British archives contain little on covert action. The Secret Intelligence Service, (SIS, more commonly known as MI6) was only legally avowed in 1994 and is not well-known for transparency. It does not ...

SAVANNAH | Records kept by accountants and bureaucrats across the Atlantic Ocean give a glimpse into the conflict and suffering seen in colonial Georgia during the American Revolution. A trio of ...

Britain's GOV.UK portal has been online since Netscape Navigator 2.0 was state of the art. Now, a National Archives project to make this trove of historical content more accessible has shifted 22 ...

The British Library is about to start archiving 4.8 million UK websites and one billion web pages, following legislation that will come into force this week. The British Library has piloted the ...

On the outskirts of London, in a basement room of the British National Archives, a historian delicately turns pages that have the brittle feel of dead leaves. Each is covered in text — some ...

Apple UK has published an article about the British Pathe archive, which contains over 3,500 hours of historical footage that is presently being encoded into QuickTime, and will soon be available on ...

Almost as soon as the EU referendum result was known, John L Sheridan could see that transforming the way the UK publishes legislation after Brexit was going to be a big job. Sheridan is digital ...

This joint project between LSE IDEAS, The British Academy, and the Russian Academy unlocks the archives of the early Cold War What makes this project unique is the fact that this is the first ...

Nothing is as central to the way the British view themselves as the telling and retelling of their gallant fight against the Nazis. Perhaps the colossal figure of Winston Churchill is taken for ...

Several stories below the British Library’s Magna Carta room, alongside a rumbling line of the London Underground, is a brightly lit labyrinth of rare and historic items. Past a series of antique ...

On the outskirts of London, in a basement room of the British National Archives, a historian delicately turns pages that have the brittle feel of dead leaves. Each is covered in text — some ...