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Happy Birthday to us!

david, 1 March 2016 — Accommodation, Outreach, Records Management

This year the Parliamentary Archives will be marking two anniversaries: it is 70 years since our office was set up and 20 years since we began to establish formal procedures for the management of modern records. Although Parliamentary records have …

Welcome to ‘Inside the Act Room’, the Parliamentary Archives’ new blog.

Adrian Brown, 19 August 2015 — Accommodation, Exhibitions, Records Management

The Act Room is the physical and intellectual heart of the Archives. It has been described as ‘the most important room in Britain’, and with some justification: the intricate chequerboard of 64,000 parchment rolls which lines its walls embodies the …