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In this section we provide information on how to manage, care for and develop records and collections so that they are accessible and relevant to current and future researchers. While archives are ...

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One of the immediate and most important effects of the Act of Union in 1707 was the creation of a united free trade area managed from London. When pre-industrialization began a few decades later it ...

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Our Resilience Grants programme provides grants of up to £20,000, to empower the archive sector to find and develop sustainable solutions that enable change and develop organisational resilience. The ...

Document to show the cost of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway as estimated by its engineer and designer, George Stephenson. The railway was opened in 1830, but building had started in the 1820s. It ...

Following a recent Archive Service Accreditation Panel, the UK Archive Service Accreditation Committee is pleased to announce that the following archive services have been awarded accredited status ...

This is a brief guide to researching records of UFOs. The surviving records consist mainly of documents relating to official policy, Parliamentary business (including responses to Parliamentary ...