Explore Your Archive is an Archives and Records Association campaign to encourage everyone to visit, use, celebrate and be inspired by archives in the UK & Ireland.

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Stories unveiled from UK & Ireland archives

LGBTQ+ History with the Queer Heritage and Collections Network

In reflection of LGBTQ+ History Month, Explore Your Archive reached out to the Queer Heritage and Collections Network to gain an insight […]

Stories from the British North Greenland Expedition (1952-1954).

In celebration of British Science Week and this year’s theme ‘connections’, Explore Your Archive reached out to Newcastle University Special Collections and […]

A mouse nest, skeleton and boots prints

Dustbusting with Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre.

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Teesside archives has moved on since its set up in 1974 at the Middlesbrough’s reference library via the Exchange House for 40 years.

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