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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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Read more about historic document releases from 2010-2016.
Read more about document releases since 2016.