News - posts from 2025

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• Improvement work to our building continues

  

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  17 April 2025

  Work to replace the windows in the 1970s part of our building continues and from June will move to the first floor.

• £1 million project explores lasting impact of Radclyffe Hall’s radical novel

  

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  11 April 2025

  Researchers have embarked on a £1 million project to examine the lasting impact of Radclyffe Hall’s radical novel The Well of Loneliness.

• Cornelia Parker creates new work for Coronation exhibition

  

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  10 April 2025

  Stunning new artwork commissioned to mark the Coronation goes on show at The National Archives from 2 May.

• Tanks to Botanics – archives win accredited status

  

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  27 March 2025

  The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and The Tank Museum at Bovington, have won accredited status for the first time for their archive services.

• Parliamentary group receive warm welcome

  

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  20 March 2025

  This week we welcomed a delegation from the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Archives and History to learn more about the work of The National Archives.

• Professor Andrew Wathey reappointed as Chair of The National Archives Board

  

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  13 March 2025

  Professor Wathey has been reappointed for a second term as Chair of The National Archives Board. The term will begin in April 2025 and run for 5 years.

• Archives Revealed awards new cataloguing grants and first-ever consortium grant

  

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  24 February 2025

  Archives Revealed has awarded 12 cataloguing grants and its first ever consortium grant to archives across the UK.

• Major grant to fund research into the history of transatlantic slavery

  

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  20 February 2025

  The National Archives has been awarded a £1 million grant for a new, collaborative research on the history of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people.

• MI5: Official Secrets exhibition opens in the spring

  

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  14 February 2025

  Today, we can announce a groundbreaking exhibition in partnership with MI5 exploring the vital work of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency.

• The National Archives to establish new hub for community-led research in the cultural heritage sector

  

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  7 February 2025

  Staff of galleries, libraries, archives and museums around the UK will soon be able to ask The National Archives for help funding community research projects.

• Seeking permanent home for John le Carré literary archive

  

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  4 February 2025

  The John le Carré literary archive has been accepted in lieu of tax by the government.

• The National Archives launches guidance for archivists working in fast response situations

  

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  30 January 2025

  Today The National Archives has launched new guidance for archivists about rapid response collecting.