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Oct 28, 2026
Emma CoxHOST
Topics we have or will cover include researching in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Italy, France, the USA, Canada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Portugal, South Africa.
Emma CoxHOST
The National Archives, maps, transcription projects, heraldry, reuniting objects with descendants, military history and ancestral tours, getting past brick walls, researching adoptions, DNA testing, intergenerational trauma and inherited emotions, reading old handwriting and interpreting wills, Huguenot ancestry.
Emma CoxHOST
18th century politics, the benefits of joining a family history society, house history, the censuses, birth, marriage and death records, one name and one place studies, looking after heirlooms, caring for photographs and papers, helpful tools, software and websites, plus family history stories and interviews with authors.
Emma CoxHOST
Today, I'm delighted to welcome Alan Howard of the Talking Family Album Company.
AshleyHOST
I hope not, because if you saw what I saw, you'd know that man ought not to play God.
AshleyHOST
My name is Jane and I work at the National Archives here in the UK.
AshleyHOST
Now we're home to the largest collection of First World War diaries in the world and since 2018, the 100th anniversary of the war's end, we've been busy digitizing the archives and ensuring the soldiers' words outlive the materials they were written on.
AshleyHOST
However, while working with diaries from the 1916 Eris Vimy sector, my team uncovered a particularly striking personal account belonging to a Lance Corporal Edward Wilson of the Royal Fusiliers.
Chloe LeeHOST
This cat and mouse chase was one of hundreds that would take place during the American Revolutionary War.
Chloe LeeHOST
The National Archives holds thousands of documents captured, intercepted or seized during this period, a great many of them taken from ships far out at sea.
Chloe LeeHOST
We tend to think of the revolution that made America as fought and won on American soil.
Chloe LeeHOST
But these records begin to reveal not just a hidden front, one fought on the oceans, but also the international scale of this war.
Chloe LeeHOST
Intelligence and ideas, money and arms, crossed oceans and borders to decide who would win and who would lose.
Chloe LeeHOST
I'm Chloe Lee, a historian and record specialist at the National Archives.
Chloe LeeHOST
This is On the Record.
Chloe LeeHOST
And we're asking, how American was the American Revolution? In this episode, I'm joined by the National Archives historians and record specialists, Graham Moore and Severine Anger.
Chloe LeeHOST
And as he faces another dressing down in the Privy Council, Benjamin Franklin begins to see any hope of compromise slip away.
Chloe LeeHOST
I'm Chloe Lee, a historian and record specialist at the National Archives in Kew.
Chloe LeeHOST
This is On the Record.
Chloe LeeHOST
And over the course of the next two episodes, we're going to tell the hidden half of one of history's most iconic stories, the American Revolutionary War.
Chloe LeeHOST
I'm joined by historians and record specialists Dan Gosling and Sean Cunningham, based here at the National Archives.
Chloe LeeHOST
They've both brought along documents from the archives that will help us bring this chapter of history to life.
Chloe LeeHOST
You might have heard quite a bit about the Revolutionary War recently because 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the most famous document of that era, the Declaration of Independence, first published in 1776.
Chloe LeeHOST
It's also an important chapter of Britain's colonial and imperial story.
Penny AllenGUEST
So we would have mostly published resources for the Royal Navy.
Penny AllenGUEST
Most of the Royal Navy records are at the National Archives.
Penny AllenGUEST
We do have some Royal Navy records.
Penny AllenGUEST
For example, we have lieutenant logs.
Penny AllenGUEST
We have dockyard records.
Penny AllenGUEST
But most of the ship records, so the Cavalier, you would have to search at the National Archives.
Penny AllenGUEST
And I'm afraid not much of that's been digitized, so you'd have to make a visit there in person.
Penny AllenGUEST
But there are so many interesting Second World War documents at the National Archives.
Rachel MatthewsGUEST
And how are you preserving it? Are you digitising it or are you putting it in a...
Rachel MatthewsGUEST
Well, what I've actually done is I've developed a toolkit with an archive colleague of mine working on a project funded by the National Archives, which actually sets out what people who want to step in and save those collections should think about.
Rachel MatthewsGUEST
So we don't tell them to digitise it because those collections, they can be made up of all sorts of things.
Rachel MatthewsGUEST
I mean, you can have the bound copies of the newspaper You can have half a million photo negatives.
Nathen AminGUEST
So Henry made sure that he would distribute throughout his kingdom papal bulls that supported his marriage to Elizabeth and asserted his right to the English crown.
Nathen AminGUEST
Beautiful illuminated manuscripts were produced bearing all kinds of Tudor imagery, like this one that I photographed in the National Archives.
Nathen AminGUEST
It features things such as the Balfour Putcullis and the Lancastrian red roses.
Nathen AminGUEST
Others feature the Welsh dragon and even depictions of him seated with a crown on his head.
EmmaHOST
I did some research and I really wanted to talk about actual witches and people that this like really happened to.
EmmaHOST
So according to the National Archives, the main European witch hunt period was roughly 1450 to 1750.
EmmaHOST
And the trials intensified in different regions at different times because of religious beliefs, economic pressures, social conflicts, misogyny, and fear of the devil.
EmmaHOST
All these things played roles.
Neal ParksHOST
That document became one of the most famous pieces of paperwork in UFO history.
Neal ParksHOST
The British National Archives preserves the Rendlesham material, including the Holt Memorandum and related correspondence.
Neal ParksHOST
The principal file is catalogued as D.E.F.E. 24, 1948, 1.
Neal ParksHOST
Read that again.
Juliet BailinGUEST
For a personal aside, when I first moved to London in 2018, it was to join a venture capital fund.
Juliet BailinGUEST
But the running joke in my family was that I was always going to move to London eventually, but I was going to live near the National Archive in Kew Gardens and retire and never talk to anyone again, which is still an option.
Juliet BailinGUEST
I could do it.
Juliet BailinGUEST
My grandfather was a historian.
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