Staff network enquiring, researching, remembering and awareness-raising of past to learn in present+future. Admin by @biztradegovuk staff member @ozzywon.
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A reminder 🎗️ on Tues 9 December we will be hosting 4 academics as part of small historical symposium about the Board of Trade. Whether you are interested in institutional/business/civil service history or future policy this promises to be great afternoon. Still time to attend!
We were delighted to be able to take part together with @GovArtCol in the @OpenCity_UK London Open House 2026 again this year. Thank you to all our visitors. #history #openhousefestival
So who watched "Who Do You Think Are"? on @BBC on Thurs 30 July? Here are a few behind the scenes shots from filming at the Old Admiralty Building with Harriet Walter and @DrHelenFry. Brilliant to shine light on #womenofnavalintelligencehistory
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Happy 4th July 2026 and Happy 250th anniversary since the signing of the Declaration of Independence to all who celebrate 🇺🇲 Many thanks to @Clement__Knox for speaking earlier this week to @tradememorial group about his book "The Scramble for America". It was fascinating 🇺🇲
The Business and Trade Historians @TradeMemorial group were delighted to welcome Dr Bryony Norburn @NorburnBry85840 to speak about "WW1 Cryptography and Room 40" in particular the people and personalities of that early period in history of #cryptography #cryptanalysis on 29 May
Playing catchup again on recent talks held by the Business & Trade Historians @TradeMemorial group. In April we were delighted to welcome the historian Dr Perry Gauci from @UniofOxford to speak about his book "The London Private Banker"
Super excited to read about line up of Spring 2026 series of "Who Do You Think You Are?" now published. I met one of these celebrities in relation to Business & Trade Historians (@TradeMemorial) group and my research. Can you guess who it was? bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2026/w…
Happy New Year everyone! Don't have too many New Year Resolutions but they mainly revolve around history including holding more oral history interviews and talks. Here's hoping for lots more learning from history in 2026 thanks to @TradeMemorial group🎉
A surrendipitous find in local village book exchange and now a fantastic Sunday morning reading Alan Johnson's award winning childhood #memoir "This Boy" of 1950s/1960s London. Alan was a former President of the Board of Trade and former DTI SoS in 2004-5 @alan_books #history 📚
On Tues 9 December the @TradeMemorial voluntary history network at @biztradegovuk will be holding a symposium on the "History of the Board of Trade" with 4 great speakers - Ed Legon, Perri 6, @MarthaPrevezer from @QMUL @sbmqmul and Jack Connolly (DBT).
Join us!
Resharing photos from Thurs 13 Nov rededication of the war memorial to men who served in Royal Naval Division which is located on outside edge of @biztradegovuk's Old Admiralty Building. Amongst those who sacrificed their lives were several Board of Trade men.
#Lestweforget 🎖️
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A local yarn bomber has created a beautiful Remembrance Day tribute outside Bletchley Park.
#BletchleyPark #YarnBomber #CommunityArt #Remembrance
Many thanks to Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History in @warstudies Department at @KingsCollegeLon for joinin @TradeMemorial group to share his knowledge of Lord Horatio Nelson on occasion of 220th anniversary of his death at Trafalgar on 21 October 2021 #history🧡
"You're either a person who can spend five hours looking at mud and not get bored, or you're not" (Lara Maiklem) #mudlarking #thehistoryexchange We 🧡 #history
Delighted to host author Simon Garfield a few weeks ago to talk about "Triumph and Disaster on the Railways" and learn about opening of Liverpool-Manchester railway in Sept 1830 and untimely death of William Huskisson MP, former President of Board of Trade #Railway200 🚂
