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 ...

Imaging of documents using a hand-held camera, smartphone, tablet, or laptop is permitted in the reading rooms. It is important to remember that when imaging documents, good handling takes priority, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tagged files are typically comprised of paper, but may also contain other materials and formats, such as photographs, booklets, folded maps or loose objects. They have a protective cover and are ...

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 this year’s Catalogue ...

When I came I found Mr. Catesby reasonable well, Mr. Percy, both the Wrights, Mr. Rokewood and Mr. Grant. I asked them what they resolved to do. They answered “We mean here to die”. I said again I ...

A cataloguing project on the series CO 730 opened up new windows onto our collection of Colonial Office correspondence about Iraq under British mandate in the 1920s. This presentation explores stories ...

This blog looks at a volunteer transcription project which was part of our Windrush 75 programme, where volunteers transcribed data from three passenger lists (the Ormonde, Almanzora, and Empire ...

Caroline Catchpole explores a recent data enhancement project she undertook to research and enhance authority files of women in The National Archives’ online catalogue, Discovery. Caroline works in ...

The size, weight and condition of rolled parchment documents can present some handling challenges. Rolled parchment documents may be made of several membranes sewn end-to-end or sewn together at the ...