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• Your views
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• Education
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• Freedom of Information enquiry
  Request information about The National Archives under the Freedom of Information Act.

• Naturalisation requests
  Request a copy of a certificate of citizenship, registration or naturalisation, issued from 1949 to 1986.

• Public sector information
  Contact us with your queries about Crown copyright, licensing and the re-use of government information.

• General enquiries
  Use this contact form for all other enquiries, including research enquiries.

Help with online orders

• Bookshop
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• DocumentsOnline
  Contact us with any issues when ordering a document from our collection of digitised records.

• Record copying
  Request help with our Record copying service.

Other ways to contact us

By post

Please write to:
The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU

By phone

Please call +44 (0) 20 8876 3444

Lines are open:

Monday: 09:00 - 17:00 (switchboard service only)
Tuesday: 09:00 - 19:00
Wednesday: 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday: 09:00 - 19:00
Friday: 09:00 - 17:00
Saturday: 09:00 - 17:00

We use a speech recognition system on our telephone system. Please follow the prompts when you call.

Textphone/Minicom

(For deaf and hard of hearing people) +44 (0) 20 8392 9198