http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/ Highlights of new document releases from The National Archives en-gb The material featured on this site is subject to Crown copyright protection unless otherwise indicated. Wed, 25 May 2005 17:00:00 GMT Wed, 25 May 2005 17:00:00 GMT 15 http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/images/global/logo.gif http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/ http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2006/may/pierrepoint3.htm?from=rss The Prison Commission discusses a newspaper article about Albert Pierrepoint. The file also contains a letter from Pierrepoint complaining that members of the press are hounding him and his entourage. Wed, 31 May 2006 09:12:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2006/may/pierrepoint2.htm?from=rss The Prison Commission expresses further concern over the capacities of Thomas Pierrepoint, who is 72 years of age. Wed, 31 May 2006 09:10:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2006/may/pierrepoint1.htm?from=rss Following a complaint from a prison governor after an execution, the Prison Commission investigates Thomas Pierrepoint's capacity to continue his duty as executioner. Wed, 31 May 2006 09:09:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2006/may/notebook.htm?from=rss A selection of transcripts from the The Cabinet Secretaries' Notebooks. The Notebooks being released are those of Sir Norman Brook who was in fact Deputy Cabinet Secretary until 1947 and thereafter became Cabinet Secretary. Wed, 31 May 2006 09:08:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2006/march/recent.htm?from=rss A selection of recent releases from The National Archives Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:03:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2006/march/foihighlights.htm?from=rss The Cabinet Secretaries' Notebooks covering CAB 195/3 and CAB 195/4. View the transcripts from the notebooks Fri, 31 March 2006 09:00:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2006/march/churchill.htm?from=rss These two diaries give an interesting insight into the daily routine of the Prime Minister from 16 November 1950 to 5 April 1954. They hold detailed accounts of where Churchill was on each day, who he dined with, where and what time. Fri, 31 March 2006 09:00:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2006/march/default.htm?from=rss Unveil the truth behind the German WWII spy that evaded British authorities for over a year in London's West End and tell the story of the Japanese spies that posed as Boy Scouts. Mon, 06 March 2006 09:30:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2006/january/january31/default.htm?from=rss Labour's Home Secretary, James Chunter Ede, tried to censor the film that launched Diana Dors on her screen career. 'Good Time Girl' stared Dors as Lyla Lawrence, a misfit school girl who absconds from a reform school and get tangled up in a spiral of crime that leads to murder. Tue, 31 January 2006 09:30:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2006/january/january1/default.htm?from=rss The release of the Cabinet Secretaries´ Notebooks from World War Two gives a real flavour of the views and personalities of those people who attended Cabinet during this important time in world politics. Sun, 01 January 2006 00:01:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_december/december29/default.htm?from=rss With the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act, the standard 30-year closure period has disappeared. Instead, records are open on transfer to The National Archives unless they contain information covered by an exemption set out in the Act. Thu, 29 December 2005 09:30:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_nov/november28/default.htm?from=rss Reports on exercises carried out whilst on patrol off the coast of Northern Ireland. Mon, 28 November 2005 09:30:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_nov/november25/default.htm?from=rss Correspondence relating to a book on the sinking of the SS Lusitania. The book claimed that the Admiralty deliberately put the Lusitania at risk in order to bring the United States into the war. Fri, 25 November 2005 09:30:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_nov/november1/default.htm?from=rss Randolph Churchill, Harry St John Philby, Joe Coral and Sarah Mugabe all feature in this month's newly released files. The documents cover a range of subjects from Randolph Churchill's time with the partisans in Yugoslavia during World War Two to Sarah Mugabe's application to stay in Britain. Tue, 01 November 2005 09:30:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_oct/october26/default.htm?from=rss Harold Wilson takes advice about the situation that would arise if the Government were defeated on an amendment to the Address in reply to the Queen's speech on 18 March 1974. Wed, 26 October 2005 09:30:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.ukl/releases/2005/highlights_oct/oct3/default.htm?from=rss Copies of typescripts of two versions of the Zimmermann Telegram. They include comments in Admiral Hall's writing, reading respectively: 'Main line - not exposed' and 'Inland cable on American soil - this was the one handed to Dr Page and exposed by the President'. Mon, 03 October 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_oct/oct3/default.htm?from=rss File releases include documents on censorship of indecent literature, proposals for the extradition of Ronald Biggs, 'Great Train Robber', from Brazil to UK, the impact of generic broadcasting on BBC radio channels and Treasury correspondence on the broadcasting proceedings of the House of Commons. Fri, 03 October 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_march/march1/arthur.htm?from=rss Ransome (1884-1967), the author of Swallows and Amazons, came to MI5’s attention in 1917 when, as a journalist for the Daily News in Russia, he witnessed the October Revolution at first hand and was on friendly terms with many prominent Bolshevik figures Fri, 16 September 2005 17:45:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_sep/sep5/default.htm?from=rss Newly released files reveal German techniques for camouflaging sabotage equipment - these include drawings and photographs of an exploding chocolate bar and a mess tin concealing bomb equipment. Mon, 5 September 2005 09:45:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_aug/aug10/default.htm?from=rss Handwritten statements by Harold Pinter reveal how the playwright's objections to a second world war were founded on moral grounds. Mon, 15 August 2005 17:30:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_aug/aug3/default.htm?from=rss Home office papers reveal how 7,100 Ukrainian men from the 14th Waffen SS 'Galicia' Division were allowed to settle in Britain in order to protect them from persecution in Stalinist controlled Ukraine. Fri, 05 August 2005 16:30:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_aug/aug2/default.htm?from=rss Documents released this month include a Metropolitan Police file about accusations of corruption made by Mick Jagger against drug raid police and the arrest of John Winston Lennon and Yoko Ono for drug offences. Tue, 02 August 2005 11:30:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_july/july10/default.htm?from=rss This newly released Metropolitan police file (MEPO 38/69) reveals how George Orwell, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, was under Special Branch surveillance for more than 12 years of his life. Tue, 19 July 2005 10:30:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_july/july10/default.htm?from=rss On 10 August 1949 John George Haigh, The Acid Bath murderer, was hanged for killing 6 women between 1944-1949. Haigh's motives for killing were originally cited as greed and as a means of funding his gambling habit. Mon, 11 July 2005 09:30:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_june/june22/default.htm?from=rss On 18 November 1930, Beatrice Tomkins, aged 45, was charged with using an instrument with intent to procure the miscarriage of Emma "Midge" Murell, aged 25. Wed, 22 June 2005 17:30:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/66.htm?from=rss The National Archives has discovered its sea legs by launching two exciting initiatives to coincide with Sea Britain 2005 – the Trafalgar Ancestors online database and a new exhibition on Nelson, Cook and Bligh at its museum in Kew Tue, 21 June 2005 18:30:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_july/july1/default.htm?from=rss Details about biological warfare precautions for the civilian population. Documents indicate that there were only enough respirators for one in five people in the United Kingdom. Fri, 1 July 2005 10:00:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_june/june1/default.htm?from=rss Newly released files include reports on the Watergate conspiracy and on Harold Wilson's concerns that the Russians were spying on him at his holiday home on the Isles of Scilly Wed, 1 June 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_may/may27/default.htm?from=rss The imprisonment of Oswald Mosley, founder of the British fascist party, and his wife Diana led to a campaign for the couple's freedom. Fri, 27 May 2005 09:30:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_may/may23/default.htm?from=rss On the 75th anniversary of British aviator Amy Johnson’s historic solo flight from Britain to Australia, newly unveiled documents detail her frantic preparation and sometimes controversial journey down under. Mon, 23 May 2005 08:00:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/63.htm?from=rss Find out about the overzealous approach of a data collector for the 1861 national census. You can now search the 1861 census site - completing a chain of historical data from five consecutive decades, providing a valuable and accessible online starting point for delving into your family history. Thu, 19 May 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/64.htm?from=rss Churchill, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Eric Wilson. The latter name may not be enjoy the world renown of these World War Two leaders but Britain’s oldest surviving Victoria Cross recipient Eric Wilson features alongside such historical figures in a new online exhibition entitled ‘The Art of War’. Thu, 19 May 2005 09:00:00 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_april/april1/default.htm?from=rss New releases include files in the FO 1093 series from the Permanent Under-Secretary's Department of the Foreign Office and further releases on the security breach at the British Embassy in Ankara during the Second World War. Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:41:31 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_march/march14/default.htm?from=rss Claim against Civil Service Department by Marjorie Halls for premature death of her husband, Michael Halls (Principal Private Secretary to Harold Wilson), allegedly caused by stressful working conditions in 10 Downing Street. Sun, 03 Apr 2005 09:41:41 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_march/march1/default.htm?from=rss The latest Security Service (MI5) release includes files on Arthur Ransome, details on how to be a spy in London, and holiday camps to hold British Communists if war began with the Soviet Union. Sat, 02 Apr 2005 09:42:02 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_february/february25/britain/default.htm?from=rss In this file Foreign and Commonwealth officials accuse the Ministry of Defence of predicting an "unduly horrific" threat of Soviet attack against Britain during the height of the Cold War. Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:41:56 GMT http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20060829101539/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2005/highlights_february/february25/concorde/default.htm?from=rss Concorde considered a "hopeless" initiative. Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:41:51 GMT