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The National Archives ( TNA; Welsh: Yr Archifau Cenedlaethol) is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. [ 3] Its parent department is the Department for Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [ 4] It is the official national archive of the UK Government and for ...
Mills Archive, Reading. Modern Records Centre, near Coventry. The National Archives [of the United Kingdom], Kew. National Co-operative Archive, Manchester. National Jazz Archive, Loughton, Essex. National Gas Archive, Warrington. National Theatre Archive, London. Newham Archives and Local Studies Library.
The National Archives of France was created informally on July 29, 1789 by the Revolutionaries to document the prior Ancien Régime. [4] The crown's Treasury of Charters as well as private records from the clergy were collected for historical value as those parties were deemed irrelevant to French society.
The Public Record Office[ 1] (abbreviated as PRO, pronounced as three letters and referred to as the PRO), Chancery Lane in the City of London, was the guardian of the national archives of the United Kingdom from 1838 until 2003, when it was merged with the Historical Manuscripts Commission to form The National Archives, based in Kew.
The National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government within the executive branch, [ 4] charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It is also tasked with increasing public access to those documents that make up the National Archives. [ 5]
The UK Government Web Archive (UKGWA) is part of The National Archives of the United Kingdom. The National Archives collects records from all UK government departments and bodies creating records defined as Public Records under the British Public Records Act. This includes on-line records. [1]
The National Archives of Scotland (NAS) is the previous name of the National Records of Scotland (NRS), and are the national archives of Scotland, based in Edinburgh. The NAS claims to have one of the most varied collection of archives in Europe. It is the main archive for sources of the history of Scotland as an independent state (see Kingdom ...
In 2005, the British Library, The National Archives, Wellcome Trust, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales and JISC formed the UK Web Archiving Consortium, a project to archive websites. [3] UKWAC archived selected websites by licence or permission, using PANDAS software developed by the National Library of Australia.