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What led to his execution?...</p></div></a></div></div> <div class="col-md-4"><div class="card"><a id="card_56254" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230314163023/https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/how-florence-nightingale-david-saved-lives-during-the-blitz-with-statistics/" data-gtm-name="How Florence Nightingale David saved lives during the Blitz – with statistics" data-gtm-id="card_56254" data-gtm-position="card_position_56254" data-gtm-creative="card_type_records_and_research" class="content-card records-and-research"><div class="entry-image" style="background-image: url(http://web.archive.org/web/20230314163023im_/https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/08154129/air-raid-feature.jpg)"><div class="content-type">Records and research</div></div><div class="entry-content"><h3>How Florence Nightingale David saved lives during the Blitz – with statistics</h3><p class="entry-pub-date">Friday 3 March 2023</p><p>We explore the wartime work carried out by this pioneering statistician...</p></div></a></div></div> <div class="col-md-4"><div class="card"><a id="card_60298" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230314163023/https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/excessive-severity-treason-and-the-grenadian-rebellion-of-1795/" data-gtm-name="‘Excessive severity’: Treason and the Grenadian Rebellion of 1795" data-gtm-id="card_60298" data-gtm-position="card_position_60298" data-gtm-creative="card_type_records_and_research" class="content-card records-and-research"><div class="entry-image" style="background-image: url(http://web.archive.org/web/20230314163023im_/https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/27121944/grenada-featured-image-crop-768x370.jpg)"><div class="content-type">Records and research</div></div><div class="entry-content"><h3>‘Excessive severity’: Treason and the Grenadian Rebellion of 1795</h3><p class="entry-pub-date">Thursday 2 March 2023</p><p>In this blog, curator Chris Day looks at how treason was used, and misused,...</p></div></a></div></div> <div class="col-md-4"><div class="card"><a id="card_60111" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230314163023/https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a-love-story-that-threatened-the-commonwealth-seretse-khama-and-ruth-williams/" data-gtm-name="A love story that threatened the Commonwealth: Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams" data-gtm-id="card_60111" data-gtm-position="card_position_60111" data-gtm-creative="card_type_records_and_research" class="content-card records-and-research"><div class="entry-image" style="background-image: url(http://web.archive.org/web/20230314163023im_/https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/24162628/CO-981-36-f-4-Tshekedi-Khama-believed-marriage-disastrous-teaser.jpg)"><div class="content-type">Records and research</div></div><div class="entry-content"><h3>A love story that threatened the Commonwealth: Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams</h3><p class="entry-pub-date">Monday 27 February 2023</p><p>Discover the marriage that caused a diplomatic storm at the end of the 1940s....</p></div></a></div></div> <div class="col-md-4"><div class="card"><a id="card_60112" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230314163023/https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/introduction-to-conservation-for-digitisation/" data-gtm-name="Introduction to conservation for digitisation" data-gtm-id="card_60112" data-gtm-position="card_position_60112" data-gtm-creative="card_type_behind_the_scenes" class="content-card behind-the-scenes"><div class="entry-image" style="background-image: url(http://web.archive.org/web/20230314163023im_/https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/21132711/teaser-image2-768x371.jpg)"><div class="content-type">Behind the scenes</div></div><div class="entry-content"><h3>Introduction to conservation for digitisation</h3><p class="entry-pub-date">Wednesday 22 February 2023</p><p>The National Archives digitises over 40,000 records every year. 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