Business History Podcasts from the National Archives, UK
March 30th, 2011
The National Archives of the United Kingdom has a series of freely available podcasts. Topics span TNA's wide range of holdings, but several may be of interest to business historians. For example:
- Sources for tracing agricultural labourers
- Credit crunch histories: records of bankrupts in The National Archives
- Tourists and booking clerks - information in the Thomas Cook Archives
- Fashion or ration: Hartnell, Amies and dressing for the Blitz
- Apprenticeship records
- Finding company records
- Railway staff records
- From cotton spinning to coffins: specifications for patents of invention
- The final balance: researching families and wealth in the 19th century using the death duty records
Tip of the hat to the Business Archives Scotland blog.
