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Answering questions

Answering questions

Contacts

If you wish to contact The National Archives for advice or information in any of the following areas, the most appropriate contacts are listed below. If you have a records, research or record copying enquiry, please use our contact form.

Contacting us by email

Email addresses follow the format firstname.lastname@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk

Chief Executive of The National Archives

Ms Natalie Ceeney


+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5220

Director of Technology and Chief Information Officer

Dr David Thomas


+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5222

Director of Operations and Services

Jeff James

+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5296

Director of Customer Strategy & Business Development

 Oliver Morley

+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5245

Director of Information Policy and Services

Carol Tullo

+44 (0) 20 3334 2780

Head of Information Policy

For Information Policy, Crown Copyright and Licensing

Jim Wretham

+44 (0) 16 0355 3219

Head of Standards

For the Information Fair Trader scheme and complaints under the re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations

Marcia Jackson

+44 (0) 20 3334 2786

Head of Publishing Services

For official publications and legislation publishing

Alan Pawsey

+44 (0) 16 0355 3221

Head of Academic Liaison

Liaison with and support for postgraduates, postdoctorates and teaching staff in the higher education sector

Vanessa Carr

+44 (0) 20 8392 5224

Head of Research and Collections Development

Guidance on research undertaken by and in partnership with TNA and advice on collections strategies

Caroline M Williams

+44 (0) 20 8392 5323

Regional liaison, advice to grant-awarding bodies and sales monitoring; advice on private records

Including liaison with regional archive councils and regional agencies

Advice to all owners and custodians of non-public records

Dr Norman James

+ 44 (0) 20 8876 3444 (extension 2615)

Contact details for the regional liaison team

Public records in places of deposit

Advice on issues relating to the management of public records in approved places of deposit, including disposal, legislation and access

Archive inspection services
+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5330 (extension 2354)

archive-inspection@nationalarchives.gov.uk

 

Andrew Rowley
+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5318

Records management advisory service

Advice on developing effective information and records management systems in the wider public sector for paper and electronic records

Richard Blake


+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5208

Social inclusion and diversity issues

Parveen Betab


+ 44 (0) 20 8876 3444 (ex 5281)

Copyright and intellectual property

Queries about copyright in The National Archives' material, or about copyright in
archival material generally

Tim Padfield


+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5381

Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information

Grazia Zaffuto

+44 (0) 20 8392 5330 (extension 2252)

secretariat@appsi.gsi.gov.uk

Digital preservation

Conserving and preserving digital information

Developing and researching suitable systems to handle technological changes in digital formats

Tim Gollins

+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5257

digitalpreservation@nationalarchives.gov.uk

Preservation and conservation of paper and traditional materials

Nancy Bell

+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5283

Contact details for the preservation team

Education, learning and access, schools and universities

Online teaching and learning resources for schools

Events, exhibitions and outreach programmes for schoolchildren and undergraduates

Academic publications and development of material for the higher education and lifelong learning sectors

Andrew Payne
+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5319

 

Inspection of repositories and related archival standards

Advice on standards for storage and access of public and private archives, and how related issues such as Freedom of Information impact upon them

Dr Norman James
+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5330 (extension 2615)

Andrew Rowley
+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5318

National Register of Archives

Alex Ritchie


+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5330 (extension 2606)

 

Archives awareness initiatives

Advice on initiatives to promote archives

Angela Owusu


+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5277

 

press@nationalarchives.gov.uk

Advisory Council on national records and archives

For information on the remit and meetings of the Advisory Council

Lale Ozdemir


+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5377

Friends of The National Archives

For information on the activities of the Friends of The National Archives

Emma Markiewicz

 

+ 44 (0) 20 8392 5330 (extension 2125)