In the final week of November each year we hold Catalogue Week, a celebration of projects and initiatives currently taking place at The National Archives.
You can explore all of this year’s Catalogue Week content in the range of blogs and presentations below, or find previous years’ content.
This blog from Dylan Bunyan and Samuel Smith in our Cataloguing Taxonomy and Data Department examines the work they are doing on the National Farm Survey.
In this blog, Jack Ord explains the processes and challenges of cataloguing The National Archives’ biggest ever acquisition of military service personnel records.
In this blog, Olivia Gecseg explains our volunteers’ work transcribing records of design copyright registrations for the period 1884–1888.
In this recorded presentation, Keith Mitchell explores the Foreign Messenger Service records of the early 19th century and the project to catalogue the Bills and Accounts from 1795–1852.
In this video interview, Elizabeth Haines explores the series CO 691 with two historians from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), George Hay and John Burke.
In this recorded presentation, Charlotte Smith explains the project to catalogue the charitable trust deeds found in the Chancery close rolls (C 54) for the period 1736–1903.
In this blog, Dr. Jessamy Carlson blog discusses the latest developments in the cataloguing of WO 399, nursing service records, and provides a case study of Matron Mabel Whiffen RRC.
In this blog, James Cronan explains a recently completed project to catalogue by name all the ships appearing in the series WO 435, Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS): Ships’ Cards.
Explore all the content from 2023’s celebration of projects and initiatives taking place at The National Archives.
- Cataloguing LR 16: Deeds from the Office of the Auditors of Land Revenue
- Cataloguing T 336: Civilian gallantry awards in the Second World War
- Funding cataloguing at The National Archives
- Indexing WO 208: Helpers of Allied prisoners of war
- Iraqi identities and journeys in the 1920s
- Raising the profile of women in Discovery
- Transcribing the Ormonde, Almanzora, and Empire Windrush passenger lists
- User input and the small steps towards creating a new editorial interface