Time Travel Trail: Stop 1

A metal sign on stone inside a building. Three crosses with poppies on have been placed on top of the sign.

What does this sign call this building? Click here to if you want to read a transcript.

What kind of treasure do you think we have?

Clue: the word ‘archive’ might help you!

We call these treasures documents. In an archive, documents are pieces of information which are written down or kept on paper which can help us to learn about things that happened in the past. At The National Archives we look after documents that are hundreds of years old, and some that were made very recently.