The National Archives - UK government records and information management

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• The National Archives wins award for digital preservation
  
• Nonconformist birth, marriage and death records online
  
• OPSI asks users to contribute to new web channel
  
• The National Archives and Microsoft join forces to preserve the UK's digital heritage
• 'Your Archives' now open for contributions
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Latest document releases

• Rudolph Hess in Spandau prison
• Highlights from recently released files
• George Orwell, suspected communist
• Latest files from the Security Service
• 1948 discussions between the US and UK about Kashmir
• Cabinet Secretaries' Notebooks: Egypt, jam making and the Coronation
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Army deaths, marriages and births 1761-1913

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