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Newly accredited archive services

The UK Archive Service Accreditation Committee is pleased to announce that the following archive services were awarded Archive Service Accreditation at...

Tags: archive service accreditation, Brent Museum Archives, Historic England Archive, Modern Records Centre: Warwick University, The National Library of Scotland

The National Archives announces first Artist in Residence

We are delighted to announce that Michael Takeo Magruder will be our first ever Artist in Residence. A renowned artist and researcher, Michael will be...

Tags: Archives for Everyone, Artist in Residence, data, Michael Takeo Magruder

TripAdvisor’s Certificate of Excellence Hall of Fame award

We are pleased to announce that The National Archives has achieved TripAdvisor’s Certificate of Excellence Hall of Fame award. The TripAdvisor Certificate...

Tags: award, opening hours, tripadvisor, visit The National Archives

Archives Revealed grant awards announced

The Archives Revealed funding programme has awarded a total of £300,000 to nine archives across the UK for cataloguing projects. The scheme, which...

Tags: archives, Archives Revealed, Cataloguing, grants

New partner for DCDC conference series

Along with Research Libraries UK, we can today announce that Jisc will be joining us as a partner in the organisation and delivery of the Discovering Collections,...

Tags: academic, archives, conference, conferences, DCDC, DCDC19, Jisc, research, rluk

New planning guidance for archives and libraries

Today we have published guidance with Arts Council England on public libraries and archives advocating within local authority planning. The guide is designed...

Tags: archive sector, archives, arts council, guidelines, libraries

The National Archives rebrands for the first time in 16 years

To mark our commitment to wider public engagement, we have refreshed our brand to introduce a new visual identity created by multi-disciplinary designers...

Tags: Archives for Everyone, brand, HemingwayDesign, rebrand, visual identity, Wayne Hemingway

Cold War on File: A new resource for students

The Online Education team at The National Archives has launched Cold War on File, a brand new online education resource comprising nearly 50 documents,...

Tags: cold war, education, history

Volunteers required for our User Advisory Group

Would you like to represent the views of archive users and help to improve The National Archives’ services? If you are a regular archive user then we...

Tags: academic, archive services, research, students, User Advisory Group, Volunteers

The National Archives awarded PhD studentships by Arts and Humanities Research Council

We are delighted to announce that The National Archives is one of 14 leading institutions and consortia to be awarded an allocation of PhD studentships...

Tags: ahrc, arts and humanities research, collaborative doctoral programme, PhD studentships

London Festival of Architecture

We give a lot of thought to what we hold inside our building – over 1,000 years of documents of global historical importance. This June however, we turn...

Tags: AOC architecture, brutalist style, design, HemingwayDesign, London Festival of Architecture, Wayne Hemingway

Apply now: Young People’s Film Project

We will be running an exciting new film project – ‘Mental Health on Record’ – from Monday 29 July to Friday 2 August 2019, and we have places...

Tags: film project, Holding History, mental health, Suffrage Tales