Study records relating to the rise of dictators, the failure of international diplomacy and Britain’s preparations for the Second World War. Discover more about life in 1930s Britain including unemployment, slum clearance and leisure.
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1919 race riots
How significant a factor was race in the riots of 1919?
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Adolf Hitler
Was Hitler a 'passionate lunatic'?
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Ancient Egypt in the Archives
What can documents tell us about the process of archaeological digs?
Archaeology in the Archives
What kinds of documents can tell us about the work of archaeologists?
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Bulaya Chanda
What do these documents reveal about Bulaya Chanda, soldier and ‘showman’?
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Caribbean history in photographs
What can these photographs tell us?
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Chamberlain and Hitler 1938
What was Chamberlain trying to do?
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Eden’s last stand
Why did Anthony Eden resign in 1938?
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Empire Windrush: Caribbean migration
Why did people from the Caribbean travel to live and work in Britain?
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From Outbreak to Archive: Tales of Public Health
What do the documents reveal about how government and society dealt with public health in the past?
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German occupation of the Rhineland
What should Britain do about it?
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Hidden Love: LGBTQ+ lives in the 1920s and 1930s
What can our documents reveal about LGBTQ+ lives in the 1920 and 30s?
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Holding History
What is 'The National Archives'?
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Irish Partition
Why was Ireland divided in 1921?
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Kindertransport
Saving refugee children?
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LGBTQ+ Rights in Britain
How have changes in laws and attitudes affected LGBTQ+ people in Britain?
Living under canvas
What can this document tell us about the experience of a group of refugee children?
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Living under canvas: Child refugee stories
What can we learn from documents about the experiences of Basque child refugees?
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Migrants to Britain
What can government documents reveal about the experience of Indian seafarers?
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People – GCSE English Language
Using images for descriptive and narrative writing
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Places – GCSE English Language
Using images for descriptive and narrative writing
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Rebels in the records
What can we learn from documents that show how people ‘rebelled’ in the past?
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Russia in Revolution
How did witnesses of the Russian Revolutionary period portray these events to the British government?
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Seafarers’ Stories
How can we tell the stories of the Mirpuri, Bengali and Panjabi seafarers who travelled to Britain in the 1920s-30s?
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Significant Events
What happened then?
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Significant People
Who is who?
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Significant Places
What's in a place?
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Significant Women
What can documents tell us about significant women’s lives?
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Suffrage Tales
What would you do?
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Thirties Britain
The depressed decade?
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Travel smart through time (SEND)
How and why have people travelled around in the past and how have they done it safely?
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Treasures
What 'treasures' are there at The National Archives?
TTTV: Refugee Week 2021
What can we learn from documents about Basque children’s experiences in refugee camps?
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Twenties Britain (part one)
Decade of conflict, realignment and change?
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Twenties Britain (part two)
Decade of conflict, realignment and change?
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Uncovering LGBTQ+ lives in the archive
What types of sources might be useful to find out about the lives of LGBTQ+ people in the past?
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What is history?
How do historians work out what happened in the past?