Research Resources

• Discovery, our catalogue: Discovery holds over 37 million descriptions of records held by us and more than 3,500 other archives across the country. Researchers can also download over 9 million digitised records from Discovery.

• Our reading rooms are open to researchers.

• Our Open Access repository of publications by our staff and students can be explored by everyone.

• Browse our website to search our collections or use our library catalogue.

  If you would like to find out more about our research and collections, or would like to discuss an idea for a potential research collaboration, you can email us at research@nationarchives.gov.uk.