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Book now for new live schools sessions and education resources
Our award-winning education service provides invaluable support for teachers and students with a full range of learning resources and taught sessions covering...
Industrial action to affect services on Friday 28 April
We will remain open to visitors but some of our services will be affected.
Bookings now open for DCDC23
We're pleased to announce, along with our partners at the British Library and Jisc, that you can now register to attend this year’s DCDC conference.
DCDC...
Newly accredited archive services announced
Following a recent Archive Service Accreditation Panel the following archive services have been awarded accreditation for the second time:
Archives+
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New education resources highlight Good Friday Agreement
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Heaton-Harris has today launched important new educational resources for pupils in Northern Ireland and...
Tolkien letters shine new light on writer’s life and work
Two handwritten letters penned by JRR Tolkien have been discovered for the first time, almost 50 years after the death of the Lord of the Rings author.
The...
Award of MOD service records digitisation contract
We have announced that we have awarded Ancestry®, a contract to digitise the first tranche of Ministry of Defence service personnel records. Both...
Cashless car parking and new payment app coming soon
Our visitor car parking payment system will not accept cash from Monday 27 March. Most visitors already pay for their parking by card, and this change...
Digitising FCO 141 records
The National Archives has begun a programme of work to digitise and make more widely available records from the series FCO 141 (Foreign and Commonwealth...
Review of the Statement of Public Task
The National Archives is reviewing its Statement of Public Task in line with its statutory requirements.
Members of the public are invited to submit...
Industrial action planned for Wednesday 15 March
Members of the Public and Commercial Services and Prospect unions have voted in favour of industrial action on Wednesday 15 March, in which we anticipate...
DCDC23: Call for papers now open
After two years of online-only conferences, DCDC23 returns both in-person and online from 11-13 July at Durham University with the theme Radical reimagining:...
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