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Experts sought for The Manorial and Tithe Documents Panel New members are being sought for a panel which advises The Master of the Rolls on historical documents related to the manorial system and tithes.
Manorial documents relate to a type of land ownership known as copyhold, abolished in 1922. Tithing ...

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£1 million project explores lasting impact of Radclyffe Hall’s radical novel Researchers have embarked on a £1 million project to examine the lasting impact of Radclyffe Hall’s radical novel “The Well of Loneliness”.
Published in 1928, the book follows the life of Stephen Gordon who falls in love with another woman and ...

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Cornelia Parker creates new work for Coronation exhibition Stunning new artwork commissioned by the Government Art Collection to mark the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla goes on show at The National Archives from 2 May.
The free exhibition, Happy & Glorious, showcases work by ...

Mary II’s love letters to William III – The National Archives

Mary II’s love letters to William III Our early modern volunteering team have been busy cataloguing a series of documents, SP 8, known as ‘King William’s Chest’. It is a collection of State Papers personally curated by William himself for his own reference. Among the official papers ...

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Exploring the impacts of technology on everyday citizens Give Dwai Banerjee credit: He doesn’t pick easy topics to study.Banerjee is an MIT scholar who in a short time has produced a wide-ranging body of work about the impact of technology on society — and who, as a trained ...

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Reflecting on History Mysteries: a look into the life of Anne Lister This LGBTQ+ History Month, The National Archives launched an engaging educational resource for Key Stage 3 students: History Mysteries: Anne Lister. Developed with diverse records specialist Vicky Iglikowski-Broad, Shibden Hall, and Calderdale Archives, this resource is the first in a ...

Mary II’s love letters to William III – The National Archives

The Long March to Freedom 1944–1945 Content note: This blog includes documents that describe the inhumane treatment of prisoners of war at the end of the Second World War.
‘The Great March West’, ‘The Long March’, ‘The Long Walk’, ‘The Long Trek’, ‘The Black March’, ‘The Bread ...

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The pannotype mystery: cracking the code of a forgotten photographic process In 2019, conservators at The National Archives made an intriguing discovery while examining The Design Registers, a collection within the Board of Trade records. Among the designs, they found several early photographs mounted on an unusual black backing material.
The distinctive ...

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Tanks to Botanics – archives win accredited status Two radically different archives, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and The Tank Museum at Bovington, have won accredited status for the first time for their archive services.
The award shows they meet the UK standard for managing collections and enabling public access ...

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Decoding a medieval mystery manuscript Two years ago, MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound volume from the 1300s containing the ...

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Parliamentary group receive warm welcome This week we welcomed a delegation from the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Archives and History to learn more about the work of The National Archives.
Dr Jess Nelson shows some of our iconic documents to members of the APPG. From ...

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“An AI future that honors dignity for everyone” Ben Vinson III, president of Howard University, made a compelling call for artificial intelligence to be “developed with wisdom,” as he delivered MIT’s annual Karl Taylor Compton Lecture on campus Monday. The broad-ranging talk posed a series of searching questions about ...

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Professor Andrew Wathey reappointed as Chair of The National Archives Board Professor Andrew Wathey CBE has been reappointed for a second term as Chair of The National Archives Board. The term will begin in April 2025 and run for 5 years.
Andrew was Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Northumbria University from 2008 ...

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Archives Revealed awards new cataloguing grants and first-ever consortium grant Archives Revealed has awarded 12 cataloguing grants and its first ever consortium grant to archives across the UK.
Archives Revealed is a partnership programme between The National Archives, the Pilgrim Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and The National Lottery Heritage Fund which ...

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The history of ‘indecent advertisements’ in public toilets The state has long been preoccupied with ideas of ‘decency’. Attempting to protect citizens from committing or being involved in ‘indecent’ practices, it has legislated against them.
Public toilets, being at the same time public and private, have emerged as places ...

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Major grant to fund research into the history of transatlantic slavery The National Archives has been awarded a £1 million grant by Lloyd’s Register Foundation for a new, collaborative research programme on the history of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people.
PASSAGE (Partnership for Transatlantic Slavery Scholarship, Archiving and Global Exchange) will ...

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Archives and Emotions book launch: reflecting on models of collaboration On Thursday 23 January 2025, The National Archives hosted the official launch of a new Bloomsbury edited collection Archives and Emotions: International Dialogues Across Past, Present, and Future (Nov 2024). The collection features a chapter I co-wrote with Professor Kevin ...

Mary II’s love letters to William III – The National Archives

Narrating ephemeral archival presence: LGBTQ+ histories and Colonial Office records Examining the history of LGTBQ+ lives in Britain is not complete without extending this examination to LGBTQ+ lives in the British Empire. Laws and social attitudes towards LGBTQ+ people in these countries were set by British colonial governments. For example, ...

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The National Archives to establish new hub for community-led research in the cultural heritage sector Staff working in galleries, libraries, archives and museums around the UK will soon be able to ask The National Archives for help funding community-led research projects, following a generous £1 million award by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
The ...

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Seeking permanent home for John le Carré literary archive The John le Carré literary archive has been accepted in lieu of tax by the government.
You can find more details in the latest Acceptance in Lieu report published by Arts Council England. The John le Carré archive is reported at ...