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Reading rooms booking service is live

Our reading rooms are now open to pre-booked visitors. You must book a visit...

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New member joins The National Archives’ board

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Rommel Pereira as a new non-executive...

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Court Number One, The Old BaileyOpens a new window

Thomas Grant invites you to witness some of the most notorious trials in history,...

Friday 14 May 2021, 14:00
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Episode 2: Trials - Murder on the high seas

Hear about the sensational Victorian case of two sailors who resorted to cannibalism after...

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Death, the Doctor and the Detective Writer

Uncover this unusual murder case from the 1930s, involving a doctor, famous detective writer...

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5 May 1821: ‘Napoleon is no more’

200 years ago, on 5 May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, former Emperor of the French, died on the remote Atlantic island of St Helena. The story of his fateful defeat at Waterloo and of his exile to St Helena by the British in 1815 is well known, so I will look today at what happened after […]

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