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Articles from Ancestors Magazine
You can download selected articles published in Ancestors magazine. Produced by The National Archives, Ancestors is a monthly magazine full of tips and guidance for family and other historians. Articles cover a wide range of themes, from The land girls: Doing her bit to Bermuda: Prisoners in paradise.
Most articles are four to five pages in length, and have been scanned in colour from the original magazine. Each download contains one article or a compilation of up to 6 articles. Try out FeaturesOnline by downloading these two articles free of charge:
Trinity A-bomb test photos
The Trinity A-bomb was the first test of technology for a nuclear weapon. The test was conducted the United States on 16th July 1945, 35 miles southeast of Socorro in New Mexico. Dozens of cameras were set up to capture the event on film. You can download pictures taken in the seconds after the bomb was detonated, or a compilation of 8 Trinity A-bomb test photos taken from half a second to 20 seconds after the bomb was detonated. (Catalogue reference ES 1/495).
Declaration of Independence
You can download a colour image showing all 3 copies of the Declaration of Independence that are held by The National Archives. In Autumn 2008 an antiquarian bookseller carrying out research at The National Archives discovered the document hidden among correspondence from American colonists that had been intercepted by the British in the 18th century. This discovery brings the total of known surviving copies worldwide to 26.
The United States Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. The prints made by John Dunlap were delivered to the founders early on the morning of July 5 1776. One copy was officially entered into the Congressional Journal and the additional copies were distributed, some by horseback, throughout the colonies to be read aloud to colonists and the militia. The last discovery of a Dunlap declaration was at a flea market in 1989, and it sold at auction in 2000 for $8.14 million.
