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A document that shows a nuclear explosion, with writing overlayed that reads Civil Defence, is it any use in the nuclear age?

Britain Under Threat: Civil Defence in the Cold War

British Online Archives
Published 25th March, 2025 1 min read
A notice on sleeping sickness from the Nyasaland Government Gazette, 1911.

Document of the Week: Sleeping Sickness in North-Eastern Rhodesia, 1911

Nishah Malik
Published 24th March, 2025 3 min read
An advertisement for BOA's attendance at the ER&L 20th Annual Library Conference held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center.

British Online Archives Exhibiting at ER&L 2025!

British Online Archives
Published 21st March, 2025 1 min read
A photo of Dr Charlie Hall leafing through several documents from a file at the National Archives. The documents relate to the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster.

Britain Under Threat: The Bethnal Green Tube Disaster

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 20th March, 2025 1 min read
A poster from the Second World War, recruiting women to join the fire service. It reads Women! You are needed in the National Fire Service as full-time of pert-time members.

Britain Under Threat: Civil Defence in the Second World War

British Online Archives
Published 18th March, 2025 1 min read
A black and white photograph of a parade of 12,000 soldiers in Liverpool. The photograph shows part of the forty-five minute parade passing by Liverpool’s St. George’s Hall, which had been a recruitment headquarters in the city centre since the war’s outbreak.

Document of the Week: Image of Lord Kitchener’s Liverpool Visit, March 1915

Dr Catherine Bateson
Published 17th March, 2025 3 min read
An assortment of shamrocks in the colours of the Irish flag. The words Happy St. Patrick's Day are printed in the centre of the shamrocks.

St. Patrick's Day

British Online Archives
Published 17th March, 2025 1 min read
A circle of hands with palms facing upwards, sprinkled with brightly coloured powdered dye.

Holi

British Online Archives
Published 14th March, 2025 2 min read
A poster from the First World War. It has a title of Public Warning, and underneath, two columns of drawings. The drawings are of German and British aircraft, which are separated under two headings written in red.

Britain Under Threat: The Use of Propaganda in the First World War

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 13th March, 2025 1 min read
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