While naval warfare is one of the most popular subjects of research in The National Archives, readers are frequently frustrated in their search for information, and a high proportion of the relevant records are seldom consulted. This invaluable guide will help researchers both to understand TNA’s naval records and to locate the information they want, regardless of how much or little administrative history they know, or want to know.

This important new guide is an introduction to the records of British government departments responsible for the administration of colonial affairs, and now held in The National Archives of the United Kingdom. It covers the period from about 1801 to 1966.

'Thirteen long years; thirteen wasted years' was the famous Labour Party verdict on the Conservative governments of 1951-64. Was this just a period of dullness and failure? Historians are now becoming aware of the complexities of policy-making in these years and the 'great reappraisal' of economic policy that resulted in considerable policy innovation.

This volume updates the author's earlier work, A Clearer Sense of the Census (1996), to include material relating to the 1901 census returns (available online at The National Archives), and to the pre-1841 censuses. It includes details of the structure and geography of the census, and has comprehensive information on the houses, households, individuals and occupations that appear in the returns.