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New education resources highlight Good Friday Agreement
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Heaton-Harris has today launched important new educational resources for pupils in Northern Ireland and...
Tolkien letters shine new light on writer’s life and work
Two handwritten letters penned by JRR Tolkien have been discovered for the first time, almost 50 years after the death of the Lord...
Award of MOD service records digitisation contract
We have announced that we have awarded Ancestry®, a contract to digitise the first tranche of Ministry of Defence service personnel records. Both...
Cashless car parking and new payment app coming soon
Our visitor car parking payment system will not accept cash from Monday 27 March. Most visitors already pay for their parking by card, and this change...
Digitising FCO 141 records
The National Archives has begun a programme of work to digitise and make more widely available records from the series FCO 141 (Foreign and Commonwealth...
Review of the Statement of Public Task
The National Archives is reviewing its Statement of Public Task in line with its statutory requirements.
Members of the public are invited to submit...
Industrial action planned for Wednesday 15 March
Members of the Public and Commercial Services and Prospect unions have voted in favour of industrial action on Wednesday 15 March, in which we anticipate...
DCDC23: Call for papers now open
After two years of online-only conferences, DCDC23 returns both in-person and online from 11-13 July at Durham University with the theme Radical reimagining:...
Discovery, our catalogue, is moving to a Cloud-based platform
On Tuesday 14 March, The National Archives will start moving Discovery, our catalogue, to a Cloud-based platform as part of ongoing work to improve the...
Training provider announced for the Level 7 Archivist apprenticeship
The National Archives is delighted to announce that Westminster Adult Education Service (WAES) will be the first provider to run the off-the-job training...
Allocating collections accepted in lieu of tax
The following collections of papers have been accepted in lieu of tax by the government.
Family and estate papers of the Huyshe family of Sand and...
Opera songs performed for the first time in 200 years
A selection of opera songs, some of which have not been heard in over 200 years, will be performed in a live concert at The National Archives on 16...
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