Community outreach blog - posts from 2025

Most recent posts

• Unlocking stories through cataloguing collections: Archives Revealed

  

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  28 November 2025

  Jessica Hogg explores how Archives Revealed projects are connecting communities and celebrating diversity and identity.

• The Global Second World War: Languages, cultures and legacies

  

  Published

  8 August 2025

  How did we design a workshop to explore the wide range of experiences that the Second World War resulted in for different communities in the UK?

• An archive-inspired theatre performance

  

  Published

  25 June 2025

  How did our records inspire and inform a recent theatre performance celebrating LGBTQ+ campaigns for change?

• A unique collaboration: students designing audio drama

  

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  10 June 2025

  What ideas did a group of students come up with when given the chance to design audio dramas inspired by records in The National Archives' collection?

• Three UK archives engaging new audiences for VE and VJ Day anniversaries

  

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  6 May 2025

  Get a taste of how archives across the country are using engagement grants from The National Archives to commemorate these important anniversaries.

• Reflecting on History Mysteries: a look into the life of Anne Lister

  

  Published

  7 April 2025

  Our Education team reveal how they went about researching and producing a fascinating new resource to coincide with LGBTQ+ History Month.

• Archives and Emotions book launch: reflecting on models of collaboration

  

  Published

  20 February 2025

  Iqbal Singh reflects on co-authoring a chapter for a new book on archival engagement practice.

• Looking for an old blog post?

  

  Published

  1 January 2025

  The new National Archives blogs launched in 2025, but our older posts can still be read in the UK Government Web Archive.