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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 hundred and sixty-six men and boys died after an underground explosion and devastating fire.
Most of the ...

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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 will made by Thomas Nash on 25 August, 1642 was found in a box of Chancery documents from the ...

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The “Mississippi Bubble” and the complex history of Haiti Many things account for Haiti’s modern troubles. A good perspective on them comes from going back in time to 1715 or so — and grappling with a far-flung narrative involving the French monarchy, a financial speculator named John Law, and ...

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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 Revealed has just awarded more than £750,000 in 16 separate grants to archives across the UK.
Recipients ...

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School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes 14 new faculty for 2025 Dean Agustín Rayo and the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) recently welcomed 14 new professors to the MIT community. They arrive with diverse backgrounds and vast knowledge in their areas of research.Naoki Egami joins MIT as ...

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

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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 Office covering Tony Blair’s administration. It also includes records from the administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
The ...

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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 award.
Archives and Emotions: International Dialogues across Past, Present and Future won the Waldo Gifford Leland ...

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What do we owe each other? MIT equips students with the tools to advance science and engineering — but a new class aims to ensure they also develop their own values and learn how to navigate conflicting viewpoints.Offered as a pilot this past spring, the multidisciplinary ...

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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 flat documents into 3D models.
The workshop includes three-dimensional versions of historic documents from our collection, including ...

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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 original.
An investigation led by Prof David Carpenter of King’s College London revealed the document held at ...

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A brief history of the global economy, through the lens of a single barge In 1989, New York City opened a new jail. But not on dry land. The city leased a barge, then called the “Bibby Resolution,” which had been topped with five stories of containers made into housing, and anchored it in ...

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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 double-glazed windows are now over 40 years old and it is time to ...

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Tiny organisms, huge implications for people Back in 1676, a Dutch cloth merchant with a keen interest in microscopes, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, discovered microbes and began cataloging them. Two hundred years later, a German doctor in current-day Poland, Robert Koch, identified the anthrax bacterium, a crucial ...

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Human cost of working on the railways revealed in database A new public database listing records about railway accidents is being launched at The National Archives on Thursday 5 June to coincide with Volunteers Week.
The Railway Work, Life & Death project makes accessible information about 4,500 railway staff killed or ...

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Katrina scoops LHVA award in Volunteers’ Week A volunteer at The National Archives has won a London Heritage Volunteer Award for her outstanding work.
Katrina Lidbetter won the Going the Extra Mile category in the annual awards managed by London Heritage Volunteering Group. She is one of a ...

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DCMS announces new members of public records advisory body Seven new members have been appointed to the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives, the independent body which advises the government on access to public records.
The appointments were made by Lisa Nandy, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and ...

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Happy & Glorious: Coronation art exhibition goes on show Stunning new artwork commissioned by the Government Art Collection to mark the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla has gone on show in our Happy & Glorious exhibition.
The free exhibition includes work by artists from across ...

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Philip Khoury to step down as vice provost for the arts MIT Provost Cynthia Barnhart has announced that Vice Provost for the Arts Philip S. Khoury will step down from the position on Aug. 31. Khoury, the Ford International Professor of History, served in the role for 19 years. After a ...

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Beneath the biotech boom It’s considered a scientific landmark: A 1975 meeting at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California, shaped a new safety regime for recombinant DNA, ensuring that researchers would apply caution to gene splicing. Those ideas have been so useful ...