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The National Archives Podcast Series

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Podcasts:

 Jermynology: how genealogy can change history | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 25:00

Lectures, discussions, talks and other events presented by The National Archives of the United Kingdom.

 Workhouse records for family historians | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:15

Lectures, talks and other events presented by The National Archives of the United Kingdom.

 Marriages at sea - fact or fiction? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:27

Lectures, talks and other events presented by The National Archives of the United Kingdom.

 Tracing births and deaths at sea | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:35

Ships carrying our ancestors to faraway 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.

 Tracing births and deaths at sea | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:35

Lectures, discussions, talks and other events presented by The National Archives of the United Kingdom.

 Star Chamber stories: using records of the early modern equity courts | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:27

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 Sean Cunningham introduces the records created by the courts, and offers advice on how to make the most of these sources.

 Star Chamber stories: using records of the early modern equity courts | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:27

Lectures, discussions, talks and other events presented by The National Archives of the United Kingdom.

 Going, going, almost gone: the vanishing face of the traditional English pub | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:17

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.

 Going, going, almost gone: the vanishing face of the traditional English pub | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:17

Lectures, discussions, talks and other events presented by The National Archives of the United Kingdom.

 Colin Jackson: my journey into the past | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 13:01

As part of The National Archives Caribbean Family History Day, Colin Jackson CBE, world record hurdler, discusses the experience of tracing his family history.

 Creating a legacy from your family history | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 22:03

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.

 Colin Jackson: my journey into the past | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 13:01

Lectures, discussions, talks and other events presented by The National Archives of the United Kingdom.

 Creating a legacy from your family history | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 22:03

Lectures, discussions, talks and other events presented by The National Archives of the United Kingdom.

 Was the Cromwellian Protectorate a military dictatorship? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:37

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.

 Was the Cromwellian Protectorate a military dictatorship? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:37

Lectures, discussions, talks and other events presented by The National Archives of the United Kingdom.

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