Ranked #1
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
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1hr 11mins
Ranked #2
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
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58mins
Ranked #3
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
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #4
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
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48mins
Ranked #5
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
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35mins
Ranked #6
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
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45mins
Ranked #7
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
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45mins
Ranked #8
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
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44mins
Ranked #9
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
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1hr 6mins
Ranked #10
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
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49mins
Ranked #11
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
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19mins
Ranked #12
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
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42mins
Ranked #13
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
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42mins
Ranked #14
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
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #15
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
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51mins
Ranked #16
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
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21mins
Ranked #17
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
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47mins
Ranked #18
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
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #19
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
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20mins
Ranked #20
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
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45mins