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Trumix.com listings available of The National Archives Podcast Series Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Railway Staff Records Historian Bruno Derrick guides us through how to trace those ancestors who worked on the railways during the Victorian era, both at home and abroad. Discussing the extensive collection of railway staff records held at The National Archives, this talk looks at various company records, accident records and railway magazines and offers advice on the best ways to approach and use these resources. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introduction To Family History Need advice on how to begin tracing your family’s past? Presented by Audrey Collins, this talk is for anyone new to family history. As well as advising on good research habits, the speaker provides an overview of the main resources available to family historians, such as birth and marriage certificates, online and offline resources, parish records, military records and newspapers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scandals In The Family Who needs fiction when there are so many true stories of scandal and intrigue? This talk looks at the misdeeds of the members of one family, through records held in The National Archives and elsewhere; featuring fraud, extortion, adultery, gambling debts and much more. (We apologise for the poor sound quality during the last ten minutes of the recording.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How the Society of Genealogists can help you The Society of Genealogists offers a unique combination of research material, guidance and support for those interested in family history and the lives of earlier generations. The charity's broad objectives are to "promote, encourage and foster the study, science and knowledge of genealogy". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Divorce Records after 1858 An in-depth and light-hearted look into the divorce records and laws, put in context by an introduction to the very antiquated divorce laws pre-1858. Hear about the famous feminist and family planning crusader Marie Stopes’ high-profile divorce. At the other end of the scale, hear the many and various reasons cited for divorce including going out without a bonnet! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Security Service document releases Over 150 Security Service files dating from around the time of the Second World War have been opened. Prof. Christopher Andrew, Official Historian of the Secret Service talks about German and Soviet agents and intelligence officers; right-wing extremists; Communists; and others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Fleet Registers or irregular marriage registers of 17th and 18th century London More than 200,000 clandestine or irregular marriages were performed in London between 1667 and 1754. The area around the Fleet Prison in City of London was particularly notorious, hence the name ‘Fleet Registers’, and at least one of the registers is known to be a forgery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The National Register of Archives The talk introduces users to the structure and content of the National Register of Archives. The NRA contains information on the nature and location of manuscripts and historical records that relate to British history. The speaker demonstrates search techniques to make best use of its indexes and other resources. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Special Operations Executive, the French Resistance and the D-Day landings Looks at the results and effectiveness of the British Special Operations Executive, or SEO, and the French Resistance in supporting the Second World War D-Day landings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Using the London Family History Centre Director of the London Family History Centre Sharon Hitze, gives an indepth talk about the excellent facilities avaliable for family historians at the centre. The centre is one of more than a hundred in the British Isles run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The annual ancestors lecture: our 17th century ancestors Once we go back beyond the period of civil registration, census returns and uniform parish registers, it becomes more difficult to trace a family tree. This talk will look at early parish registers, wills, apprenticeship records, hearth tax returns and other records to see how progress might be made when the going becomes difficult. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tracing World War One ancestors William Spencer takes you through the key records for tracing your World War One ancestors including records of women who were nurses or in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Solving census problems David Annal takes a practical approach to overcoming the most common problems faced by family historians when using the 19th century census returns. It may sometimes seem that your ancestors are missing from the returns - this talk aims to convince you that, if your ancestors were living in England or Wales at the time of the census, they were almost certainly recorded and you should be able to find them. The odds are firmly stacked in your favour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Was Richard II mad? Terry Jones, 'Python', historian, broadcaster, actor, director and comedian has called King Richard II a victim of spin. Here he sets out to rescue his reputation and lift the lid on the turbulent world of 14th century politics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Emigration records This talk will explain the reasons behind the emigration of some 16 million people since the 17th century. It will discuss the most popular destinations for emigrants and sources such as outgoing passenger lists, passport records, and a host of emigration schemes supported and fostered by the government. It will also feature the various child migration schemes that have been responsible in migrating some 150,000 children from the UK between 1618 and 1967. Particular reference will be made ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Criminal ancestors: trial records at The National Archives Nigel Taylor take us through a short introduction into the records that can be used to trace criminal ancestors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tracing pre 1914 army ancestors Covering the period from 1760 to 1913 William Spencer discusses the service records of army officers and other ranks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Royal Navy service records Mark Pearsall covers the main sources for officers and ratings service records in this introductory talk about Royal Navy Service Records from the late 18th Century to the early 20th Century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1968: Year of Revolutions Mark Dunton takes you back in time to a tumultuous year, using key documents to show the British Government's take on the dramatic events, and its own particular preoccupations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Newly released UFO files from the UK government Listen to Dr David Clarke, an expert in UFO history, as he explains the significance of the newly released UFO files. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Secrecy and Government Records Professor Foot is a noted historian and academic. He is the official historian for the WW2 Special Operations Executive (SOE) and has an extensive knowledge of the background to the requirements for secrecy in government records. This is a rare opportunity to hear the views of a person who has lived with secrecy of records for many decades. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Britain and the Challenge of Fascism: Saving Europe at a Cost How did Britons weigh up the decision to go to war in the 1930s and did things turn out as they expected? Professor David Stephenson from the London School of Economics and Political Science explains how the British government and British public opinion responded differently to the rise of Fascism in Europe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Losing Orton in the Archives The tangled history of the papers of the playwright Joe Orton is unwoven by Dr. Matt Cook who reveals the extraordinary sources that survive on the writer's life and the perhaps even more extraordinary ones that remain stubbornly missing. Warning: the following material may not be suitable for all listeners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Security Service document release talk From astrologers to oil barons: Professor Christopher Andrew, Official Historian for the Security Service talks about espionage and tracking enemy agents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Navy Board Project Archivist Sue Lumas describes the painstaking cataloguing and conservation of naval records held at The National Archives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Navy Board Project Archivist Sue Lumas describes the painstaking cataloguing and conservation of naval records held at The National Archives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Watch the Birdie and Say Cheese Conservator Stephen Harwood looks at the invention and development of photography, describing all the major photographic processes and explaining how anyone can identify different photographic types from the earliest photogenic experiments to today's sophisticated gelatine-silver prints. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Research and Collections Caroline Williams describes how the new Research and Collections Development department is contributing to The National Archives' research, collections and academic agenda, and how it will benefit internal and external stakeholders. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 'Living the Poor Life' poverty and the workhouse in the nineteenth century Paul Carter's talk explores the poor life in 19th-century England and Wales. Using records from The National Archives, he presents allegations of cruelty to paupers, accounts of political and Chartist activities and much more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Closing the Last Day: Death, Memory and Landholding in the Inquisition's Post-Mortem, 1216 - 1660 Sean Cunningham describes the medieval process of Closing the Last Day, where the crown would oversee the post-mortem, inquisition, execution of the will, and that the rights to heirs of property and position holders are upheld. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 20th Century Cabinet Records: Digitising a core collection of modern political records Ed Hampshire discusses the Cabinet Records Digitisation Project, explaining how the innermost records of government will soon be made fully available online and what visitors to the site can expect when the project is completed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sources for Army Officers' Commissions Mark Dunton looks at the system for purchasing and selling commissions as it worked from 1800 - 1871. He will cover first appointments, promotions, exchanges, retirement, the payment process and the activities of the 'Army Agents'. He will use document examples to illustrate the talk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Road to Jamestown - part 2 The second part of Sean Cunningham's talk about how and why English sailors and the English crown turned their attention to the New World of America in the sixteenth century. This talk explores how piracy, greed, religion and warfare became the foundations of Elizabethan attempts to settle America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Road to Jamestown - part 1 Sean Cunningham talks about how and why English sailors and the English crown turned their attention to the New World of America in the sixteenth century. This talk explores how piracy, greed, religion and warfare became the foundations of Elizabethan attempts to settle America. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Making of the Stalinist State 1928-1941 - part 2 Dr Jane McDermid puts Joseph Stalin's Russia under the microscope from the first of the Five Year Plans to the outbreak of World War II. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Making of the Stalinist State 1928-1941 - part 1 Dr Jane McDermid puts Joseph Stalin's Russia under the microscope from the first of the Five Year Plans to the outbreak of World War II. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Modern Sources for Immigration - part 2 The second part of Roger Kershaw's talk looks at key immigration sources at the National Archives such as inwards passenger lists and certificates of arrival to alien registration cards Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Modern Sources for Immigration An in depth look at key immigration sources at the National Archives from inwards passenger lists and certificates of arrival to alien registration cards, records of internment, and citizenship papers Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Army deaths, marriages and births 1761-1913 Many family trees fall at the hurdle of locating the death of a British soldier, his marriage or the birth of his children. The records available are woefully incomplete, scattered and often not fully indexed. In this presentation, Chris Watts examines the material available for tracing these events, for a pre-First World War British soldier, and guides the researcher in its use; material available on fiche, film or the Internet is highlighted. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finding Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths An introduction to using the various sources for tracing records of births, marriages and deaths at the Family Records Centre and elsewhere. Ideal for beginners or those who want to refresh their knowledge of these crucial sources. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sex, Lies & Civil Registration talk When you have been researching family history for even a short time, you will realise that the information shown on certificates is not always completely accurate! Sometimes this is the result of an honest mistake, or mis-interpretation of the question; sometimes people are being ‘economical with the truth’; and sometimes they just tell outright lies. Why? The answer is usually to do with money or sex, and sometimes both. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In the name of God, amen: Wills for family history Whether your ancestors owned large swathes of land in the north of England or came from a more humble background in the West Country, the chances are that somewhere along the line some of them will have left wills. In this talk, Dave Annal looks at how to access wills and how you can use them to get a better understanding of what life was really like for your ancestors. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Magna Carta to the Parliamentary State: the fine rolls of King Henry III 1216-1272 Professor David Carpenter talks about this unique resource preserved at The National Archives and how the records are being made accessible on the web. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sources for First World War army ancestry Mark Dunton focuses on the prime sources at The National Archives for documenting First World War army service, covering both the officers and other ranks of the British Army. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tracing your Irish ancestors at The National Archives Less than a century ago all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom; six of its northern counties still are. Many records relating to our ancestors are to be found in the UK and not in Ireland. In this talk, Audrey Collins explores some of the hidden treasures at The National Archives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Medieval Criminals and the Law An introduction to the formidable collection of documents that relate to the law and criminals during the medieval period using case studies. James Ross provides practical tips on how to access the collections, as well as shedding some light on one of the most fascinating areas of medieval society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What at first was plunder: tracing records of excisemen James Cronan examines sources for tracing Excisemen, including staff lists and joining papers and will use cases studies, for example Thomas Paine. He will also consider the role of an Excise officer and how the Excise service developed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website King John and Magna Carta History has portrayed King John as a tyrannical monarch whose arbitrary conduct forced his barons into rebellion and the eventual restriction of his powers in the iconic charter of liberties, Magna Carta. Using original sources held at The National Archives, Adrian Jobson explores some of the key crises and events of the reign before asking whether King John really deserves his reputation as one of England's worst kings. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Henry VIII: Dynasty and Power in Tudor England An introduction to the documents of Henry VIII's reign through the story of his struggles to secure personal power, to make the right marriage, and to pass the crown to a male heir. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 'In Deadly Hate?' Richard III and the Wars of the Roses The conflict for the crown in the fifteenth century has created many of English history's most vivid characters and thanks to Shakespeare, we have one of our greatest villains in the shape of Richard III. This talk looks at the key sources for this period of civil war, and investigates whether Richard III really did resemble Shakespeares destructive monster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The creation of the Iraqi state: 1914 to 1974 A lecture by Dr Charles Tripp, Reader in Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London to mark the launch of Thomson Learning's online edition of his selection of files on the history of Iraq. Dr Tripp, author of the Cambridge History of Iraq, considers the consequences of British state-building for Iraq's future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jermynology: how genealogy can change history Anthony Adolph talks about his research into the life of Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans (1605-1684) and the founder of the West End. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Workhouse records for family historians Prepare to be revolted as Simon Fowler considers conditions in 19th century workhouses and suggests ways how you can research the poor unfortunates who lived there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sources and Resources at the Family Records Centre. David Annal talks about what can be found at the Family Records Centre. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marriages at sea - fact or fiction? There is a rumour in the family that an ancestor was married at sea! How often have we heard this? Is it fact or fiction? Were marriages at sea permitted and, if so, where are records of them to be found? In this talk Dr Christopher Watts examines the range of records, both at The National Archives and elsewhere, that help us trace such events. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tracing births and deaths at sea. Ships carrying our ancestors to far-away places often arrived with more, or less, passengers than they they set out with. In this talk Dr Christopher Watts examines the vast range of records, both at The National Archives and elsewhere, that help us to trace such events. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Star Chamber Stories: using records of the early modern equity courts. The National Archives holds a vast collection of Chancery court and other equity legal records from the early modern courts of Star Chamber and Requests. In this talk SeanCunningham introduces the records created by the courts, and offers advice on how to make the most of these sources. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Going, Going, Almost Gone: the vanishing face of the traditional English pub. The pub has undergone enormous changes in the past 40 years. This talk examines what remains of unaltered pubs and what this tells us about their social history. Geoff Brandwood is an architectural historian, co-author of English Heritage's recent book: "Licensed to Sell: the History and Heritage of the Public House" and is chairman of the Victorian Society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colin Jackson: My Journey into the Past. As part of The National Archives' Caribbean Family History Day, Colin Jackson CBE, world record hurdler, discusses the experience of tracing his family history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Creating a legacy from your family history. A panel discussion that took place at The National Archives' Caribbean Family History Day. The contributors were Colin Jackson CBE, Jackie Osei-Tutu (producer of Colin Jackson's Who Do You Think You Are?), Patrick Vernon (Director of Every Generation Media and Foundation) and family history specialists, Kathy Chater and Paul Crooks. The panel addressed the process of embracing and understanding personal heritage, and creating a legacy for future generations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Was the Cromwellian Protectorate a military dictatorship? Professor Barry Coward, President of the Historical Association and the Cromwell Association discusses the nature of the republican government of Britain's most controversial Head of State. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dichotomies of Drink. Presented by Philippa Glanville, Senior Research Fellow at the V&A. The event was held at The National Archives to accompany our temporary on-site exhibition, which she curated, entitled "Drink:The History of Alcohol 1690-1920". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sahib, the British Soldier in India, 1750 - 1914. Well known military historian Professor Richard Holmes examines Indian soldiering in peace and war. He addresses the experience of ordinary soldiers, why they joined up, how they got to India and what they made of it when they arrived. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Inventions in eighteenth century Britain. Maxine Berg, Professor of History at the Eighteenth Century Centre, University of Warwick explores the inventions and the making and buying of goods in eighteenth century Britain. 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