News
Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life
We are collaborating with international academics to open up access to the largest collection of testimony of enslaved people from the Caribbean.
Blogs at The National Archives - posts from 2025
Discover all the latest news, projects and updates from blogs across The National Archives.
Blog posts, page 2 of 8
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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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News
Exhibition to explore the making of America to feature rare Declaration of Independence
A major 2026 exhibition will explore the birth of the United States of America to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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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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News
Snapshot of Tudor England in Henry VIII’s ‘Domesday’
The National Archives is helping make accessible a financial survey of the Church ordered by Henry VIII after his break with Rome.
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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.
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The collection
Think your ancestor might have worked in intelligence? Where to start your research
If you have a family legend that a relative worked in intelligence, here are our top tips to get started with your research.
