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<title>The National Archives will be closed from 21 to 27 January 2008</title>
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			<description>We regret that The National Archives at Kew will be closed to the public from Monday 21 to Sunday 27 January 2008 inclusive. We will reopen at 09:00 on Monday 28 January 2008. This is to enable us to carry out building works as part of the improvement programme we are implementing at Kew.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>30-year rule review - terms of reference published</title>
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			<description>The Prime Minister announced on 25 October that the Government has commissioned a review of the date by which departments must transfer records to The National Archives and the date at which records become "historical".</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>New book explores Cabinet debates over nuclear weapons</title>
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			<description>Peter Hennessy's new book, Cabinets and the Bomb, reveals top-level private debates about Britain's use of nuclear weapons. Launched at The National Archives last night, the book contains declassified Cabinet papers that reveal the private debates between prime ministers, civil servants, scientists and intelligence officers as they made decisions about Britain´s nuclear weapons.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The National Archives wins award for digital preservation</title>
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			<description>The National Archives is celebrating its victory at the Conservation Awards 2007, winning the award for digital preservation. The award recognises leadership and practical advancement in the new and challenging field of digital preservation</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Nonconformist birth, marriage and death records online</title>
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			<description>The National Archives' collection of nonconformist birth, marriage and death records from 1567 goes online today for the first time</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Archives accepted in lieu of tax</title>
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			<description>Archives accepted in lieu of tax: family and estate papers of the Harcourt family, Viscounts Harcourt, and papers of Sir Richard Francis Burton, explorer</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Archives join forces to celebrate human rights</title>
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			<description>The Archive Awareness Campaign launches today, with archives across the UK planning special events to commemorate the history of human rights.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Personalise your searches on The National Archives website</title>
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			<description>Register with us today to customise your search results, save your searches, add bookmarks to your favourite web pages and receive recommendations from our bookshop based on your search history.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Mobile website for The National Archives</title>
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			<description>You can now keep in touch with The National Archives on your mobile phone or PDA.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Ex-library books clearance</title>
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			<description>On Tuesday 21 August 2007 The National Archives is holding a free one-day clearance of library books and finding aids.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>First World War soldiers' pension records online</title>
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			<description>The pension records of almost one million soldiers who fought in the First World War are now available to search and download from Ancestry.co.uk </description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Human Rights through the eyes of history: a new online exhibition</title>
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			<description>Although the concept of human rights as we understand it today was unknown until modern times, people in Britain have fought since the medieval period to gain the rights, freedoms and liberties we all enjoy today. To illustrate this essential part of history, The National Archives has launched a new online exhibition tracing the evolution of our human, social and civil rights from Magna Carta to the establishment of the Welfare State.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The National Archives and Microsoft join forces to preserve the UK's digital heritage</title>
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			<description>Microsoft and The National Archives today announced a Memorandum of Understanding (M.O.U) ensuring preservation of the nation´s digital records from the past, present and into the future. Microsoft will make available to The National Archives a system, which combines previous versions of Windows and Office, to help solve problems of managing historical records based on legacy Microsoft Office formats</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Surplus used microfilms offered for disposal</title>
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			<description>Following the introduction of online access in the reading rooms at Kew, The National Archives is offering the following batch of redundant microfilms, free, on a first-come, first-served basis</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The National Archives wins Jodi award for excellence in website accessibility</title>
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			<description>An innovative project from The National Archives has won a prestigious Jodi Award for excellence in accessible museum, library and archive technology.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Government commits to finding a solution to preserving its digital information</title>
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			<description>Vital government information is becoming increasingly fragile and could be lost forever unless something is done to keep up with the rapid pace of technological change.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Southwell Workhouse and Poor Law Union papers now available online</title>
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			<description>The National Archives and The National Trust are launching a new online resource for general, family, and local historians, which brings to life the conditions of a Victorian workhouse. For the first time you can view these previously long forgotten records online and piece together history from a time when Britain was the workshop of the world!</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>'Your Archives' now open for contributions </title>
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			<description>Your Archives is a ground-breaking new resource, which has recently been launched as part of The National Archives' online services. It is a virtual community of record users where people can share their knowledge of archival sources held by The National Archives and by other archives throughout the UK. </description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>400th anniversary of Jamestown settlement</title>
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			<description>Sunday, 13 May 2007 is the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The National Archives announces its partner in digitising the 1911 Census</title>
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			<description>The National Archives is delighted to announce that ScotlandOnline will partner the UK government´s official archive in the forthcoming project to put the 1911 census for England and Wales online. </description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Tickets sell out for the Religious Archives Group conference supported by The National Archives</title>
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			<description>In association with The National Archives, the Religious Archives Group is looking at The State of Religious Archives in the UK Today at its 2007 conference on 26 March.  Morning papers, given at the event by experts in their fields, will provide overviews of Anglican, Catholic and Nonconformist archives.</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>New portal offers insight into slavery 200 years ago</title>
			<link>http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20080107210935/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/154.htm?news=rss</link>
			<description>The exhibition draws together a range of historical documents and information describing Britain's involvement in slavery and the slave trade, and finally its eventual abolition. The Act was passed on 25 March 1807, 26 years before the Emancipation Act (1833) which led to the gradual abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire.</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Prisoner 4099: From the Victorian age to the Internet age</title>
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			<description>The National Archives has collaborated with a group of visually impaired children to create an innovative web-based resource looking at crime and punishment in the Victorian era. It focuses on the case of William Towers, a boy from Richmond in Surrey.  In 1872, at the age of only 12, William was imprisoned and sentenced to one month´s hard labour.  His heinous crime was stealing two pet rabbits.</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>New online exhibition opens up 300 years of Caribbean history</title>
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			<description>Caribbean Histories Revealed, a new online exhibition from The National Archives, launches on Tuesday 6 March. The exhibition traces the history of the British Caribbean through Colonial Office records from the 17th century to 1926. From maps and photographs, to letters and petitions, it brings to life over 300 years of life in the Caribbean.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Non-parochial, foreign and maritime Births, Marriages and Deaths digitisation project</title>
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			<description>Under the Licensed Internet Associateship scheme The National Archives has signed a license with Genealogy Supplies Limited to scan the existing microform and place online the following series records:</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>British army World War One service and pension records go online</title>
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			<description>Ancestry.co.uk launches British Army World War One service and pension records – second most viewed collections at The National Archives</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The National Archives project wins £800,000 grant to digitise UK Cabinet papers 1917 - 1975</title>
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			<description>The National Archives has won a major grant from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the UK funding council devoted to supporting pioneering information technology programmes in education.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Contribute to the Government's consultation on disability</title>
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			<description>The Government is committed to achieving equality for all disabled people by 2025. As part of this commitment, The National Archives is giving readers the opportunity to contribute to the Office for Disability Issues.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The National Archives wins grant to digitise Cabinet papers</title>
			<link>http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20080107210935/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/147.htm?news=rss</link>
			<description>The National Archives has won a major grant from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the UK funding council devoted to supporting pioneering information technology programmes in education.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The National Archives supports Religious Archives Conference</title>
			<link>http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20080107210935/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/146.htm?news=rss</link>
			<description>The National Archives and the Religious Archives Group affiliated to the Society of Archivists are joining forces to stage a conference to consider 'The state of religious archives in the UK today' at the British Library on 26 March.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Update on closures in January and February</title>
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			<description>We regret that, due to national industrial action, The National Archives at Kew will be closed to the public on Wednesday 31 January.</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The National Archives wins e-Government National Award</title>
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			<description>The National Archives digitisation programme was a winner at the e-Government National Awards 2006 in the category for Central government Central e-Government excellence in Take-up and usage growth: For delivering high and growing take-up of an e-enabled service through effective service delivery and marketing.</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Union between Britain and France</title>
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			<description>A file (DO 35/5264) held at The National Archives, and featured in BBC Radio 4's Document programme on 15 January, reveals that during the Suez Crisis in 1956 the French Prime Minister Guy Mollet proposed a union between Britain and France.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Emigration: passenger lists go online</title>
			<link>http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20080107210935/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/searchthearchives/migration.htm?news=rss</link>
			<description>Migration records [Passenger Lists] are invaluable in helping you find your ancestors. Board of Trade Passenger Lists, Outwards (BT 27), 1890-1960, contain the names of people leaving ports in the United Kingdom and Ireland for final destinations outside Europe and the Mediterranean.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>1911 census - decision notice</title>
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			<description>The 1911 census must remain closed as a whole document until 2012, to protect personally sensitive information. However the Information Commissioner’s decision means that The National Archives must supply some information from the 1911 census in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>The Government has accepted the following manuscripts in lieu of tax and they now await allocation to suitable repositories.</description>
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			<title>Report on 'Meet the Chief Executive Officer day' at Kew</title>
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			<description>Report on 'Meet the Chief Executive Officer day' at Kew, 16 November 2006</description>
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			<title>New look for The National Archives website homepage</title>
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			<description>The redesign comes after an extensive consultation period with a representative selection of online users. Some web visitors were concerned that the old homepage did not adequately introduce the scope and nature of the content available on The National Archives website as a whole.</description>
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			<description>The award recognises any project or service that has shown outstanding innovation in improving the user experience. The Information Industry Awards are hosted by Online Information 2006 and Information World Review to recognise the achievements of information teams, information and content management projects, vendors and individual information professionals.</description>
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			<description>Colin Jackson has been helping black children to overcome the hurdles of finding out about your family history.  At the Caribbean Family History Day at The National Archives in Kew on Saturday 25 November, he took part in a discussion about his experiences on the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? and the need for people to embrace and understand their heritage.</description>
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			<description>The National Archives has been short-listed for the e-Government National Awards 2006. The Awards highlight the UK's best services which improve citizen and business transaction with councils, central government departments and other public sector organisations.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Immigrants' registration cards go online</title>
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			<description>The registration cards, held by The National Archives in Kew, of more than 1,000 foreign nationals who came to the London area between 1914 and 1991 have now gone online.</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The National Archives and The Office of Public Sector Information have merged</title>
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			<description>The new organisation, under the banner of The National Archives, is raising the stakes in information management across government. Strong information management is essential for the effective working of government, providing excellent services, joined-up policy making, and strengthening public confidence and trust. The National Archives, through its merger with OPSI, has expertise across the information management spectrum and is well placed to lead this agenda. In supporting better information management, The National Archives will continue its work in preserving history for future generations.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Baroness Ashton visits The National Archives</title>
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			<description>The Rt Hon The Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, enjoyed a very informative day on 13 September at The National Archives in Kew with representatives from family history and local history societies.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Online release of 1911 census - updated</title>
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			<description>The National Archives is committed to making census data available online. We know from our own experience the huge excitement generated by the release of any new census and recognise the great historical and research value of census information. So we are already making plans to make the 1911 census available online in just under six years' time, on the first working day of 2012.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Archivists from around the world come to visit The National Archives</title>
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			<description>Following on from Natalie Ceeney's successful meeting in Washington in June, The National Archives will be hosting a meeting on 16 and 17 October 2006 attended by a number of Senior Archivists from France, Australia, Switzerland, Canada, USA and Scotland.</description>
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			<description>The Government has accepted the following manuscripts in lieu of tax and they now await allocation to suitable repositories</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Germinating History: 200 year old seeds spring to life</title>
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			<description>Against all expectations, seed scientists from the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew´s garden in West Sussex, have germinated 200–year–old seeds discovered in The National Archives – now growing into vigorous young plants.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Meet the Chief Executive on 16 November 2006</title>
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			<description>For the first time ever, The National Archives will be holding a 'Meet the Chief Executive' day.  On Thursday 16 November, Natalie Ceeney will be holding surgeries in each of the main reading rooms at Kew.</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>The National Archives: the next five years. Report of the first open meetings, and dates of the next meetings</title>
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			<description>James Strachan, Director of Public Services and Marketing at The National Archives (TNA), presented A New Vision for The National Archives 2006 – 2011.  This included our plans to merge with Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) in 2006 and to transfer TNA´s services from the Family Records Centre in Myddelton Street, EC1, to its site at Kew in west London, by 2008.</description>
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			<title>The National Archives' plans to merge with Office of Public Sector Information in 2006, and relocate services from the Family Records Centre to Kew by the end of 2008</title>
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			<description>James Strachan, Director of Public Services and Marketing at The National Archives (TNA), presented A New Vision for The National Archives, 2006 – 2011, at public meetings at the Family Records Centre (FRC) on 29 June and at Kew on 30 June.</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>1085 to 2006: A Domesday Book for a digital age</title>
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			<description>As of today, Domesday Book, the oldest public record held at The National Archives, is brought into the 21st century through Domesday Online, the organisation´s latest digitisation project.</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Surplus used microfilms offered for disposal</title>
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			<description>Following the introduction of online access in the reading rooms at Kew, The National Archives is offering batches of redundant microfilms, free, on a first-come,first-served basis.</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Update on document authenticity</title>
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			<description>The police investigation into the six files found to contain forged documents is still ongoing. At this stage The National Archives is unable to make any announcements on the progress of the police investigation.</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Sahib, the British Soldier in India 1750-1914</title>
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			<description>Our podcast lecture, given by the well known military historian Professor Richard Holmes, examines Indian soldiering in peace and war.  He addresses the experience of ordinary soldiers, why they joined up, how they got to India and what they made of it when they arrived.</description>
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