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UK Archive Sector Leadership
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Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.

Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
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Your responses will inform the work of Space, Places and Belonging - a UK-wide programme of grants, training and digital tools to help share and celebrate community history and heritage.

The survey should only take 20 minutes to complete & responses will be totally anonymous. (2/2)
January 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Deadline for tender submissions: Friday 16 January (12PM)

The Leadership Foundations event will take place w/c 2 March (10am- 3pm) at a location in Birmingham (details TBC).

If you have any questions, please contact ASL@nationalarchives.gov.uk (2/2)
December 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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This event is ideal for archive practitioners or communications & marketing teams within cultural organisations who are seeking innovative approaches to engagement and outreach! (2/2)
December 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Day 10: #Trust
Yorkshire & North East Film Archive & Teesside University commemorated the 40th anniversary of the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike with a film reflecting on the UK’s rich history of mining: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
📷 In The Veins, Yorkshire & North East Film Archive
A black-and-white photograph of a large crowd of people, mostly men in flat caps and dark suits alongside some women and babies, standing in front of a coal mine.
December 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Apologies Simon, we misunderstood your question at first. The pic is from Historic England Archive's Knicky Chapman Collection. A group of women from the Women's Auxiliary Air Force pose with their cameras outside the No. 2 School of Photography in Blackpool during WW2!
December 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Day 9: #Resilience
Greater Manchester Archives and Local Studies Partnership made two travelling digital preservation kits with all the equipment needed to access and preserve records on outdated storage media: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
📷 Tameside Local Studies & Archive Centre
A compilation of images entitled 'Stamford Model Railway Club', including two black-and-white photographs of young people around a model train table, as well as separate images of an old railway timetable booklet and a metal train plaque
December 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Day 8: #Openness
The Brent Museum & Archive team delivered exhibitions, events, and 18 community-led projects rooted in their British Empire Exhibition collections, engaging over 61,000 people: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
#Archives
📷 Brent Museum & Archives
A group of people working around a table that has open archive boxes and laptops on.
December 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Day 7: Innovation & Risk
The Mills Archive Trust supported @readinghydro.org to create the Reading Hydro archive and secure the future of their records: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
#Archives #Innovation #Risk
📷 The Mills Archive Trust
A sepia photograph showing two boys standing on a small rowing boat floating near the bank of a river. On either side of the river are trees and in the background a brick building is visible.
December 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Day 6: #Impact
'Following the Fish', a staff and volunteer-led research project, uncovered the remarkable stories of the herring lassies working in fishing towns across Scotland and East Anglia: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sec...
#Archives
📷 Suffolk Archives, Ref 1300/72/18/9
A painting of two women, wearing long dresses and head scarves with knitting needles in their hands, walking alongside an old fishing ship
December 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM