Guy Walters

We will all miss Her Majesty

9 September 2022 4:07 am

When the 25-year-old Princess Elizabeth became Queen in February 1952, the average age at which her subjects died was, at…

First names are for friends and family, not bosses and builders

21 November 2020 9:00 am

The death of the surname

The National Archives are making historians history

24 October 2020 9:00 am

Restrictions on the National Archives are a disaster for historians

Windrush is just the start: records are being shredded and history deleted

28 April 2018 9:00 am

Have you ever thrown something away and then realised that you needed it? Surely all of us have done so.…