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Unlocking stories through cataloguing collections: Archives Revealed
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Jessica Hogg explores how Archives Revealed projects are connecting communities and celebrating diversity and identity.
Blogs at The National Archives
Discover all the latest news, projects and updates from blogs across The National Archives.
Most recent posts
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The collection
From curiosity to career: my first year in archives
NewOver the last year, Liv Page has been working at The National Archives as a Level 7 Archivist and Records Manager apprentice.
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The collection
Catalogue Week 2025
NewArchivist Jane Langford introduces our annual celebration of cataloguing projects at The National Archives.
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The collection
Cataloguing transatlantic slavery records: an archival history
NewCataloguer Adrian Browne traces the custodial history of the Detached Papers, investigating the legacies of Victorian-era recordkeeping.
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The collection
Cataloguing West African records
NewOur volunteers have finished cataloguing Colonial Office correspondence from Cameroons and Togoland, explore these records here.
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The collection
Tracing medical records from the First World War
Explore how we are preserving medical records from the First World War and how you can access them.
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Digital
Welcome to the new National Archives online catalogue!
We want to bring the archives to everyone, and as the first step towards that goal we’ve worked on making the online catalogue more accessible and inviting.
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Digital
Celebrating digital records
Learn more about The National Archives' digital preservation work and how you can preserve records that matter to you.
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The collection
The A–Z of the Royal Navy Captains' letters project – 'D' to 'M'
Bruno Pappalardo reveals the latest findings of the volunteer Royal Navy Captains’ letters project.
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Digital
Introducing the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure UK (EHRI-UK)
Read about our work as part of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure UK, a national body representing Holocaust-related collections in the UK.
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The collection
Secret diplomatic message deciphered after 350 years
Ruth Selman shares an exciting update to her previous blog post about a 17th-century letter written in cipher.
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The collection
Cataloguing Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service records from the Second World War
In February 2023, the Ministry of Defence began the monumental task of transferring ten million personal records to The National Archives. What do they contain?
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Research projects
Developing an enhanced dataset for the history of photography
Researchers Giorgia Tolfo and Katherine Howells reflect on their recent project focusing on the metadata in our photographic copyright collections.
