Regular readers of the blog will know that I am currently travelling around the country visiting museums as part of my project 'Shoes and the Georgian Man', funded by the Society for Antiquaries. I am studying surviving examples of shoes from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in order to explore the social significance of footwear... Continue Reading →
Using Online Archives: Part 3
Our second year students taking the Dissertation Research Skills module were given an assignment to write a 500-word blog post that would serve as a how-to guide for using a particular online archive or library catalogue. With the students' permission, we'll share some of the best posts here. This one is by Tom, who writes... Continue Reading →
Collision report: Bletchley Park, Folklore, and Academic History
Collision report: Bletchley Park, Folklore, and Academic History
The Revolution was not going to break out in Northamptonshire
Jim Beach reveals Army reporting on the local political situation in 1919. Over the past year I have been rummaging through some not-very-exciting government documents. But for an intelligence historian, that’s pretty much par for the course. As I say to students who take my third-year module, Secret State: British Intelligence, 1558-1945: “Just because it’s... Continue Reading →
An Intelligence PhD as a Retirement Project!
Our recently graduated (July 2019) PhD student, the newly-minted Dr Paul Stewart, writes about his project, 'Medmenham: Anglo-American Photographic Intelligence in the Second World War'. During a thirty six year career as an RAF intelligence officer, specialising in imagery intelligence, I had the honour to meet many of the photographic intelligence unsung heroes from... Continue Reading →