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The National Archives Podcast Series

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The personal story of Holocaust survivor John Dobai

The personal story of Holocaust survivor John Dobai

John Dobai was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1934. To mark Holocaust Memorial Day, John delivered a talk at The National... Read more

19 Feb 2019

1hr 11mins

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Big Ideas Series: Entity disambiguation in digital cultural heritage

Big Ideas Series: Entity disambiguation in digital cultural heritage

To enable people to explore a digital collection, the platform that hosts that collection needs to have a comprehensive ... Read more

23 Jul 2018

58mins

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The scandalous case of John Vassall

The scandalous case of John Vassall

In 1962, while working as a clerk in the British Embassy in Moscow, homosexual civil servant John Vassall was caught in ... Read more

23 May 2019

1hr 5mins

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The Cold War and UFOs

The Cold War and UFOs

There is more to the Ministry of Defence UFO files than reports on strange sightings in the sky. They provide insight in... Read more

23 May 2019

48mins

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Culture Clash? Pop in a royal park

Culture Clash? Pop in a royal park

Fifty years ago, the Rolling Stones gave a concert in Hyde Park that turned into a memorial to founding member Brian Jon... Read more

23 Aug 2019

35mins

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Summer Lecture Series 2019: Information at War – the Ministry of Information, 1936-1946

Summer Lecture Series 2019: Information at War – the Ministry of Information, 1936-1946

The Ministry of Information was established by a government which recognised that the understanding and morale of the ci... Read more

7 Aug 2019

45mins

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The Fall of Wolsey

The Fall of Wolsey

490 years ago Thomas Wolsey – King Henry VIII’s former favourite – fell from grace following his failure to secure the k... Read more

20 Nov 2019

45mins

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How James Bond won the Cold War for Britain

How James Bond won the Cold War for Britain

Charlie Higson, author of the best-selling Young Bond books, discusses the genesis of 007 – James Bond, Ian Fleming’s li... Read more

19 Nov 2019

44mins

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On the trail of Klaus Fuchs, atomic spy

On the trail of Klaus Fuchs, atomic spy

Arguably the most important ‘atomic’ spy of the 20th century, Klaus Fuchs was a German physicist who worked on the Briti... Read more

8 Oct 2019

1hr 6mins

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The legacy of secrecy: Experiences from the Stasi Records Archive

The legacy of secrecy: Experiences from the Stasi Records Archive

The East German Stasi had the reputation of being one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret polic... Read more

1 Oct 2019

49mins

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Security Service file release September 2019

Security Service file release September 2019

Professor Christopher Andrew, formerly official historian of MI5 and author of 'The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized... Read more

24 Sep 2019

19mins

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Lawrence, of Arabia and beyond

Lawrence, of Arabia and beyond

T E Lawrence’s role in the First World War is best remembered as that of a young, dashing officer leading the Arab Revol... Read more

9 Sep 2019

42mins

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Big Ideas Series: The role of archives in addressing refugee crises

Big Ideas Series: The role of archives in addressing refugee crises

This presentation provides an overview of a project called ‘Records and ICT at the Boundaries of the State: Refugee Need... Read more

23 Jul 2018

42mins

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The Annual Digital Lecture: Semantic Capital: what it is and how to protect it

The Annual Digital Lecture: Semantic Capital: what it is and how to protect it

In this talk Luciano Floridi presents new research on ‘semantic capital’, which he defines as the capital of ideas, know... Read more

10 Jul 2018

1hr 2mins

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Big Ideas Series: Archives and Linked Data

Big Ideas Series: Archives and Linked Data

Is linked data an appropriate technology for implementing an archive’s catalogue? Dr Jean-Luc Cochard from the Swiss Fed... Read more

4 Jul 2018

51mins

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West Africa and the First World War

West Africa and the First World War

The First World War had a great impact on West Africa, as Britain ordered the invasion of German colonies in Cameroon an... Read more

18 Jun 2018

21mins

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Big Ideas Series: Datafication, Distribution and the Future of Archival Science in the Age of Homo Deus

Big Ideas Series: Datafication, Distribution and the Future of Archival Science in the Age of Homo Deus

Victoria Lemieux examines how we can ensure and establish authenticity in a world of increasing datafication of records.... Read more

17 May 2018

47mins

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UFO files at The National Archives

UFO files at The National Archives

Originally set up at the request of Winston Churchill, the Ministry of Defence’s UFO Desk ran for over 60 years, collati... Read more

1 May 2018

1hr 8mins

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Suffrage 100: Did militancy help or hinder the fight for the franchise?

Suffrage 100: Did militancy help or hinder the fight for the franchise?

By 1912, militancy associated with the Suffragette movement hit its peak, with regular arson attacks, window-smashing ca... Read more

27 Apr 2018

20mins

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Big Ideas Series: Artistic Practice and the Archive

Big Ideas Series: Artistic Practice and the Archive

In this seminar, Professor Andrew Prescott explores the ways in which artistic practice can help us re-imagine the archi... Read more

21 Mar 2018

45mins

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