Radio chums who are much more knowledgeable than I on such matters, I seek your help. I'm at #TheNationalArchives and have a document relating to Orfordness Rotating Beacon. Does this sound like an early version of radar to you?
Final day of three at #TheNationalArchives today. So far days one and two have been about WW1 and our time in Independent Force. Today we move post war, to the 1920s and investigations into a possible link with the development of radar in the late 1920s.
The Instrument of Abdication signed by Edward VIII in 1936 when he renounced the throne to marry Wallis Simpson.
It will be on display in The National Archives’ Love Letters exhibition, which opens on Saturday 25 January
#History #HistoryMatters #thenationalarchives #abdication #edwardviii
The actual Abdication papers signed by Edward VIII in 1936 when he renounced the throne to marry Wallis Simpson. Currently on display in The National Archives’ Love Letters exhibition, which opens on Saturday
#History #RoyalFamily #loveletters #thenationalarchives #abdication #edwardviii
The Instrument of Abdication signed by Edward VIII in 1936 when he renounced the throne to marry Wallis Simpson. Currently on display in The National Archives’ Love Letters exhibition, which opens on Saturday #loveletters #thenationalarchives #abdication #edwardviii
If you are near enough to visit #theNationalArchives and are looking for cases of parish support, try the Poor Law Commissioners Correspondence volumes. They hold a world of information! The switchover from #OldPoorLaw to #NewPoorLaw caused a lot of confusion.1/
#onthisdayinhistory November 22, 1963 #POTUS #JohnFKennedy was assassinated in Dallas, #Texas . #bobblehead #TheHenryFord #TheNationalArchives
🎉 Congratulations to the #RLUK #TheNationalArchives Professional Fellows 2025-26: Robert Chipperfield (TNA) & Manuela Pallotto Strickland (KCL)
Their projects will explore long-term accessibility & preservation of library+archival content and development of inclusive collections
ℹ️ bit.ly/4ktq9mW
Having a great day researching at #TheNationalArchives & chuffed to find a pile of #HouseHistories in the bookshop! 😀😁 #househistory #history #thehistorypress #books
Nothing more therapeutic than returning to the archive but with new sorts of curiosity promising some fresh insights. First remark: c19 handwriting is truly another world to explore 🤓 #TheNationalArchives
Day trip to #TheNationalArchives for an #MI5OfficialSecrets exhibition with the girlfriend that just opened up, very cool archive about the formation of the service and spycraft🕵🏻♂️📚
Also got to see the resident geese and their flock taking a relaxing stroll in this beautiful weather on the grounds 🦆☀️
The Official Secrets Act of 1911, on display in The National Archives’ wonderful MI5: Official Secrets exhibition which opens to the public on Saturday #thenationalarchives #mi5officialsecrets @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
Busy doing some spying at the preview of The National Archives’ MI5: Official Secrets exhibition, which opens on Saturday. It’s fascinating! #mi5officialsecrets #thenationalarchives @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
Happy to participate in the ALVA Public Engagement forum #StPaulsCathedral today, learning from #TheNationalArchives @nationaltrust.bsky.social and sharing our work @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
The front page of the attested list of prisoners in the Gosport convict hulk from December 1843
A map showing Pilsley in Derbyshire
The front cover of one of the volumes of Home Office records on the convict prisoners kept on hulks
A page of the Home Office records of convict prisoners on the hulks
A day at The National Archives tracing my convict uncles' time in Bermuda and the village in Derbyshire for my one place study
#thenationalarchives #convicthistory #oneplacestudy #genealogy
Image Description: The National Archives, Kew. Alt Text: This image is a photograph of the outside of The National Archives at Kew. The building is made of beige brickwork, large glass windows and grey roofs and canopies. In front of the building is a pond filled with water and railings around. At the front of the picture is a walkway with patterns in the stonework, including a circle.
Find out what we've been working on recently in our latest blog 'New Year, New Stage of the Project! Our visit to #TheNationalArchives, Kew' hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/divorce_hist... #archives #divorce #Ancestry #legalhistory #genealogy #familyhistory #history
The National Archives in Kew.
🔍 Our first visit of the year to The National Archives.
💎 What gems about life after Downing Street will we find in 2025?!
#AfterDowningStreet #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #NationalArchives #TheNationalArchives
Another well-spent afternoon in this treasure trove reading Dutch letters from 1664 for the #prizepapersopera #prizepapersproject #TheNationalArchives
Two stars and a nobody are posing outside a brutalist building, the star on the left is carrying a yellow bag. The stars have sunglasses on... like stars should! An umbrella on the left shows that the brutalist building is The National Archives in West London.
Not many years have gone by in the last 35 that I haven't seen Galaxie 500, or an ex-member of Galaxie 500, on a stage, but 2024 has been one of those years ... although I did have an ex-member of Galaxie 500 come and visit me at work this year :)
#deanwareham #brittaphillips #thenationalarchives
Corruption in the colonial government of fourteenth century Ireland (who'd have thought it /sarcasm). #TheNationalArchives
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