This snapshot, taken on 15/02/2012, shows web content selected for preservation by The National Archives. External links, forms and search boxes may not work in archived websites.
Back to the Archive Awareness Campaign homepage

See events for exhibitions, tours, food tasting and films taking place in areas near you. Contact the team for free postcards.

Everyone has a history and we've got a bit of yours!

In 2011 Culture & Diversity: What's Your Story? celebrated culture, diversity, creativity and the arts. It is also highlighted the stories and the artefacts from the people, places and cultures that make up the UK today.

Latest news

Roses, chocolates and severed heads. Find out more about the romantic rituals of 19th century Taiwanese aborigines.

Manchester: Musical Metropolis at Royal Northern College of Music.

Scotland brings Edible Archives to life.

The UK's largest online exhibition Face Britain launched by the Prince's Foundation for Children & the Arts.

The Guardian reports culture and diversity through the Guardian and Observer Archive's and photographic library.

In archives

Canterbury Cathederal Archives newsletter on Royal Society member John Deane (1800-1884) Discovery:Archives in Science,Technology and Medicine'.

Voices of African Super Heroes-heritage and history of the African community in Birmingham. See flyer for details.

See some of the treasures of the National Archives collected over 1000 years of British history. Such as Living the Poor Life: the untold history of the Victorian poor, unique Images of Africa through a lens, Mervyn Peake wartime artworksplus the Festival of Britain's 60th anniversaryat Brighton University.

Visit the Women's Library and find out about the unsung heroes behind feminism. See All Work and Low Pay: The Story of Women and Work.

Event Spotlight

Next Steps in Family History

North Yorkshire County Record Office

more info



© 2012 Archive Awareness Campaign | Site by CBJ Digital Ltd.