The Inter-Aid Committee for Children, 20 Gordon Square, London, W.C.1, a voluntary organisation which originated out of The Save The Children Fund, is arranging to bring large numbers of refugee ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this recorded presentation, Charlotte Smith explains the project to catalogue the charitable trust deeds found in the Chancery close rolls (C 54) for the period 1736–1903. It explores how and why ...

In this video interview, Elizabeth Haines explores the series CO 691 with two historians from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), George Hay and John Burke. Thanks to volunteer time and ...

In this blog, Dr. Jessamy Carlson blog discusses the latest developments in the cataloguing of WO 399, nursing service records, detailing the expanded coverage of the collection, and provides a case ...

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 ...

In this blog, Jack Ord explains the processes and challenges of cataloguing The National Archives’ biggest ever acquisition of military service personnel records, talks about some of the material ...

This blog from Dr K Faith Lawrence introduces the key user groups involved when we developed a new system for managing catalogue data, and how input from those communities fed into our design process.