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The National Archives Podcast Series

The National Archives Podcast Series will remain live, but will not be updated with new content. For new podcasts from us head over to On the Record at The National Archives.

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Trailer: On the Record at The National Archives

Trailer: On the Record at The National Archives

Want to hear more from The National Archives? We'd like to introduce you to On the Record, a new podcast bringing old st... Read more

20 Oct 2022

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Annual Digital Lecture 2020: The death of anonymity in the age of identity

Annual Digital Lecture 2020: The death of anonymity in the age of identity

The global datafication of economy, society and politics has rendered humans into constellations of datapoints. Technolo... Read more

2 Feb 2021

28mins

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The 1848-1849 cholera epidemic in England and Wales was described by a government report as if a ‘foreign army’ had ‘hel... Read more

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The rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell

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Diarmaid MacCulloch, Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross ... Read more

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Trevor Barnes is the author of a new study of one of the Cold War’s most notorious spy cases – the Portland Spy Ring. In... Read more

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Nancy Astor: First steps towards a better balanced world

Nancy Astor: First steps towards a better balanced world

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Dermot Turing and The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park

In this ‘Meet the Author’ event (recorded over Zoom), Dermot Turing discusses his latest book, The Codebreakers of Bletc... Read more

30 Sep 2020

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Hidden Love: LGBTQ+ lives in the archives

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