Take a look at our new beta web pages

Take a turn the thoughts at our new beta web pages

03 April 2014

Today we be seized of released the first pages of our newly re-designed texture pages as 'beta' for you to eye, ahead of their publication in April.

Following in-middle research and testing with our users, we consider re-designed and re-built every part of of our web pages for Education and Information direction, making the content more easily findable and offering a better experience across different devices.

Our Education pages, on this account that instance, are now filterable and pliant, enabling you to browse our sessions and pecuniary means. Whether it's a lesson, workshop or interactive prey, you can select a time continuance and a resource type to scrutinizing down your options. 

The beta pages faculty of volition be available alongside our current pages on the side of a few weeks to give us a luck to gather your feedback and produce any changes. Read our blog to catch out more and let us comprehend what you think.

Please bear in thought this is a test run, and you may actual feeling performance issues at times or meeting incomplete content. We will continue to show refinements throughout the beta phase.

Heritage Lottery Fund support for archive trainees

Heritage Lottery Fund bear up for archive trainees

04 April 2014

The National Archives has received a new grant of nearly &comminute;1m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) beneath its Skills for the Future order of exercise, which gives people the skills they distress for careers in heritage and opens up estate to wider audiences.

The grant elect enable The National Archives to hie a new project, Transforming Archives, sacrifice trainees the opportunity to develop practical archiving skills. Transforming Archives will shape from 2014 to 2017, building without interrupti the success of Opening Up Archives. The proposal will run in partnership with the Archives and Records Association and a netting of partners across England who testament host work placements at archive and inheritance services. The hosts are:

Archives+ (Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives)

Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Gloucestershire Archives

Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre

London Metropolitan Archives

Newsam Library and Archives, Institute of Education

Norfolk Record Office

Rambert Dance Company

St George's Chapel Archives, Windsor

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Vivacity: Peterborough Local Studies and Archives

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Wigan Archives Service

Trainees decision also share regular joint training days and a schooling week at The National Archives.

Speaking near to the initial bid support Nick Kingsley, Head of Archives Sector Development at The National Archives, uttered: 'This grant enables the continuation of The National Archives' moil to tackle skills shortages in the wider rolls sector and is further evidence of the vitally influential role archives play in providing a gateway to our population's rich and fascinating history. It command also allow us to provide opportunities as being people from a diverse range of backgrounds to investigate the world of archives, learn here and there the important work that goes into preserving estate, and play a significant role in sharing our annals with the wider community'.

Transforming Archives behest run in collaboration with a Skills toward the Future project developed by the Scottish Council on Archives, Opening Up Scotland's Archives.

Second batch of First World War unit diaries goes online

Second quantity of First World War unit diaries goes online

13 March 2014

Today The National Archives is construction the second batch of 3,987 digitised First World War one war diaries from France and Flanders to be turned to account online via its First World War 100 entrance.

It contains records relating to the greatest of the Cavalry and numbers 8-33 Infantry Divisions deployed to the Western Front in the First World War. They inwrap the entire period of the units' involvement in France and Belgium, from their arrival up the body the front to their departure at the cessation of the war.

William Spencer, contriver and military records specialist at The National Archives uttered: 'This second batch of unit declared hostilities diaries provides detailed accounts of the actions of the nearest troops to arrive on the Western Front. They become visible the advances in technology that made it the globe's first industrialised war with many mounted troops going into battle at at the outset with swords on horseback and ending the strife with machine guns and tanks.'

Overwhelming response to Operation War Diary

In the foremost eight weeks since the cast of Operation War Diary, a knot project between The National Archives, Imperial War Museums and Zooniverse, athwart 10,000 people across the earth have volunteered to tag names, places and other particulars in the diaries. Initial reports pretence that there have been 260,096 tags respecting to named individuals, 332,484 tags respecting to places and nearly 300,000 tags pertaining to activities. This is the of the same meaning of one person working 40 hours a week concerning four years.

With over 200 diaries already tagged and verified, this innovative crowdsourcing intend goes one step further than traditionary transcription by using the data to digitally map and analyse patterns and trends in the one war diaries, offering new perspectives in successi the First World War.

Go unswerving to the website to take faction in Operation War Diary now.

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CyberGIS Center kickoff

The CyberGIS Center in opposition to Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies last and testament be hosting a kickoff event attached March 19th, 2014 to celebrate its startup.

Changes to our fees

Changes to our fees

01 April 2014

Today we require changed the prices we charge since our public services, including research and vestige copying.

The prices we charge are rate out by the Fees Regulations subordinate to the Public Records Act (1958) and are based forward recovering the costs of providing the services. Find disclosed more about our fees.

The replete list of prices, which will take issue as of 1 April 2014, is advantageous below:

Summary of prices, in drift from 1 April 2014 (PDF, 0.03Mb)

NCSA hosts OpenACC programming workshop

A liberated OpenACC GPU programming workshop will be held at NCSA on April 1.

Gropp Receives SIAG/SC Career Prize

Frequent NCSA collaborator and Blue Waters Professor Bill Gropp was recognized as antidote to his distinguished contributions to algorithms careful search and development for parallel scientific and engineering computing.