Tag: Volunteering Behind the scenes‘For you, my friend, the war is over’: cataloguing 200,000 prisoner of war recordsMonday 13 March 2023National Archives volunteers have completed a major project to catalogue the personnel cards of...Records and researchCataloguing First World War medical records for Napsbury HospitalMonday 5 December 2022To celebrate International Volunteer Day, this blog is dedicated to all those volunteers who...Archives and archivistsCataloguing CO 730: Opening up perspectives on early 20th-century IraqFriday 25 November 2022This November, a group of three volunteers have finished a cataloguing project working on...Archives and archivistsThe Trade in Yellow: Cataloguing the Home Office Correspondence, King George IIIThursday 24 November 2022The Home Office Correspondence from the reign of King George III, held in record...Archives and archivistsWO 399: A volunteer’s perspectiveMonday 21 November 2022The transcription project for WO 399 has been going for a little less than...Archives and archivistsThe A to Z of the Royal Navy Captains’ letters projectMonday 21 November 2022This is the first of a planned series of blogs charting the progress of...Records and researchColonial correspondence: Tasmania settlersWednesday 9 November 2022Tasmania, well known today as the home of the Tasmanian Devil, was formerly two...Behind the scenesCare and maintenance of The National Archives Library collectionMonday 8 August 2022The National Archives library was established in 1836 to support the work and research...Behind the scenesNew insights into the First World War military nursesTuesday 2 August 2022Since late 2021, an increasingly large group of volunteers has been working its way...Records and researchSurviving the stalagWednesday 1 June 2022Any soldier, airman or sailor captured by the Germans during the Second World War...Records and researchThe King, the Queen, the Ambassador and the PiratesFriday 6 May 2022There’s buried treasure in the dry sands of SP 32 – State Papers William...Records and researchOne positive outcome from a terrible disasterThursday 7 April 2022This is the latest in a series of blogs to promote the work of... 1 2 »
