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Today in Explore Your Archive week is Ask Archivists day. If you'd like to ask our archivists a question please go over to Twitter and ask away @UKNatArchives

Have a look @explorearchives to see all of the archives across the country taking part.

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/like-know-askarchivists/
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Today, inspired by @askarchivists archives will be on hand to answer your questions.
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At 11:00 staff and visitors to The National Archives paused to remember our fallen colleagues from the First World War and all of the men and women who have fought and died in conflicts since.

Our Chief Executive and Keeper, Jeff James, laid a wreath at our memorial that remembers colleagues from the Public Record Office and His Majesty's Stationery Office, who gave their lives in the First World War.
Photo: At 11:00 staff and visitors to The National Archives paused to remember our fallen colleagues from the First World War and all of the men and women who have fought and died in conflicts since. Our Chief Executive and Keeper, Jeff James, laid a wreath at our memorial that remembers colleagues from the Public Record Office and His Majesty's Stationery Office, who gave their lives in the First World War.
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Today the Explore Your Archive campaign will look at First World War records.

Join the discussions on #WW1archives and #explorearchives on Twitter and follow @explorearchives to find out about everything that's going on across the country.
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November 10
Don't suffer pangs of loss at the end of this series of Downton Abbey. Fill the weeks until the Christmas special with a range of books and Downtown themed memorabilia from our online bookshop.

If you're not a fan, why not indulge the Downton fan in your life? Especially as Christmas is just around the corner.

http://bookshop.nationalarchives.gov.uk/Gifts-and-humour/Our-Gift-Recommendations/?subcategory=For-fans-of-Downton
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As the government’s national archive for England, Wales and the United Kingdom, The National Archives hold over 1,000 years of the nation’s records for everyone to discover and use.
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November 10
As part of Explore Your Archive we are looking at how archivists spend their days.

Read all about a day in the life of our very own Melinda Haunton as she goes about the business of Archive Service Accreditation.

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/day-life/
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Melinda Haunton from our archive sector development team talks about a day in the life working on Archive Service Accreditation.
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November 10
Sign up to our Explore Your Archive Thunderclap before 10:30 this morning to share the message of the importance of archives.

Join celebrities like Stephen McGann, Kate Adie and Rory Bremner in supporting this great campaign.

https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/17644-explore-your-archive?locale=en
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November 7
Are you around Kew tomorrow (Saturday 8 November)? To mark Remembrance Sunday and as part of Explore Your Archive week, we are hosting a talk 'The First World War and the community - putting it all together'.

Learn from our record expert, ...Audrey Collins, how to piece together your community's involvement in the First World War.

Tickets are FREE and can be booked now.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/events/putting-it-all-together.htm See More
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Drawing on a wide variety of documents, in record offices, libraries and online, this talk shows how you can discover how a whole community was affected by the First World War. It uses as a case study the market town of Chesham in Buckinghamshire, but the techniques used are equally applicable to an…
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November 6
A world without records is a world without history.

Next week sees the annual Explore Your Archive campaign where archives across the country open up their records in new and exciting ways.

Support the #explorearchives Thunderclap to share the message of how important archives are.

https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/17644-explore-your-archive?locale=en
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November 3
** LIMITED OFFER **

If you've missed out on tickets for our sold out Paddy Ashdown talk tomorrow, we're delighted to offer you the chance to buy a signed and dedicated copy of his new book The Cruel Victory.

Place your order by 23.59GMT today (3 November) and follow this link for full details of how to make sure you don't miss out.

http://bookshop.nationalarchives.gov.uk/9780007520800/Cruel-Victory/
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Cruel Victory: Cruel Victory : The French Resistance, D-Day and The Battle for The Vercors 1944. . LIMITED SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE. Paddy Ashdown will
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November 3
Our latest My Tommy's War blog is a fascinating story of a regular solider who was killed on 30 October 1914.

Follow David Langrish as 100 years after the death of his Great Uncle, he unearths his story, proving that even with scant information, you can find the story of your Tommy in archives.

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/tommys-war-trooper-ypres/
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For today’s blog post, I would like to share the wartime experiences of my great uncle, who was killed in action 100 years ago yesterday.
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October 31
Trick or Treat!

Get 10% off orders from our bookshop. Quote 'TREAT' at checkout. But be quick - offer expires 23.59GMT Sunday 2 November.

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October 31
Let the books from our bookshop chill and intrigue you this Halloween.

Choose from our wide range of titles examining grisly crimes ( http://bookshop.nationalarchives.gov.uk/Summer-Spectacular-Savings/Save-on-crime-titles/ ) or pick from two of our favourite books exploring real life mysteries:

The Secret Rooms
http://bookshop.nationalarchives.gov.uk/9780141035673/Secret-Rooms-%3A-A-Plotting-Duchess%2C-a-Mysterious-Death-and-a-Castle-Full-of-Intrigue/

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse
http://bookshop.nationalarchives.gov.uk/9781781856086/The-Dead-Duke%2C-His-Secret-Wife-And-the-Missing-Corpse/

Buy now, if you dare....
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