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1657: Rebel Christmas
From 27 November to 4 January, join us at The National Archives for a unique festive offering this season. Exploring the centuries-old traditions forced...
Online research project announced to mark World Digital Preservation Day
Today we mark World Digital Preservation Day by announcing an online research week looking at ways to make our web-based technical registry PRONOM more...
Celebrating volunteers across the capital
Last night we welcomed volunteers from the museum and archive sectors for the London Heritage Volunteer Awards. We were the first archive to host the awards,...
Forthcoming disruption to online services
Users of our website may experience two brief periods of disruption over the next few days as we carry out routine maintenance work of our online services...
How do you make meaning when interacting with archives?
Participants needed for research on meaning‐making through archival interactions
We are conducting a study into how people make meaning when interacting...
Funding awarded under Government programme
Funding totalling £660,000 has been distributed to 43 places of deposit across England and Wales under the Government’s New Burdens programme.
The...
Planned electrical works on Sunday 27 October – Update
Our electrical work has been completed as planned and The National Archives will be open as normal to the public from 9am on Tuesday 29 October.
We...
Interactive map shows devastating impact of Second World War air raids
Bombing Britain: an air raid map uses wartime data from our collection to pinpoint more than 30,000 UK locations that were subject to air raids over the...
Latest MI5 files released
Today we have made available to the public more than 100 previously top secret files from the Security Service, or MI5.
The records cover a range of...
Visitor car park arrangements for Saturday 14 September
On Saturday 14 September we’ll be supporting Richmond Runfest by making a number of spaces in our visitor car park available for runners to park in.
Please...
Jeff James visits M&S
Jeff James, Chief Executive and Keeper of The National Archives visited the M&S Company Archive at its home at the University of Leeds this week as...
DCDC bursaries awarded
Four bursaries have been awarded for this year’s Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC) conference, following a competition funded by...
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