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Resources and Workshops
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Projects and Exhibitions
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Try our new quizzes to test your historical knowledge!
Explore our map of Prisoner of War & internment camps across the British Isles.
Dan Gosling, legal records specialist, looks at King's Bench records.
How have changes in laws and attitudes affected LGBTQ+ people in Britain?
Our Document of the Month is the cover of a Second World War magazine.
Keep up-to-date with the education department by following our social media channels.
Our sessions are delivered by a team of education officers.
Book a workshop taught onsite at The National Archives is Kew.
Book an online workshop taught in your classroom.
Use original documents to develop your own questions and lines of historical enquiry.
Our focused topics cover a huge variety of times and places.
Investigations mapped to the curriculum that can be covered in a single period.