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The collection blog - June 2025

Learn how the stories hidden in our documents are uncovered by our experts and volunteers. Find out behind-the-scenes information about how we care for our records, and get tips on how you can do your own research.

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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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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