Dr Graham Moore

Records Specialist – Early Modern Parliament

Articles by Graham

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The American Revolution: A global war (Part 2)

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In the second of our two-part series on the American Revolution, we zoom out to explore the conflict through records held at The National Archives.
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The Black Loyalist and spy who fled to 18th-century London

Scipio Handley, a Black fisherman from South Carolina, took a great personal risk when he sided with the British during the American Revolutionary War.
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The American privateer and the secret copy of the Declaration of Independence

Uncover the story of the Dalton, and her rare copy of the Declaration of Independence.
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Finding a new copy of the US Declaration of Independence

In May 2026, a volunteer working on a cataloguing project at The National Archives made an astonishing discovery.
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The mysterious Baltimore copy of the US Declaration of Independence

We hold an original version of the Declaration that is completely unique: the only known copy attributed to John Dunlap’s shop in Baltimore.
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Anglo-Indigenous diplomacy in colonial North America

Our records offer unique insight into the careful diplomacy that took place in North America during the 18th century.