Everyone is welcome to use The National Archives, whether to research our collections in our reading rooms, visit our exhibitions or use any of the other services and facilities we provide. We kindly ...

We offer training to develop skills, knowledge and understanding within the archives sector. Our training sessions are relevant from both an organisational and individual perspective. Please email us ...

Choose from three workshops that can be delivered at The National Archives, at your school or online via Zoom. There are also online teaching resources available for you to use in your classroom. All ...

Our record copying service provides digital or paper copies of documents from our collection. If you are looking to obtain a digital copy of a document from our collection, you must first start by ...

Suggested inquiry questions: What caused the Great Fire of London and how did they stop it from happening again? Potential activities: The class could make a class mural of the Great Fire of London or ...

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 ...

Would you like to meet our tommy, Henry Fairhurst? Students share an hour in the life of a soldier from a Pals Battalion, Private Henry Fairhurst (played by a professional actor), as he talks about ...

Our Chief Executive and Keeper, Saul Nassé, has presented his first Archive Service Accreditation certificate since joining The National Archives in the summer. Saul presented the certificate to ...

We are expert advisers in information and records management and fulfil a leadership role for the archive sector. We are also a heritage institution, with a wide variety of records, expertise and ...

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 ...

Here are the fees for our record-copying service, which provides digital or paper copies of documents from our collection: Includes the time taken on the research and sending out the results.

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