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Exhibition to explore the making of America to feature rare Declaration of Independence
We can today announce a major exhibition exploring the birth of the United States of America to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration...
Snapshot of Tudor England in Henry VIII’s ‘Domesday’
The National Archives is helping make accessible a financial survey of the Church ordered by Henry VIII after his break with Rome.
His inspectors counted...
Schools service scoops heritage award for The National Archives
Educators at The National Archives have won a prestigious prize for their history workshops.
The team, all trained teachers, won The Sandford Award...
Gresford Colliery documents head for Wrexham in first for The National Archives
The National Archives is displaying records related to the Gresford Colliery disaster in Wrexham Library to mark the 91st anniversary on 22 September 2025.
Two...
Shakespeare family will found by historian
A 1642 will which caused a legal row about William Shakespeare’s property in Stratford-upon-Avon has been discovered at The National Archives.
The...
Wind in their sails: £750,000 grants boost for archives
Design plans for Titanic, sketches by Raymond Briggs and gig posters by Martin F. Bedford will all be more accessible thanks to cataloguing grants.
Archives...
New accreditation awards to archive services
Following a recent Archive Service Accreditation Panel, the UK Archive Service Accreditation Committee is pleased to announce that the following archive...
Latest release of Cabinet Office and Prime Ministers’ papers
We have digitised 200 files which have been released by the Cabinet Office.
This release includes previously retained files from the Prime Minister’s...
Emotions in the archives: study scoops international award
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...
3D models help visually impaired students dive into history
Today, The National Archives is launching a new workshop for students who are blind and visually impaired, using optacartography – a technique for transforming...
Medieval experts reveal how they found Harvard’s Magna Carta
The National Archives hosted an evening with the medieval experts who recently discovered a ‘copy’ of the Magna Carta was actually an extremely rare...
New Windows for First Floor
Work to replace the windows in the 1970s part of our building continues and from Monday 16 June will move to the first floor. Our existing aluminium...
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