While respondents reported that their archives were open most weeks of the year, they were only open for 21 to 22 hours a week on average, the equivalent of three days out of seven. This inevitably ...

Inviting responses The survey was open to responses between 8 January 2024 and 15 March 2024, to give people an appropriate amount of time to respond. Visitor numbers While respondents reported that ...

The National Archives (UK) is launching the first-ever annual survey of the UK’s archive sector in partnership with National Records Scotland, the Scottish Council on Archives, Welsh Government, ...

As part of our leadership role, we’re here to support the archives sector with advice and guidance. If you have a query, please feel free to email us or to get in contact with a member of our expert ...

The unit war diaries (record series WO 95) represent one of the most popular collections held by The National Archives. War diaries were kept for two main reasons: to provide an accurate record of ...

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 ...

The award of accreditation is made by the Archive Service Accreditation Panel. Archive services can be awarded either full or provisional accredited status. Find out more about the award of full and ...

More than 81% of The National Archives’ collections are made from paper. This includes tagged files, flat maps and plans, rolls, bundles, volumes and artworks. During manufacture, wood or other ...

This blog is about a recently completed project to catalogue by name all the ships appearing in the series WO 435, Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMS): Ships’ Cards. James Cronan is the ...

In the final week of November each year we hold Catalogue Week, a celebration of projects and initiatives currently taking place at The National Archives. You can explore all of our Catalogue Week ...

In this blog, Olivia Gecseg explains the work that a team of volunteers started earlier this year, transcribing records of design copyright registrations for the period 1884–1888, from volumes known ...