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The New Year Chimes of Big Ben

photograph of the clock tower and the new year fireworks

As the New Year approaches, we will once again hear the bongs of Big Ben ring out across London as midnight strikes. While renovations are taking place, the Great Bell is currently only rung on special occasions such as Remembrance …

My favourite (?) archive: Nulla unquam de morte hominis cunctatio longa est.

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I joined the Parliamentary Archives nearly two years ago when I was given a tour of the Victoria Tower. To be honest, at the time it was a bit of a blur of amazing documents, manuscripts and plans filling almost all …

Acting on Change: impressions of a recent digital preservation conference

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The Parliamentary Archives Digital Preservation Trainee, Grace Bell, gives us her take on the international ‘Acting on Change’ conference: On 30th November and 1st December the Parliamentary Archives Digital Preservation team attended a conference at the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, …

Barry and Pugin: New light on an old controversy

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 …