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The Friends of The National Archives (FTNA) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) registered with the Charity Commission (charity number 1185971). The charity is run by a Board of Trustees, with a maximum of 12 trustees. Trustees are appointed by the members at the Annual General Meeting (AGM). Where there are less than the full…

The February Newsletter contains: Request for volunteers from Amanda Bevan of The National Archives The National Archives blogs of interest New Secretary for the Friends Details of upcoming ‘Behind the Scenes Tour’ of The National Archives, Kew Download the newsletter as a PDF here.

The next Behind-the-Scenes tour of TNA specially for FTNA members will take place on Wednesday 1 May. If you would like to attend please send an email to webmaster@ftna.org.uk.

Tony Wakeford concludes his mini series of articles linking British Council sponsored gramophone records in his collection to documents in The National Archives wth the latest post. A Mild National Emergency: recording a feast wtih an unexpected outcome is now included in the Libellus collection. Belshazzar’s Feast by Sir William Walton was the first recording…

Anne Ramon has written an article for the FTNA Newsletter about a letter she discovered in the HCA (High Court of Admiralty) Prize Papers file. See the full article here.

On Wednesday 1 November 2023 at 19.30, Dr Helen Fry will give an online talk on her latest book Women in Intelligence: the hidden history of two world wars. (This event is actually being organised by TNA, but it is included here because Dr Helen Fry is a past President of FTNA.) In the twentieth…

Please click here to read the FTNA Newsletter for August. Our late summer newsletter contains the following items: SEND project funded by the Friends completion of WO 416 project (cataloguing WWII PoW and civilian internee records) TNA research guides Letter from America …1777 by Anne Ramon FTNA opportunities for volunteering the 1939 register of the…

Our collection of online articles has been further enhanced by the addition of an article about Harry Lauder (1870-1950) by Tony Wakeford. Please click here to read about this early Scottish super star singer who is remembered in more than sixty-two pictures in the COPY 1 series at TNA. Harry Lauder was truly one of…

In his latest article for the Friends, Tony Wakeford has been reflecting on the silence of history and what we are missing by the absence of sound in our historical understanding. Log in to the members’ area to read Silent Witness: the historical record.

At the AGM on 20 June 2023, three new trustees were formally appointed: Harald Wollinger, Toby Ewin, and Victoria Phillips. Emmajane Avery gave an update to the Friends on activities over the past year at The National Archives. Her report can be viewed here. Amanda Bevan gave a talk on the Prize Papers Project and…