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Details from: INF 1/244: Winston Churchill outside Downing street, and PROB 1/4 f.1: Will of William Shakespeare, page 1.
Detail from: BT 43/102: Representations of designs of paper hangings by Christopher Dresser 1877-1879
 Montage of images taken from the Government Web Archive.

Launch of the UK Central Government Web Archive

 24 Sep 2003
Over half of all interaction between the government and the public is now carried out online. For example, the Hutton Inquiry website has been hugely popular, documenting every stage of the proceedings and making them available online. But how much of this historic online information is being preserved for future generations?

The National Archives has launched a new UK Central Government Web Archive on the 24th September 2003. It will preserve 50 government websites and will be the first of its kind. Sites chosen for preservation include the Hutton Inquiry, 10 Downing Street and the Northern Ireland Office. The web archive is accessible at www.pro.gov.uk/webarchive and is available free.
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