Wordless Wednesday

Posted on: September 28th, 2011 by pj

Hilda Margaret Wilkins (1906-1992) , my grandmother. Taken in 1931, the year before she married my grandfather, Leonard Rainbow.

News from the National Archives

May 9, 2013

The National Archives hosts committee on Nazi-era looted art records

Members of the Nazi-era cultural property project met yesterday at The National Archives, Kew, to report on progress of the online international research portal for families, historians and researchers to access records on looted art from the Nazi era.

May 8, 2013

19th century immigrants' records released online

The records of thousands of 19th century immigrants to Britain are now available to search and download online. The collection, which covers the period 1801 to 1871, includes records relating to more than 7,000 people who applied to become British citizens under the 1844 Naturalisation Act, as well as a small number of papers relating to denization, a form of British citizenship that conferred some but not all the rights of a British subject.