy to retrieve prisoners of war, little went according to plan.... Read more »

.image-13796482 { max-height: 100%; --left: 44.44%; --top: 22.81%; } Sue Robinson rose from an itinerant life as a touring child performer to become an acclaimed dramatic actress.... Read more »

In 1901, Cody had his Sioux performers don Chinese garb and portray the rebels.... Read more »

.image-13796235 { max-height: 100%; --left: 48.43%; --top: 37.96%; } The peaceful French countryside around La Fiere Bridge erupted into a desperate firefight on June 6, 1944.... Read more »

.image-13796441 { max-height: 100%; --left: 31.27%; --top: 15.34%; } Poet and playwright Oscar Wilde was no slouch at drawing crowds, critics and cash during his seven-week ramble of the American West in 1882.... Read more »

.image-13796132 { max-height: 100%; --left: 54.35%; --top: 37.05%; } The Wrights won.... Read more »

.image-13796328 { max-height: 100%; --left: 37.90%; --top: 24.39%; } Rifles and revolvers made by Uberti, Pietta, Pedersoli and other Italian firms remain popular.... Read more »

Chief Executive and Keeper of The National Archives, Jeff James, has been appointed President of the Forum of National Archivists (FAN), the international forum for national archivists. Jeff will also join the International Council on Archives’ (ICA) Executive Board and its Programme Commission, where he will represent the views of... Read more »

A ceremony to celebrate the inclusion of 90 Shakespeare documents in UNESCO’s International Memory of the World register has been held in London. Documents created during the lifetime of William Shakespeare and relating to the playwright’s life events, business dealings and legal actions now form part of the register of... Read more »

We are delighted to announce that Wellcome Collection will be the headline sponsor for DCDC18: Memory and Transformation. Delivered jointly by The National Archives and Research Libraries UK, the Discovering Collections Discovering Communities (DCDC) conference brings together speakers from across the heritage, cultural, and academic sectors to share their experiences... Read more »

The National Archives has today launched a workforce development strategy for the archive sector. Independent research consultancy Pye Tait was commissioned to create the strategy, which was further developed with the support of Archives Unlocked. The strategy draws upon extensive dialogue with people from across the archive sector, as well... Read more »

The Archives and Records Association (UK and Ireland) and The National Archives have agreed that, going forward, the Explore Your Archive campaign, as it is now mature and well established as a sector-owned campaign, should be guided solely by the Archives and Records Association in future. The National Archives will... Read more »

The National Archives Education online team have today added to their resources with the publication of the new two part themed document collection called ‘1920s Britain: Decade of Conflict, realignment and change?’. 1920s Britain is an option taught as part of the A level history syllabus for key stage 5.... Read more »

The National Archives today has published a new set of guidelines for archiving personal data. The rules for handling information about living people in archives and records intended for transfer to archive services changed on 25 May 2018. The Data Protection Act 1998 was replaced by The Data Protection Act... Read more »

The National Archives has published a revised version of our Statement of Public Task. Statements of Public Task are a key part of the transparency requirement on public bodies under the law governing the re-use of public sector information. It is good practice for organisations to regularly review their Statement... Read more »

The first five successful applicants to the Archives Revealed Scoping Grants programme have been announced. The scheme, which is supported by The National Archives, The Pilgrim Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and the Foyle Foundation, has awarded grants of up to £3,000 to five archives across the UK. Val Johnson, Director... Read more »

We will be carrying out essential maintenance work from 08:00 to 12:00 on Sunday 5 August. We anticipate that all our online and web services will be disrupted during this time. We expect the work to be completed by 12:00, when all our online services are scheduled to be available... Read more »

The UK Archive Service Accreditation Partnership has announced the latest cohort of newly accredited archive services. The post Newly accredited archive services appeared first on The National Archives.... Read more »

We have released files from the Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet Office predominantly covering the year of 1993. The newly released Cabinet Office files (CAB and PREM) shed light on a range of subjects both at home and abroad under John Major’s leadership. The files are available to view in... Read more »

The 15th annual report and accounts for The National Archives are now available online, where you can read about our highlights during 2017-18. This year’s annual report marks the third year of challenges and achievements for Archives Inspire, our ambitious, audience-focused strategy. Read more in the full report. The post... Read more »

The National Archives has launched five cross-cutting research priorities, as it responds to some of the biggest opportunities and challenges it faces as an archive. With over 11 million records in our collection and an increasing number of digital records accessioned each year, The National Archives’ research priorities place the... Read more »

For most people in 14th-century England, home meant a smoky, crowded hall where eating, working and sleeping all happened in the same shared space. Historian Ian Mortimer reveals what a night under your medieval ancestors’ roof would really have been like... Read more »

Michael Wood on what the World Cup revealed about national identity... Read more »

Ancient historian Christopher Smith uncovers how seven legendary figures shaped Rome’s ideas of power and identity... Read more »

How did the Odyssey shape the lives of the ancient Greeks who read it? Daisy Dunn considers the poem’s cultural afterlife – and its chaotic sequel... Read more »

Have you been paying attention? Test your knowledge of the stories we’ve published over the past seven days with our weekly quiz, updated every Friday.... Read more »

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Join Dr David Musgrove from 8 September for this video series for the HistoryExtra Academy, as he traces the threads of the Bayeux Tapestry story... Read more »

By Michael Pryce  THE mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing is rightly famous for cracking codes to help break the Nazi war machine. You can imagine my surprise when I discovered that after the war... The post Alan Turing, a Nazi Scientist and the Secret History of Jump Jets appeared... Read more »

Fifty years ago, the crash of the U.S. Navy’s most advanced fighter in British waters led to a desperate scramble to recover the wreck and safeguard its classified technology from the Russians  By Steven Taylor... The post The Hunt for Tomcat AB221 — Inside the U.S. Navy’s Race to Find... Read more »

“Tactically, the British had been defeated. Strategically, however, the story was very different.” By Hamish de Bretton-Gordon IN WAR, there are battles that are remembered because they were victories, and there are battles remembered because... The post Arras 1940 — Inside the doomed British tank attack that saved the Allied... Read more »

“In total, 1,297 French sailors were killed in the attacks – men who, only days earlier, had stood as Britain’s allies.” By Edward Abel Smith THE amber dawn broke fiercely over the bay of Mers... The post ‘A Most Hateful Decision’ — Inside Britain’s Destruction of the French Fleet at... Read more »

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Saints and relics shaped political authority, religious life, and economic power in the Byzantine Empire.... Read more »

Medieval manuscripts, including the York Gospels, have preserved DNA revealing the 3,500-year history of the deadly sheeppox virus.... Read more »

Archaeological excavations at the Bayeux Tapestry Museum reveal medieval tanning and dyeing, hundreds of burials and nearly 2,000 years of history.... Read more »

Sending a letter in late medieval Italy changed dramatically over the centuries. This book traces how an initially ad hoc system of messengers developed into increasingly organised and professional courier networks, eventually becoming a significant business in its own right.... Read more »

This month sees three courses set to start, dealing with the Carolingians, the Angevins, and the Crusades.... Read more »

Gold has been discovered in a medieval archbishop’s silk garment at Canterbury Cathedral, raising new questions about where the luxury textile was made.... Read more »

Archaeologists in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, have uncovered more than 200 burials at the site of a medieval leprosy hospital and chapel.... Read more »

Medieval bishops needed soldiers, but maintaining them came at a cost. David Bachrach explores how monastic wealth was used to support military households.... Read more »

Children digging at a residential complex in Vienna discovered a late medieval sword, now being studied and conserved by Austria’s Federal Monuments Office.... Read more »

How a young George Washington, fortune-seeking in the Ohio Country, helped start the Seven Years’ War.... Read more »

1776 looked different from the Cherokee towns on the Little Tennessee River.... Read more »

George Forster’s breadfruit botany and the history of Polynesian migration.... Read more »

Lady detectives, library collections, and cyborgs.... Read more »

One year later, <em>Lapham’s Quarterly</em> lives. What’s ahead in year two of our revival.... Read more »

How John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill” descended into the cataclysm of the Anglo–Pequot war.... Read more »

Burnout, coffeehouses, and a history of weird.... Read more »

A sermon on the spirit of independence.... Read more »

Frenemies, de-extinction, and the know-it-all.... Read more »

Jefferson’s Declaration and the problem of American identity.... Read more »

The Revolution, the Constitution, and the Declaration.... Read more »

What novelists can teach neuroscientists about consciousness.... Read more »

World Cup video games, Winston Churchill, and the letter W.... Read more »

Why the life of the mind should be available to all.... Read more »