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Five reasons to visit MI5: Official Secrets – The National Archives

Five reasons to visit MI5: Official Secrets From secret codes to never-before seen devices, here’s five reasons to visit our current MI5: Official Secrets exhibition.
1. Discover how a bizarre message about dentistry helped D-Day succeed
During the Second World War MI5 ran an extensive network of double agents ...

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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 ...

Five reasons to visit MI5: Official Secrets – The National Archives

Three UK archives engaging new audiences for VE and VJ Day anniversaries With the 80th anniversary of VE day now upon us, and VJ Day’s fast approaching, archives from all across the UK have been preparing to draw out fascinating stories about the Second World War generation from their collections.
Archives are perfectly ...

Five reasons to visit MI5: Official Secrets – The National Archives

Reflections on History and Practice 2025: Working with Memory History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an event where historians and archivists come together to consider research practice and shared interests in collections, their interpretation and use. A partnership between The National Archives, Royal Historical Society, and the Institute ...

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Mandatory bag checks introduced for all visitors Starting 29 April 2025, we are introducing new security measures to safeguard our visitors, staff and to protect our collections. Upon entering The National Archives’ building, all visitors’ bags, containers and other belongings will be searched by security staff.
Prohibited items ...

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Improvement work to our building continues Work to replace the windows in the 1970s part of our building continues and from June will move to the first floor. The work is due to be completed by the end of October. Our existing aluminium double-glazed windows are ...

Five reasons to visit MI5: Official Secrets – The National Archives

‘The British are coming’ and the outbreak of hostilities during the American Revolutionary War 250 years ago this month the American War of Independence broke out amidst the sleepy farmlands of eastern Massachusetts, which had followed the resistance to the infamous Tea Act of May 1773, and the imposition of the coercive ‘Intolerable Acts’ ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Five reasons to visit MI5: Official Secrets – 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 ...

Five reasons to visit MI5: Official Secrets – The National Archives

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 ...

Five reasons to visit MI5: Official Secrets – 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 ...

Five reasons to visit MI5: Official Secrets – The National Archives

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 ...

Five reasons to visit MI5: Official Secrets – The National Archives

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 ...

Five reasons to visit MI5: Official Secrets – The National Archives

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 ...