Posts by Melinda Haunton
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Professional Fellows in 2018-19
We are the first fellows who have had the opportunity to apply to the new Professional Fellowship Scheme, a partnership between The National Archives and Resear... read more
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Archive Service Accreditation: refreshed and reopened for business
I’m so pleased to say that a refreshed Archive Service Accreditation reopens today, almost exactly five years from the first publication of the standard in Ju... read more
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Is this the face of William Shakespeare?
The portrait shows a balding man, rather askew of eye, wearing a white lace collar - is this an image of Shakespeare…... read more
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Infinite variety: Archiving the Arts
What links a springboard , a sonnet, a commode, a peacock, many hairpins and a sad lack of teleportation facilities? Read on to find out: Way back in December 2... read more
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A day in the life of an archivist
As part of Explore Your Archive week the organisations and people who look after archive collections will be taking to Twitter – and we want you to join us! F... read more
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My Family’s War: across enemy lines
Last year, I begged this ‘My Tommy’s War’ slot to write about my mother’s family’s war, because of a letter in my mother’s family papers whi... read more
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Talking ‘Archiving the Arts’
I’m talking with my colleagues Fleur Soper and Kate Wheeler about Archiving the Arts, our strategic programme to engage with archives of the arts sector.Â... read more
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We are Accredited!
You might have seen that The National Archives was among the latest batch of archive services to have reached the Archive Service Accreditation standard. If you... read more
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Archives are our business
Part of The National Archives’ work with the wider archive sector is about exploring and promoting the rich variety of different types of archive that are... read more
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To the manor born?
We’ve been working for almost twenty years now to improve, update and above all get online our statutory information on the records of English and Welsh m... read more