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How and why The National Archives move documents offsite For an operation as large as The National Archives, having enough storage space is a constant challenge. As well as our main site at Kew, London, we also use the offsite storage facility DeepStore, located at the Winsford salt mine ...

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World leaders who signed No 10 Downing Street visitor books Three Downing Street visitor books are included in this December’s Cabinet Office file release. The red leather-bound volumes are the first ever released by the Government and provide a fascinating insight into eminent visitors passing through the doors of Number ...

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What do we know about the economics of AI? For all the talk about artificial intelligence upending the world, its economic effects remain uncertain. There is massive investment in AI but little clarity about what it will produce.Examining AI has become a significant part of Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu’s ...

How and why The National Archives move documents offsite – The National Archives

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light in six documents This autumn sees the long-awaited broadcast of the dramatisation of Hilary Mantel’s final book in her Wolf Hall trilogy, a notable event for those of us fascinated by the Tudor period. It is being released in the UK by the ...

How and why The National Archives move documents offsite – The National Archives

Exploring early photography through collaborative digital experimentation Recent advancements in AI, improvements to collaboration platforms, and new tools for telling stories offer exciting opportunities for how researchers and the public understand and engage with the past. To explore some of these, The National Archives is hosting a ...

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How mass migration remade postwar Europe Migrants have become a flashpoint in global politics. But new research by an MIT political scientist, focused on West Germany and Poland after World War II, shows that in the long term, those countries developed stronger states, more prosperous economies, ...

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Extraordinary new clue about the Princes in the Tower found at The National Archives Extraordinary new evidence has been found at The National Archives which offers a fresh clue about what happened to The Princes in the Tower.
An entry in a 16th century registry of wills shows a treasured possession belonging to elder prince, ...

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Latest accredited archive services announced Following a recent Archive Service Accreditation Panel, the UK Archive Service Accreditation Committee is pleased to announce that the following archive services have been awarded accredited status for the first time:
Cardiff University Library
Northamptonshire Archive Service
All accredited archive services must apply ...

How and why The National Archives move documents offsite – The National Archives

Catalogue Week 2024 This final week in November marks our annual celebration of a selection of cataloguing projects and other initiatives currently taking place across The National Archives. Catalogue Week is now in its fourth year as an online event and brings together ...

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Samurai in Japan, then engineers at MIT In 1867, five Japanese students took a long sea voyage to Massachusetts for some advanced schooling. The group included a 13-year-old named Eiichirō Honma, who was from one of the samurai families that ruled Japan. Honma expected to become a samurai ...

How and why The National Archives move documents offsite – The National Archives

HIV and AIDS Archives: a workshop and a symposium The National Archives holds an extensive collection of material related to the HIV and AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. This includes cabinet papers and records documenting the government response, public health campaigns, and scientific research connected to the spread and ...

How and why The National Archives move documents offsite – The National Archives

The Detached Papers: New records on the transatlantic slave trade on Discovery Content note: This blog highlights documents that contain racist language and descriptions of the conditions faced by enslaved Africans. Original language is preserved here to accurately represent our records and to help us fully understand the past.
Over the last few months, ...

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The National Archives Welcomes New Board Members
The National Archives welcomes the appointment of two new non-executive Board members, Lopa Patel MBE and Nigel Baker. They replace Baroness Ros Scott of Needham Market and Mark Richards who both step down on 30 December 2024 after highly ...

How and why The National Archives move documents offsite – The National Archives

Researching the 1934 Gresford Colliery disaster If you’ve watched the TV series Welcome to Wrexham you will know that it follows the fortunes of Wrexham AFC and the local community. If you made it past the disappointment of the football club failing to get promoted at ...

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Walking through archived colonial histories, part 3: Tasmania to Perth I’ve been journeying through The National Archives inspired by historian Corinne Fowler’s latest talk with us, about her work ‘Walking through countryside’s forgotten colonial histories’. Collections experts Philippa Hellawell, Elizabeth Haines and Chris Day have joined me to re-enact one ...

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Walking through archived colonial histories, part 2: Tolpuddle to Tasmania Inspired by our recent event with historian Corinne Fowler about her work ‘Walking through countryside’s forgotten colonial histories’, I invited collections experts Philippa Hellawell, Elizabeth Haines and Chris Day to join me to re-enact one of Fowler’s walks – in ...

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Walking through archived colonial histories, part 1: Charborough to Barbados Methodologies is an exciting new event series by the The National Archives. It brings together researchers, practitioners, and creatives who generate new knowledge through the interrogation and disruption of archives.
In our event on 24 September we were joined by historian ...

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Royal Flying Corps and Successors: World War One Gallantry Award Medal Index Cards Released The National Archives, in partnership with Forces War Records, the leading military family history website from Ancestry®, has launched a digital collection of Royal Flying Corps and successors: World War One Gallantry Award Medal Index Cards.
The collection contains almost 12,000 ...

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New initiative to improve access to Holocaust-related collections We have become a founding member of EHRI-UK – the national body representing Holocaust-related collections in the United Kingdom. The other founding members are the Wiener Holocaust Library, the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London and the ...

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The National Archives to create centre of excellence for heritage science and conservation research
We have been awarded £1.3m to upgrade our analytical research laboratory creating a centre of excellence available to collections throughout the UK and beyond.
The award is part of the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council’s new Research Infrastructure for Conservation ...