Read about the latest work from our volunteers and the incredible stories they have found in the archive. 2026-05-21T08:54:40Z https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/page/421/ https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/static/assets/images/icon-256x256.png 2026-05-13T09:00:00Z 2026-05-14T13:55:35.108694Z https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/page/1324/

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

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

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

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

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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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