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The National Archives building at Kew. The National Archives (TNA; Welsh: Yr Archifau Cenedlaethol) is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. [3] Its parent department is the Department for Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [4]
In March 2022 it was announced that the archives would be relocating to The National Archives, Kew, by 2025. [1] The archives also oversees records management for Parliament, has an active outreach programme and frequently appears on radio and TV programmes.
The Public Record Office [a] (abbreviated as PRO, pronounced as three letters and referred to as the PRO), Chancery Lane in the City of London, was the guardian of the national archives of the United Kingdom from 1838 until 2003, when it was merged with the Historical Manuscripts Commission to form The National Archives, based in Kew.
Kew is the location of the Royal Botanic Gardens ("Kew Gardens"), now a World Heritage Site, which includes Kew Palace. Kew is also the home of important historical documents such as Domesday Book, which is held at The National Archives. Julius Caesar may have forded the Thames at Kew in 54 BC during the Gallic Wars. [3]
If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...
The national library was created in 1952 and became a component of the archives with the Library and Archives of Canada Act in 2004. [17] Regardless of the relative newness of the archive, Canadians reacted to the 1945 disappearance of papers from the archives about Igor Gouzenko as if it were a disturbing case of collective memory -loss.
This article contains a list of national archives. In some countries, national libraries serve the same purpose as national archives - or have archival departments. Among their more important tasks is ensuring the accessibility and preservation of the information produced by governments, both analogically and digitally, for the government ...
Of the former of these records two copies were preserved in the Chapter House at Westminster Abbey (now in the National Archives (United Kingdom) at Kew), and it has been printed by Thomas Rymer. [1] Another copy, preserved originally in the Tower of London , is now also in the National Archives .