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Blogs at The National Archives - June 2025

Discover all the latest news, projects and updates from blogs across The National Archives.

The collection

New
Published
27 June 2025

Tracing hundreds of years, PhD student Jessica Gregory outlines some of the best ways to research hospital-related records at The National Archives.

Most recent posts

  • Community outreach

    Four actors sitting down on the floor during rehearsals.
    New
    Published
    25 June 2025

    How can our records inspire and inform a theatre performance on the challenges the LGBTQ+ community faced in the 60s?

  • The collection

    Published
    18 June 2025

    Inspired by our current exhibition, MI5: Official Secrets, we've drawn up a summer reading list offering both spy fiction and fact.

  • The collection

    A map of a section of coast above a drawing of a jetty beside rocks and trees.
    Published
    13 June 2025

    Volunteer Dr Brenda Mortimer examines how Australia's Norfolk Island became ‘a place of the extremest punishment’ for colonial convicts in the 1820s.

  • Digital

    An array of buttons of different designs from a website.
    Published
    6 June 2025

    We recently went through the process of standardising the set of components we use to build our websites. The simplest of these was the button.