Sometimes in life you must take a chance regardless of the consequences. One hundred years ago Labour leader Ramsey Macdonald found himself in this position. With no clear victor determined from a General Election, he grasped the opportunity to lead …
The weeks leading up to Christmas can be hectic, so we wanted to give you a reason to take a short break from putting up Christmas decorations, shopping and wrapping presents to sit back, relax and learn more about the …
This blog was written by Katie Widdowson, Cataloguer. The arrangement of archives is not always immediately obvious, and this can make it difficult for users to search archive catalogues efficiently to find the records they need. This blog will aim …
This blog was written by Verity Jones, Archives Assistant (Graduate Trainee). For the third blog in our Jargon Buster series, we’re looking at two different types of records which are often confused – Hansard and Journals. Both give detailed accounts …
This blog was written by Verity Jones, Archives Assistant Graduate Trainee. I am currently the Archives Assistant Graduate Trainee in the Parliamentary Archives, having started in September 2019. Over the last 8 months, I have got to grips with many …
There now hangs a print of the rolls of Acts of Parliament – inspired by the Act Room – above the large research table in the reading room of the Parliamentary Archives. This was a new addition on my most …
The Parliamentary Archives holds a collection of glass plate negatives dating from c.1900 that were purchased from Edward Farmer, a commercial and technical photographer, in 1972. Our latest project has been to digitise this archive and make the images available …
The latest digitisation project completed at the Parliamentary Archives is a collection of photographs originally taken by the MP and photographer, Benjamin Stone. The original photographs date from between 1897 and 1911 and are of the rooms which make up …
Caroline Shenton writes: It is always exciting when long-lost archives come to light, never more so than last year when the Parliamentary Archives acquired a small but significant collection of personal papers from some descendants of Sir Charles Barry, architect …
We've already posted about the Parliamentary Archives' efforts to preserve and provide access to digital records produced by the Houses of Parliament; but the nature of records produced by the Houses are often difficult to understand. We can illustrate this by …
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