Standing here you can see inside the reading rooms, where lots of people come to look at archive documents.
Where do you think we keep the documents when they are not being used?
It’s not like a museum with things in cases – we keep documents in huge rooms called repositories.
There are 8 repositories here at The National Archives and they are each the size of a football pitch!
There are lots of different types of documents, and they can be made from a variety of materials too. You can look at some examples of these in a handling box…