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Royal Naval Officers' Service Records 1756-1966

You can now search and download Royal Naval Officers' service records. You can search the records using

  • Surname
  • Forename
  • Date of Enlistment
  • Rank

Read more about these service records.

Cabinet Papers

You can now search and download papers from the British Cabinet free of charge. You can search by

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  • Keywords

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Digital Microfilm

You can now browse and download selected Army and Navy records as part of our Digital Microfilm pilot project. These records have not been indexed, but can be searched for by Catalogue reference.

Read more about the Digital Microfilm pilot project.

New document releases

You can download some of the interesting records released under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. New releases are added every month, and each one is free for the first month online. Highlights include surveillance files on George Orwell, Ewan MacColl and Alan Lomax; the disappearance of the Cold War spies Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess; and personal papers of senior Treasury officials relating to the Suez Crisis of 1956.

Browse through the releases