The Autumn series of Online talks from the National Archives are now available to book
There are some very special names joining the October and November events programme - scroll down to check them out:
𝐏𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 - The National Archives invite online event attendees to pay a nominal fee for their ticket, based on suggested amounts. Paying a fee is optional and entirely at the discretion of attendees. The income received helps to keep the programme going and ensures that they can continue to engage with as many people around the world as possible.
Certain events remain completely free of charge and all events are viewable for 48 hours after the published date and time, which means that attendees who cannot view the live event can catch up at their leisure.
List of talks with links in chronological order
𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐥: 𝐔𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐬
Fri, 8 Oct 2021, 14:00 BST
Discover a fascinating story of spies, state secrets and the Soviet Union. Members of the Portland Spy ring, a notorious espionage case active at the height of the Cold War in the late 1950s to 1961, Harry Houghton and Ethel ‘Bunty’ Gee were far from archetypal spies.
𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞: 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐦 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧
Wed, 13 Oct 2021, 19:30 BST
Cardiff, 1981. A group of women with hand-made banners embark on a march of over one hundred miles to Greenham Common military base – all in the name of nuclear peace. This protest against nuclear missiles led to the establishment of camps that, for nearly two decades, drew women from all over the world, provided a place for female voices to be heard, and paved the way for future female activists.
𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬
Fri, 15 Oct 2021, 14:00 BST
Discover stories of the Black British population and their lives within Victorian Britain. Even in recent years, there has been a noticeable lack of progression in Black History’s presence in British scholarship – there are multitudes of forgotten geographies of black men and women within Victorian society.
𝐈𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐥𝐦𝐚 𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠
Fri, 22 Oct 2021, 14:00 BST
London, 1938. Alma Fielding - an ordinary young woman - begins to experience truly bizarre supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor – a Jewish Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical Research – begins to investigate the goings on. In doing so, he discovers a different and darker type of haunting: trauma, alienation, loss, and the foreshadowing of a nation’s worst fears. As the spectre of Fascism lengthens over Europe, and as Fodor’s obsession with the case deepens, Alma becomes ever more disturbed.
𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞
Wed, 27 October 2021, 16:00 – 17:00 BST
The Annual Digital Lecture showcases innovative digital research. This year's speaker is Lauren F. Klein, Emory University. As data are increasingly mobilized in the service of governments and corporations, their unequal conditions of production, asymmetrical methods of application, and unequal effects on both individuals and groups have become increasingly difficult for data scientists, digital humanists, and others who rely on data in their work to ignore. How can scholars, librarians, and archivists intervene?
𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐥 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠: 𝐀 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝𝐲
Fri, 29 Oct 2021, 14:00 BST
A loving mother. A courageous idealist. The first woman in the US to be executed for a crime other than murder.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐲: 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 (𝟏𝟓𝟎𝟏)
Fri, 12 Nov 2021, 14:00 GMT
In November 1501, an extravagant ceremony took place that enthralled the nation and altered the course of English history. In an age when public perceptions of those in power were limited to how government touched everyday life, large and lavish state events were a way in which the common people could judge their leaders’ qualities in a very different light
𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬' 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬: 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐮𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐬
Wed, 17 Nov 2021, 19:30 GMT
For centuries, disabled people and their history have been hidden in plain sight. Before the advent of modern medicine, any impairment, disease or frailty was often a matter of life and death. The treatment of disabled people reveals a great deal about periods throughout history and contemporary wider societies
