The collection
Researching hospital-related records
Tracing hundreds of years, PhD student Jessica Gregory outlines some of the best ways to research hospital-related records at The National Archives.
Blogs at The National Archives - posts from June 2025
Discover all the latest news, projects and updates from blogs across The National Archives.
Most recent posts
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News
Medieval experts reveal how they found Harvard’s Magna Carta
The National Archives hosted an evening with the medieval experts who recently discovered a ‘copy’ of the Magna Carta was actually an extremely rare original.
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Community outreach
An archive-inspired theatre performance
How did our records inspire and inform a recent theatre performance celebrating LGBTQ+ campaigns for change?
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The collection
A summer (spy) reading list
Inspired by our current exhibition, MI5: Official Secrets, we've drawn up a summer reading list offering both spy fiction and fact.
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The collection
Norfolk Island: the ultra-penal colony
Volunteer Dr Brenda Mortimer examines how Australia's Norfolk Island became ‘a place of the extremest punishment’ for colonial convicts in the 1820s.
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News
New windows for first floor
Work to replace the windows in the 1970s part of our building continues and from Monday 16 June will move to the first floor.
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Community outreach
A unique collaboration: students designing audio drama
What ideas did a group of students come up with when given the chance to design audio dramas inspired by records in The National Archives' collection?
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Digital
Welcome to the new National Archives blogs
We introduce you to our new blogs and explain why we’re so excited to share with you the improvements we have made.
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Digital
Designing our button
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.
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News
Human cost of working on the railways revealed in database
A new public database listing records about railway accidents is being launched at The National Archives on Thursday 5 June to coincide with Volunteers Week.
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News
Katrina scoops LHVA award in Volunteers’ Week
A volunteer at The National Archives has won a London Heritage Volunteer Award (LHVA) for her outstanding work.
