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The National Archives has a number of resources to help you work with original documents.
The first thing you need to know is the correct way to handle documents to ensure they are not damaged.
To learn more about ordering documents and how to find what you're looking for using our Catalogue, see our helpful step-by-step videos.
Many documents written between 1500 and 1800 can be very difficult to read even when they are in English. Our palaeography guide can help decipher hard to read texts.
Even older documents are often written in Latin and we have guides to beginners and advanced medieval Latin as well as a specific guide to Latin palaeography.
