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Back to school: discover our learning resources and taught sessions
Our award-winning education service provides invaluable support for teachers and students with a full range of learning resources and taught sessions covering...
Additional handling procedures for some documents
Last year, we temporarily withdrew access to the record series, FCO 141 (Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Records of Former Colonial Administrations:...
Archives Revealed programme awards 10 new cataloguing grants
Archives Revealed has awarded 10 new cataloguing grants, totalling nearly £350,000, to archives across the UK.
The funding programme is a collaboration...
Archives for Everyone 2023-27 published
Today, we share the priorities in our Archives for Everyone 2023-27 strategic plan. This opens a new chapter in our transformation, outlining our vision...
Archive Service Accreditation Panel latest awards
Following a recent Archive Service Accreditation Panel, the following archive services have been awarded accreditation:
Carmarthenshire Archives
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Cabinet Office Files Released
Thursday 20 July 20
This week, we released Cabinet Office files covering Tony Blair’s Labour administration (PREM 49), miscellaneous appointments...
Join our User Advisory Group
Would you like to represent the views of archive users and help to improve our services? If you are a regular archive user then we would love to hear from...
Reading rooms to close early on Friday 21 July
On Friday 21 July our document reading room and map and large document reading room will close an hour earlier than normal at 16:00.
Document ordering...
Marking the arrival of the Empire Windrush 75 years on
Thursday 22 June is Windrush Day, marking 75 years since the arrival of the Empire Windrush in the UK.
The Windrush passenger list is one of the iconic...
Archives for Everywhere strategy launched
Today we can announce the publication of our new international strategy, Archives for Everywhere, with a focus on documentary heritage on a global scale...
New collaborative doctoral partnerships announced
We are pleased to announce that we have been allocated 12 PhD studentships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as part of the fourth round of...
New web portal gives easier access to Northern Ireland files
The National Archives has today launched of a new web portal bringing together in one place government files which are focused on the situation in...
Read more about historic document releases from 2010-2016.
Read more about document releases since 2016.