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Trailer: The American Revolution

The American Revolution is the origin story of the United States. But what did it look like from the other side?

In a special two-part On the Record, …

23 hours ago

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The People's Charter

Season 13 Episode 55

In this episode of On the Record, we explore Chartism, Britain's first mass political movement, driven by the working classes.

It emerged in response …

5 months, 1 week ago

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Trailer: The People's Charter

In our next episode of On the Record, we explore the rise of Chartism, the 19th-century working-class mass movement that shook Britain's political es…

5 months, 1 week ago

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The Putney Debates

Season 13 Episode 54

In 1647, inside St Mary's Church in Putney, army generals sat alongside ordinary soldiers to debate nothing less than the future of the nation. Shoul…

6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Trailer: The Putney Debates

Coming soon…In our next episode of On the Record, we step inside St Mary's Church, Putney in 1647, where soldiers, radicals, and reformers wrestled w…

7 months ago

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Magna Carta

Season 13 Episode 53

When King John sealed Magna Carta in 1215, it was meant to end a civil war. Instead, it sparked an idea that still resonates today.

In this episode, w…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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Trailer: Magna Carta

Coming soon...In the gripping first episode to our People and Power mini‑series, we explore two medieval documents that reshaped ideas about power i…

8 months ago

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Love Letters

Season 12 Episode 52

Love letters might not be what you'd expect to find in a government archive, yet The National Archives holds an extraordinary collection spanning ove…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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Trailer: Love Letters

In our next episode of On the Record, we explore 500 years of devotion, longing and forbidden love from our new Love Letters exhibition at The Nation…

8 months, 4 weeks ago

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People of the railways

Season 12 Episode 51

The story of Britain's railways isn't just about steam engines and steel tracks—it's about the people who built them, worked on them, and sometimes f…

1 year, 1 month ago

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