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Revolting to humanity: histories of mental health

WEBThe 19th century ushered in a new way of seeing mental health. For the first time, ‘madness’ was not a condition understood as an extension of the criminal or …

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Introduction to birth, marriages and death registers in England …

WEBKeith: Civil Registration Act of 1837 was intended and brought in to register all birth, marriage, and death records in England and Wales. Prior to that, it was just on a …

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Cholera! Public health in mid-19th century Britain

WEBIn the mid-19th century the country faced an epidemic of filth; poorly drained, overcrowded towns created an environment ripe for diseases like typhus and cholera. In …

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1974: forty years on The National Archives

WEBMark Dunton looks back at UK National events in 1974 in this illustrated podcast. Drawing on the public records he highlights some unusual or little known …

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The British Red Cross and its archives The National Archives

WEBThe British Red Cross has long recognised the importance of its history and archive collection, maintaining an archive since the late 1960s. The talk outlines the …

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Bess of Hardwick The National Archives

WEBElizabeth, countess of Shrewsbury (c1522-1608), known as ‘Bess of Hardwick’, is one of Elizabethan England’s most famous figures. She is renowned as a …

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Prison hulks The National Archives

WEBIn 1823, inmates of Millbank prison were evacuated under an Act of Parliament to prison hulks at Woolwich following an epidemic. Amongst these inmates …

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Education in 1911 The National Archives

WEBIn 1911, one delegate to the National Union of Teachers conference described the education system as ‘providing a handful of prigs and an army of serfs’. …

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Operation Hurricane The National Archives

WEBThe explosion of the first Soviet bomb in 1949 seemed to justify the decision by the British to develop such a weapon. Three years later, the British detonated their …

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J B Priestley: A Soldier's Cause The National Archives

WEBJ B Priestley was an author, playwright, broadcaster and social commentator. Best known for his plays such as ‘An Inspector Calls’ and his postscript …

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1971 Census The National Archives

WEBVoice over: From time to time through history, the greatest need has been for facts: facts to know where to build new schools, new houses, hospitals, factories, roads.We need facts …

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Early civil registration The National Archives

WEBEarly civil registration: I’ve specifically given it the dates 1837 to 1875, 1837 being the date when civil registration of births, marriages and deaths started in England …

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Transportation to Australia The National Archives

WEBThe numbers of people sent to Australia increased between 1811 and 1830 and the peak years were seen to be the 1830s when over 43,000 men and 7,000 …

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Kindertransport: Britain’s rescue plan The National Archives

WEBTranscription. My talk today is about the Kindertransport, a story of approximately 10,000 children, mostly Jewish, who were sent on transports from Nazi …

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I’m All Right Jack! Britain in 1959 The National Archives

WEBThe trouble was that by 1959 the economy was in danger of overheating. Derek Heathcoat Amory’s budget of April ’59 was very generous, with considerable tax …

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Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess

WEBGuy Burgess was a brilliant young Englishman who rose through the ranks of MI5 and MI6 during the Cold War. But as a member of ‘The Cambridge Spies’, he …

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Charles Dickens, Warren’s Blacking and the Chancery Court

WEBCharles Day, of the blacking firm Day and Martin, left £350,000 when he died in 1836. With money like that to be made, it’s no surprise that there was great …

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Broadmoor revealed: The Victorian asylum The National Archives

WEBBroadmoor Hospital opened in 1863 and has always admitted patients who would otherwise have been in the prison system. Mark Stevens discovers some of the …

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