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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]
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 Kew is also the home of important historical documents such as Domesday Book, which is held at The National Archives.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]
The Kew building photographed in 2002, shortly before the name change to The National Archives. Until 1852 no right existed for the general public to consult the records freely, even for scholarly purposes, despite the intention of the Public Record Office Act 1838 to enable public access. Fees were payable by lawyers who in return were ...
This is a list of archives in the United Kingdom. As of 2009 [update] there were 122 national, 654 local, 328 university, 1,224 special and 61 business archives. [ 1 ]
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.
On 21 June 2006, it was announced that the National Archives' staff and residual services at the FRC would be relocating to the National Archives at Kew by the end of 2008. [1] Official press releases were vague about plans for the births, marriages and deaths indexes housed on the ground floor.
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.
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 .