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• Exhibition to explore the making of America to feature rare Declaration of Independence

  

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  21 October 2025

  A major 2026 exhibition will explore the birth of the United States of America to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

• Snapshot of Tudor England in Henry VIII’s ‘Domesday’

  

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  6 October 2025

  The National Archives is helping make accessible a financial survey of the Church ordered by Henry VIII after his break with Rome.

• Gresford Colliery documents head for Wrexham in first for The National Archives

  

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  18 September 2025

  The National Archives is displaying records related to the Gresford Colliery disaster in Wrexham Library to mark the 91st anniversary on 22 September 2025.

• Schools service scoops heritage award for The National Archives

  

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  18 September 2025

  Educators at The National Archives have won a prestigious prize for their history workshops.

• Shakespeare family will found by historian

  

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  21 August 2025

  A 1642 will which caused a legal row about William Shakespeare’s property in Stratford-upon-Avon has been discovered at The National Archives.

• Wind in their sails: £750,000 grants boost for archives

  

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  18 August 2025

  Design plans for Titanic, sketches by Raymond Briggs and gig posters by Martin F. Bedford will all be more accessible thanks to cataloguing grants.

• New accreditation awards to archive services

  

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  6 August 2025

  The Science and Industry Museum and the North Lanarkshire Archives have been accredited for the first time.

• Experts sought for The Manorial and Tithe Documents Panel

  

  Published

  6 August 2025

  New members are being sought for a panel which advises The Master of the Rolls on historical documents related to the manorial system and tithes.

• Latest release of Cabinet Office and Prime Ministers’ papers

  

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  22 July 2025

  We have digitised 200 files which have been released by the Cabinet Office.

• Emotions in the archives: study scoops international award

  

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  17 July 2025

  The editors of a ground-breaking new study about emotions and archives which includes work by a researcher at The National Archives has won a prestigious award.

• 3D models help visually impaired students dive into history

  

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  10 July 2025

  We are launching a new workshop for students who are blind and visually impaired, using a technique that transforms flat documents into 3D models.

• Medieval experts reveal how they found Harvard’s Magna Carta

  

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  25 June 2025

  The National Archives hosted an evening with the medieval experts who recently discovered a ‘copy’ of the Magna Carta was actually an extremely rare original.