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Explore Your Archive is an Archives and Records Association platform to encourage everyone to visit, use, celebrate and be inspired by archives in the UK & Ireland.
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Shining a Light on the Photographic Collection of Edward Chambré and Margaret Hardman
This World Photography Day we explore the Edward Chambré Hardman photographic collection. The collection is the output of the lifetime’s work of […]
Nature, beauty and heritage for everyone: The archives of the National Trust for Scotland
To round off July’s Explore Your Archive theme of ‘Nature’, Fiona from the National Trust for Scotland is giving an insight into […]
Putting Egypt on the map: Frederik Ludvig Norden’s Travels in Egypt and Nubia
This month at EYA we are celebrating #Travel. Ruth Gooding, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David gives […]
Exploring the Atlantic with Frank White
To link to this month’s theme of #EYATravel, Kat from the Bank of England Archive highlights an unusual travel record held in […]
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Series 2 – Episode 4
Forgotten Women of Wakefield
‘No women of note’ is what they were told. The project redresses reality.

Series 2 – Episode 3
Archiving cucumbers?
Wiltshire and Swindon history centre bringing gardening and archives together.

Series 2 – Episode 2
Patents, designs and inventions
Victorian bright ideas and inventions at the National Archives.

Series 2 – Episode 1
Archives and Orchestra
Bringing Suffolk history to life through music and dance.