Annual Digital Lecture
The Annual Digital Lecture offers the opportunity to hear from leading speakers and pioneering practitioners on a topic related to digital research, in addition to highlighting some of the innovative digital work happening at The National Archives.
2025 Annual Digital Lecture
The 2025 Annual Digital Lecture, 'When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age' was given by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup on 20 November 2025 at Senate House, London, in partnership with the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
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Past lectures
- 2024: Turning over a new leaf: AI ethics in/through the archives. Watch the 2024 recording on YouTube.
- 2023: Identity 2.0: Memory Making in a Digital Age. Watch the 2023 recording on YouTube. Listen to the Annual Digital Lecture audio series to hear colleagues across The National Archives reflect on themes from the 2023 Annual Digital Lecture.
- 2022: Kate Crawford, ‘Ground Truth: In the Archives That Train Machine Learning’.
- 2021: Lauren F Klein, ‘Data Feminism and the Archive’. Watch the 2021 recording on YouTube.
- 2020: Carly Kind, ‘The death of anonymity in the age of identity’. Listen to the audio recording of the online event.
- 2019: Safiya Noble, ‘Algorithms of Oppression’. Watch the 2019 recording on YouTube.
- 2018: Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford, ‘Semantic Capital: what it is and how to protect it’. This lecture was not recorded.