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National Archives

July 2024

  • Head and shoulders shot of Harold Wilson smoking a pipe

    Sad last days of Harold Wilson revealed by Cabinet Office archives

  • Black and white image of Harold Wilson at home

    Former PM Harold Wilson sold private papers to help fund his care

  • A black and white image of Kim Philby

    British Library wanted to buy archive of double agent Kim Philby from his widow

  • Aerial view of a destroyed section of the Jenin refugee camp

    Blair government accused IDF of acting like Russian army in West Bank

March 2024

  • Steve McQueen as Capt Virgil Hilts on a motorbike in The Great Escape.

    English Nazi collaborators may have aided recapture of ‘great escape’ PoWs

  • The red sweater

    ‘Pristine’ 200-year-old Faroese sweater found at UK’s National Archives

January 2024

  • Members of the royal family gather on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.

    National Archives censor files showing late queen concealed relative’s wealth

    Documents recording request from monarch to keep secret the will of a relative partly withdrawn from public view

31 December 2023

  • Silhouette of Scott Morrison

    Iraq war: 20 years on
    Morrison government failed to give Howard-era national security cabinet papers to national archives

  • Images of Margaret Thatcher and David Owen side by side

    Margaret Thatcher privately scolded David Owen as MI5 spy scandal grew

29 December 2023

  • Jonathan Powell and Tony Blair

    Rwanda-style asylum plan was ‘nuclear option’ for Blair in 2003, records reveal

  • Close-up of faces of Alastair Campbell and Tony Blair, snapped sitting together in the back of a car through the window, 2001; Campbell looks serious and intense, while Blair is grinning but not necessarily happily

    Alastair Campbell proposed legal threat to BBC amid Iraq war coverage row, files reveal

  • Sir Frederick and Sir David Barclay

    National archives: Barclay brothers lobbied Labour to scrap inheritance tax

  • A smiling Tony Blair in 1998

    National archives: Tony Blair was advised to work with militants in Kosovo

  • Thatcher ‘utterly shattered’ by MI5 revelations in Spycatcher, files reveal

  • Businessman in passports scandal asked if he should avoid UK until after 2001 election

28 December 2023

  • Steve McQueen in The Great Escape, a film inspired by a real-life mass breakout during the second world war.

    PoW dogs and secret tunnels feature in Kew exhibition of great escapes

    National Archives display in Kew includes record cards of prisoners who fled in mass breakout in 1944

22 December 2023

  • Old family photos and documents used in genealogy.

    Wills are valuable historical testimonies worth preserving

    Letters: Paul Ferguson, Derrick Phillips and Patrick Russell on government plans to destroy wills and other documents to save storage space

November 2023

  • Bundles of letters tied with ribbon.mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Unopened 18th-century love letters to French sailors read for first time

    Letters from loved ones of captured ship’s crew during seven years’ war lay forgotten for centuries

September 2023

  • Queen Elizabeth II

    Historians concerned after Queen Elizabeth II’s letters entrusted to aide

    Academics say Queen Elizabeth II’s letters and diaries should be preserved in full by the National Archives

July 2023

  • Winston Churchill.

    Churchill had to pick new Eton provost in midst of war effort, archives show

    National Archives files show PM presented with shock resignation of incumbent less than month after failed Arnhem landings
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