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What's On 2018

Book now for our January to March season of talks, webinars, family events and more.
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'...a strange story of spirits, and worth reading indeed'

A ghost story enjoyed by Samuel Pepys at Christmas time, 350 years ago.

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Closures over Christmas and the New Year

We are closed from 23 to 27 December, and from 30 December to 1 January.

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Emigrants: why the English sailed to the New World

AUTHOR TALK James Evans’ Emigrants tells the story of America’s earliest settlers from England....

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 14:00
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Joint project awarded over £800,000

The National Archives and the University of Leicester have been awarded a grant of...

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Changes affecting visitors to The National Archives

Planning a visit to The National Archives? These changes may affect you.

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Rosa May Billinghurst: suffragette, campaigner, ‘cripple’

Born in 1875, Rosa May Billinghurst was commonly called the ‘cripple suffragette’.

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