The National Archives - UK government records and information management

Improving our services at Kew

Building works may cause disruption from late summer 2007 to spring 2008. Find out more

What's newRSS news feed

• Personalise your searches on The National Archives website
  
• The National Archives goes mobile
  
• First World War soldiers' pension records online
  
• The National Archives and Microsoft join forces to preserve the UK's digital heritage
• 'Your Archives' now open for contributions
• more what's new...

Latest document releases

• 1948 discussions between the US and UK about Kashmir
• Cabinet Secretaries' Notebooks: Egypt, jam making and the Coronation
• List of files released on 5 August
• Theft of Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey
• Lady Chatterley's lover
• List of recently released files on 29 June
• see other recent releases...

In the name of God, Amen: wills for family history

Online exhibitionssee more exhibitions...

• Palaeography
• Focus on film
• Nelson, Trafalgar,
  and those who served

Professional information management

• Public Sector Information
• Records management
• Electronic records management
• Policy and legislation
• more professional information management...

OPSI sets standards and provides a practical framework for opening up and encouraging the re-use of public sector information.