The National Archives - UK government records and information management

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• The National Archives will be closed from 1 to 16 December
  
• 30-year rule review - terms of reference published
  
• Nonconformist birth, marriage and death records online
  
• The National Archives and Microsoft join forces to preserve the UK's digital heritage
• 'Your Archives' now open for contributions
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Latest document releases

• Cabinet Secretaries' Notebooks
• Highlights from recently released files in November
• Rudolph Hess in Spandau prison
• Highlights from recently released files in September
• George Orwell, suspected communist
• Latest files from the Security Service
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