From our volunteers

Most recent posts

• Celebrating Volunteers’ Week 2026

  

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  2 June 2026

  To celebrate Volunteers' week, The National Archives’ Keith Mitchell reflects on the achievements of our volunteers and their projects.

• Cataloguing the copyright collection

  

  Published

  29 May 2026

  In this blog post, Katherine Howells explores how our volunteers have catalogued copyright records and highlights the stories they can tell us.

• Cataloguing British Army officer service records

  

  Published

  13 May 2026

  Find out how our volunteers have improved catalogue descriptions for 19th-century military service records.

• Cataloguing the BT 51 and BT 50 registered designs

  

  Published

  8 May 2026

  Explore how a team of volunteers have transcribed The National Archives’ records of registered designs from 1885–1888.

• Cataloguing West African records

  

  Published

  21 November 2025

  Our volunteers have finished cataloguing Colonial Office correspondence from Cameroons and Togoland. Explore these records here.

• Tracing medical records from the First World War

  

  Published

  14 November 2025

  Explore how we are preserving medical records from the First World War and how you can access them.

• Norfolk Island: the ultra-penal colony

  

  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.