[65], Additional MI5 records relating to the blacklisting of government workers during Thatcher's time in office have also prompted questions after their release. A separate National Register of Archives for Scotland is maintained at the National Archives of Scotland, but its contents are duplicated within the NRA at Kew.

In response to concerns stated by politicians and historians about management of the collection, the archives stressed that the number of missing files is quite small in proportion the entire holdings of the repository – about 0.01% – and that, as of 2017, its loss rate was only around 100 documents, annually. The surviving third were largely water or fire-damaged and thus acquired the colloquial name of the "Burnt Documents." Es beherbergt Originalkopien der drei wichtigsten Gründungsdokumente der Vereinigten Staaten: die Unabhängigkeitserklärung, die Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten und die Bill of Rights. Das Hauptgebäude stellt auch andere wichtige Dokumente aus der Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten aus, wie zum Beispiel den Louisiana-Purchase-Vertrag und die Emanzipations-Proklamation, zudem auch eine Kollektion von Photographien und andere historisch und kulturell wichtige Artefakte. Die vom Archivar der Vereinigten Staaten (The Archivist of the United States) geleitete Behörde arbeitet oft mit Wissenschaftlern zusammen, die bei durchgeführten Studien unterstützen. [40] The contributions are made by users to give additional information to that which is available on the other services provided by the National Archives, including the catalogue, research guides, documentonline and National Register of Archive. Digitization of the records is on-going as of 2018. In this research room, all archival records are presented, with the exception of the records of the 1st Department.


The site was originally a World War I hospital, which was later used by several government departments. The content on the National Archives website is licenced under a Creative Commons license. [7] Since 2008, TNA has also hosted the former UK Statute Law Database, now known as legislation.gov.uk. This website uses cookies to provide services. Das Gebäude wurde 2004 als Kulisse für den Film National Treasure mit Nicolas Cage benutzt. National Archives and Records Administration— NARA —. National Archives Store and Gift Shop The National Archives Store is open daily, 10 a.m. to closing. From the History of the National Archives, Digital research room/archival records on-line, Registers of Jewish Religious Communities from 1784 to 1949, Request form for provision of archival records for on-site consulting, Application for ascertainment of census data in the territory of the former Czechoslovakia, Application for ascertainment of citizenship data, Application for ascertainment of data concerning persecution during the Nazi occupation, Application for ascertainment of data from the residence records of persons living until 1953 in the then territory of the Capital City of Prague, Questionnaire for loaning archival records for exhibition purposes.

Research rules. In June 2005, journalist Ben Fenton of The Daily Telegraph received an email from a colleague asking him to investigate documents held at TNA that alleged that a British intelligence agent had, on the orders of Winston Churchill, murdered Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi SS, in 1945. [2] Its parent department is the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The National Archives is Her Majesty's Government's official archive, "containing 1000 years of history from Domesday Book to the present", with records from parchment and paper scrolls through to digital files and archived websites.
The building was opened in 1977 as an additional home for the public records, which were held in a building on Chancery Lane. [57] The three documents had come to prominence after being revealed by author Martin Allen in his book Himmler's Secret War. [18], The collections held by the National Archives can be searched using their online catalogue. [38], Your Archives[39] is a wiki for the National Archives on-line community which was launched in May 2007; it was closed for editing on 30 September 2012 in preparation of archiving on the Government web archive.