The National Archives is the official national archive of the UK Government, and for England and Wales. The institution holds documents dating back over 1,000 years, and is open to the public and free
Main entrance to The National Archives building at Kew
UK Prime Minister William Gladstone's 19th-century "red box", held in the archives
Entrance gates to The National Archives from Ruskin Avenue: the notched vertical elements were inspired by medieval tally sticks.
Treaty of Brétigny chest in the collection
Domesday Book
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Domesday Book is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by the Lati
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…mainly) the English railway companies, transferred from the British Railways Record Office There is also a museum, which displays key documents such as Domesday Book and has exhibitions on various topics using material from the collections. Domesday Book, unique record of medieval England (1086…
Domesday Book: an engraving published in 1900. Great Domesday (the larger volume) and Little Domesday (the smaller volume), in their 1869 bindings, lie on their older "Tudor" bindings.
Great Domesday in its "Tudor" binding: a wood-engraving of the 1860s
The Domesday Chest, the German-style iron-bound chest of c. 1500 in which Domesday Book was kept in the 17th and 18th centuries
Entries for Croydon and Cheam, Surrey, in the 1783 printed edition of Domesday Book