THEMES Artifacts, objects and documents
National Icon – King Edward’s Crown
National icons are many and varied but the Crown Jewels are symbolic of our monarchy and our national pride
Read MoreRoyal Institution founded 1799
The Royal Institution is one of the UK’s most important and dynamic organizations, with an absolutely fascinating history which still serves an important role today
Read MoreFamily History Books 40,000 Digitized Books
Try this free resource from Family Search, 40,000 digitized publications on genealogy and family history
Read MoreVatican Secret Archives- 100 Documents on Public View
Fascinating documents from the Vatican Secret Archives, on display for the first time ever
Read MoreVisit the Streets of C18th London through the works of Rowlandson & Smith
Imagery is such an important tool to social and family historians as they build a picture of lives in the past. The work of C18th caricaturists and engravers such as Rowlandson and Smith can really help build the picture
Read MoreThe National Archives ‘Hack Day’
National Archive ‘hack day’, for web designers and developers, gather, exchange and think imaginatively about making use of National Archive documents
Read MoreOld English Place Names – How do they just disappear?
Where can you go to find places that seem to have just ‘disappeared’ from the maps of Great Britain?
Read MoreWhat an Intriguing Find a Cryptic Note Charles 1st Cromwell?
What an intriguing Find? Can you help solve this conundrum? A wonderful document with a cryptic note and possible cypher with references to Cromwell Charles 1st and the King of France, is this something you have knowledge of? if so please do contact us so we can help the kind people who brought this important…
Read MoreScott the Terra Nova Exhibition
Visit the Scott Polar Institute to see the most comprehensive exhibition of Scott’s ill fated Terra Nova expedition
Read MoreVideo Games an intriguing use of UK Web Archive Project
When is an artefact of value? Would you think of your children’s discarded videogaming as ‘history in the making’ worthy of it’s own historic archive
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