Outreach blog
Unlocking stories through cataloguing collections: Archives Revealed
Jessica Hogg explores how Archives Revealed projects are connecting communities and celebrating diversity and identity.
Blogs at The National Archives - posts from November 2025
Discover all the latest news, projects and updates from blogs across The National Archives.
Most recent posts
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Collection blog
From curiosity to career: my first year in archives
Over the last year, Liv Page has been working at The National Archives as a Level 7 Archivist and Records Manager apprentice.
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News
Fresh chapter as archives gain accredited status
Six contrasting archives from different parts of Britain have won accredited status for the first time.
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Collection blog
Catalogue Week 2025
Archivist Jane Langford introduces our annual celebration of cataloguing projects at The National Archives.
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Collection blog
Cataloguing transatlantic slavery records: an archival history
Cataloguer Adrian Browne traces the custodial history of the Detached Papers, investigating the legacies of Victorian-era recordkeeping.
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Collection blog
Cataloguing West African records
Our volunteers have finished cataloguing Colonial Office correspondence from Cameroons and Togoland. Explore these records here.
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News
Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life
We are collaborating with international academics to open up access to the largest collection of testimony of enslaved people from the Caribbean.
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Collection blog
Tracing medical records from the First World War
Explore how we are preserving medical records from the First World War and how you can access them.
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Digital blog
Welcome to the new National Archives online catalogue!
We want to bring the archives to everyone, and as the first step towards that goal we’ve worked on making the online catalogue more accessible and inviting.
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Digital blog
Celebrating digital records
Learn more about The National Archives' digital preservation work and how you can preserve records that matter to you.
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Collection blog
The A–Z of the Royal Navy Captains' letters project – 'D' to 'M'
Bruno Pappalardo reveals the latest findings of the volunteer Royal Navy Captains’ letters project.
