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 …
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 …
The Parliamentary Archives consists of much more than the physical Act Room. For some years now the Archives has been engaged in crucial work to support Parliament’s transition to 21st century digital ways of working. We are responsible for preserving …
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 …
