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Podcast lecture by military historian Professor Richard Holmes
The Office of Public Sector Information and The National Archives are to merge
The National Archives website is now searchable at the touch of a button
Online release of 1911 census
Current vacancies
A selection of files recently released at The National Archives
Claim to the throne by Anthony Hall, alleged descendant of Henry VIII
William John Christopher Vassall, tried for spying
Thomas and Albert Pierrepoint, executioners
Cabinet Secretaries' Notebooks
The "feckless" British schoolgirls that solicited American GIs
Scheduling Diaries for Winston Churchill
MI5 files reveal the unlikely spies in our midst
Good Time Girl and the Cuban Missile Crisis
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