The National Archives Podcast Series

A tourist's guide to Shakespeare's London

Discover what it was like to wander the streets of Shakespeare's London. Though large portions of...

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Magna Carta: Law, Liberty and Legacy

In this podcast, Julian Harrison discusses Magna Carta's fascinating history and legacy, focusing...

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Prisoners of war in the Far East

Prisoners of war in the Far East experienced some of the most horrifying and traumatic conditions...

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England's Immigrants between 1330 and 1550

This talk explores a new research database which provides an insight into immigration in England...

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Simply a Jacobite woman? The life experience of Lady Nairne

Lady Nairne was a noted Jacobite who played an important part in rousing support for the risings...

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Worn out by war: Disabled soldiers and their pensions

How can military records help us to reconstruct and understand the lives of disabled people and...

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First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill

Sonia Purnell presents the inspiring but often ignored story of one of the most important women...

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Writer of the month: Mike Pitts on 'Digging for Richard III: How Archaeology Found the King'

To accompany the publication of his book 'Digging for Richard III: How Archaeology Found the...

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Big Data and the gendering of Parliamentary language

Luke Blaxill discusses the ways in which Big Data techniques can introduce quantification into...

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England '66: The best of times?

It was a year when England won the World Cup and led the world in all aspects of popular culture,...

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100 years of the WI: The acceptable face of feminism

Professor Maggie Andrews discusses some of the key campaigns and concerns of the Women's...

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Writer of the Month: Richard Barnett on Crucial Interventions

In this talk medical historian Richard Barnett explores surgery during the 19th century, from the...

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Amiable Warriors: A History of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality

The Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) is the oldest surviving LGBT organisation in the UK....

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Big Ideas: The Future of the Past

This presentation discusses the role that the material and intellectual heritage of a community...

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Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess

Guy Burgess was a brilliant young Englishman who rose through the ranks of MI5 and MI6 during the...

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Shell-Shocked Britain: Understanding the lasting trauma of the First World War

Millions of soldiers were scarred by their experiences in the First World War trenches, but how...

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Heidi Thomas: Researching Call the Midwife

Screenwriter Heidi Thomas shares the process of transforming Jennifer Worth's memoirs into the...

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Materiality matters: new approaches to medieval wax seal studies

Wax seals have been widely studied in terms of how they look, what they depict and what they...

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Magna Carta – what's so 'great' about the charter?

We apologise for the variable sound quality of this podcast.This year is the 800th anniversary of...

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Using the 1939 Register: Recording the UK population before the war

The preparations had been made well in advance. Now Britain was at war, and as the uniformed army...

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