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dir="ltr"><p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Parliamentary_archives.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Parliamentary_archives.jpg/330px-Parliamentary_archives.jpg" decoding="async" width="330" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Parliamentary_archives.jpg/495px-Parliamentary_archives.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Parliamentary_archives.jpg/660px-Parliamentary_archives.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1707" /></a><figcaption>Rolls containing Acts of Parliament in the Parliamentary Archives at Victoria Tower, <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster" title="Palace of Westminster">Palace of Westminster</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Parliamentary Archives</b> of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> preserves and makes available to the public the records of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> and <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> back to 1497, as well as some 200 other collections of <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">parliamentary</a> interest. The present title was officially adopted in November 2006, as a change from the previous title, the <b>House of Lords Record Office</b>. </p><p>Over three million records are held by the archives in the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Tower" title="Victoria Tower">Victoria Tower</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster" title="Palace of Westminster">Palace of Westminster</a> on 5.5 miles of shelving. Some of the most important constitutional records of the United Kingdom are stored by the Archives, including the <a href="/wiki/Petition_of_Right" title="Petition of Right">Petition of Right</a> (1628), the Death Warrant of <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">Charles I</a> (1649), the <a href="/wiki/Habeas_Corpus_Act_1679" title="Habeas Corpus Act 1679">Habeas Corpus Act 1679</a>, the draft and final <a href="/wiki/English_Bill_of_Rights" class="mw-redirect" title="English Bill of Rights">Bill of Rights</a> (1689), the <a href="/wiki/Slave_Trade_Act" title="Slave Trade Act">Slave Trade Act</a> (1807 and 1833), the <a href="/wiki/Great_Reform_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Reform Act">Great Reform Act</a> (1832), and successive <a href="/wiki/Representation_of_the_People_Acts" class="mw-redirect" title="Representation of the People Acts">Representation of the People Acts</a>. In March 2022 it was announced that the archives would be relocating to <a href="/wiki/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)" title="The National Archives (United Kingdom)">The National Archives</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kew" title="Kew">Kew</a>, by 2025.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The archives also oversees records management for Parliament, has an active outreach programme and frequently appears on radio and TV programmes. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parliamentary_Archives&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The archive of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> originated in March 1497, when the then Clerk, Master Richard Hatton, having prepared the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_Roll" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament Roll">Parliament Roll</a> for that session for transfer to <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Chancery" title="Court of Chancery">Chancery</a>, retained in the House of Lords the complete series of sixteen enacted Bills, or <i>Original Acts</i>, from which he had made the enrolment. Since then, this series has been preserved continuously among the records of the House of Lords. </p><p>By 1509, the <a href="/wiki/Clerk_of_the_Parliaments" title="Clerk of the Parliaments">Clerk of the Parliaments</a> and his assistants (today known collectively as the Parliament Office) had hived off from Chancery, and in the course of the 16th century this newly independent Lords office gradually expanded and formalised its record keeping. In addition to the class of Original Acts already mentioned, the clerks preserved Journals of the House of Lords, now surviving from 1510, Petitions from 1531 and Bills from 1558. It seems, however, that the office was somewhat haphazard in its methods; <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_Wolsey" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal Wolsey">Cardinal Wolsey</a>, for instance, when <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor" title="Lord Chancellor">Lord Chancellor</a>, is said to have removed all the Acts and Journals relating to one session. A more business-like administration began with the advent of two Clerks in the 17th century, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bowyer_(diarist)" title="Robert Bowyer (diarist)">Robert Bowyer</a> (1609–1621) and <a href="/wiki/Henry_Elsynge" title="Henry Elsynge">Henry Elsynge</a> (1621–1635). Under these diligent and scholarly men the Lords archive took its modern form. Petitions and many other forms of Papers coming to the Lords were carefully filed; extensive series of rough Minutes and of Committee Proceedings were preserved; and, not least in importance, the records were assigned a permanent home at the south west corner of the <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster" title="Palace of Westminster">Palace of Westminster</a>, in a moated building (still surviving, and open to the public), the 14th-century <a href="/wiki/Jewel_Tower" title="Jewel Tower">Jewel Tower</a>. Here the principal records of the Lords remained from 1621 to 1864, being available throughout this period for inspection by the public. The contents of some were given still wider currency in the 18th century as certain Bills and Papers began to be printed, and when, in 1767, the Lords ordered the printing of their Journals. </p><p>Meanwhile, a second parliamentary archive, the records of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a>, had been forming in another part of the Palace of Westminster. Initially, in the Middle Ages, it could be said that no formal records at all were made of the domestic proceedings of the House of Commons. From 1547, however, a Commons Journal survives, and, parallel with the formation in the Lords of the main Parliamentary records under Bowyer and Elsynge, separate series of domestic records of the Commons began to accumulate, of Petitions and Papers (from the reign of Elizabeth I), of Return Books of Elections (from 1625) and of Minute Books of Committees (from 1623).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_archives_after_the_fire_of_1834">The archives after the fire of 1834</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parliamentary_Archives&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The archives after the fire of 1834"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Londres_135..jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Londres_135..jpg/170px-Londres_135..jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Londres_135..jpg/255px-Londres_135..jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Londres_135..jpg/340px-Londres_135..jpg 2x" data-file-width="692" data-file-height="922" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Tower" title="Victoria Tower">Victoria Tower</a>, the largest tower of the <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster" title="Palace of Westminster">Palace of Westminster</a></figcaption></figure> <p>By the early 19th century the House of Commons archive was extensive, but on the night of 16 October 1834 almost the entire stock—with the vital exception of the Commons Journals—was consumed in the "<a href="/wiki/Burning_of_Parliament" title="Burning of Parliament">tally stick fire</a>", which destroyed a great part of the fabric of the Palace of Westminster. The records had been stored in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_Library" title="House of Commons Library">House of Commons Library</a> and various attics throughout the Commons, all of which went up in smoke. </p><p>The House of Lords archive, however, survived. This was in part due to the isolated position of the <a href="/wiki/Jewel_Tower" title="Jewel Tower">Jewel Tower</a>, where the main series of records had been preserved, but also in part owing to the efforts of a Lords clerk, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Henry_Stone_Smith&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henry Stone Smith (page does not exist)">Henry Stone Smith</a>, who threw out of the blazing windows of the main building onto Old Palace Yard many hundreds of bundles of other Lords papers that had not been transferred to the Jewel Tower. These bundles for several decades after the fire led a confused existence, being virtually forgotten by those outside the Parliament Office, until, in 1870, the newly formed <a href="/wiki/Royal_Commission_on_Historical_Manuscripts" title="Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts">Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts</a> began to issue regular reports. In them, the commission drew attention to the extent and variety of manuscripts preserved in the House of Lords. The first Report of the Commission brought to light a packet of letters which had been abandoned by <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">Charles I</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Naseby" title="Battle of Naseby">Battle of Naseby</a>, as well as the "annexed" <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer" title="Book of Common Prayer">Book of Common Prayer</a> of 1662, the <a href="/wiki/Declaration_of_Breda" title="Declaration of Breda">Declaration of Breda</a>, and other <i>public muniments</i> which had "just been untombed from this mausoleum of historic remains" (as <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Duffus_Hardy" title="Thomas Duffus Hardy">Thomas Duffus Hardy</a> and his fellow Commissioners remarked). The succeeding Reports of the Commissioners were continued from 1900 onwards by calendars published by the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> itself. </p><p>During the time that the records were being identified and calendared on behalf of the Historical Manuscripts Commission they were also gradually being installed in a new repository. After the fire of 1834, the House of Lords gave directions that a new building must contain two "Fireproof Repositories for Papers and Documents". <a href="/wiki/Charles_Barry" title="Charles Barry">Charles Barry</a>'s winning design had as its culminating feature a tower over the Royal entrance in which every storey included "Record Rooms". The height of this tower, the "<a href="/wiki/Victoria_Tower" title="Victoria Tower">Queen Victoria Tower</a>", steadily increased from that indicated in the original plan (of some 200 feet (61 m)) until, in 1855, when the wrought-iron flagstaff was at last put into position, the tower was proudly claimed to be not merely "the grandest feature of the building", but the largest and highest square tower in the world, 323 feet (98 m) high to the base of the flagstaff and 395 feet (120 m) high to the top of the crown at its summit. Within the tower, cast-iron spiral staircases of 553 steps linked twelve floors, and on most of the floors there were eight strong rooms—accommodation at that time so ample for the parliamentary records that at one stage the tower was intended also to house the principal holdings of the <a href="/wiki/Public_Record_Office" title="Public Record Office">Public Record Office</a>. </p><p>During the twentieth century, two important developments occurred in the preservation of the parliamentary records. The first concerned the records of the Commons. In 1927 the Clerk of the House of Commons resolved to transfer to the Victoria Tower an extensive post-1834 series of Private Bill records, though still retaining ultimate ownership of them for the House. This precedent has been followed by succeeding Clerks of the Commons, and in 1957 the core records of the House of Commons, the series of some 241 original manuscript Journals, dating from 1547 to 1800, were deposited in the Victoria Tower, by authority of the Speaker of the House. Secondly, in 1937, the then-Clerk of the Parliaments, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Badeley,_1st_Baron_Badeley" title="Henry Badeley, 1st Baron Badeley">Sir Henry Badeley</a>, initiated a survey of the entire Lords archive. The resulting report by V. M. R. Goodman revealed the necessity of a full-time staff (which the records did not then have) to undertake boxing, repair and production of the manuscripts. The <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a> intervened, but in 1946 Badeley set up a House of Lords Record Office, under a Clerk of the Records who was to act as the deputy of the Clerk of the Parliaments in all record matters.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_House_of_Lords_Record_Office">The House of Lords Record Office</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parliamentary_Archives&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The House of Lords Record Office"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>To the Clerk of the Records was entrusted the care of the contents of the Victoria Tower, including both Lords and Commons documents and certain other small groups of records relating to the Palace of Westminster. A public Search Room was opened, and when in the 1950s the Record Office Technical Committee highlighted the need for repairing the thousands of deposited plans in the Victoria Tower, two craftsmen were recruited specifically for this task. Today the conservation unit numbers six staff, on secondment from the British Library. The publication of calendars, which had ceased in 1922, was resumed in 1949 and continued to the 1980s. </p><p>In 1975 the major acquisition of the collections of the Beaverbrook Library expanded the collection to include the papers of <a href="/wiki/David_Lloyd_George" title="David Lloyd George">David Lloyd George</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bonar_Law" title="Bonar Law">Bonar Law</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Max_Aitken,_1st_Baron_Beaverbrook" title="Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook">Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook</a>. </p><p>The principal activity of the House of Lords Record Office, however, in the immediate post-war years concerned the reconstruction of the repository. The Victoria Tower, although ample in dimensions, was found in 1948 to be defective both in its structure and its equipment. In the course of the following years the interior of the Tower was therefore almost entirely rebuilt by the Ministry of Public Building and Works. The resulting repository was air conditioned and contained 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of steel shelving on twelve floors. It was declared open by the <a href="/wiki/Quintin_Hogg,_Baron_Hailsham_of_St_Marylebone" title="Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone">Viscount Hailsham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_House_of_Lords" title="Leader of the House of Lords">Leader of the House of Lords</a>, on 3 July 1963, with the intention, as he said, that "this new building may have a long and distinguished career... in the service of Parliament, history, and culture". This lasted until the late 1990s, when it became clear that the air-conditioning in the repository was failing to comply with required standards, and other services needed updating. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Parliamentary_Archives_today">The Parliamentary Archives today</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parliamentary_Archives&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Parliamentary Archives today"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1996 to 2000, a <a href="/wiki/Records_management" title="Records management">records management</a> survey was undertaken of most of the administrative offices of the <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster" title="Palace of Westminster">Palace of Westminster</a>. The survey findings were incorporated into the <i>Parliamentary Records Management Policy Guidelines</i>, which was approved by both houses. This was followed by a project to implement corporate records management to international standards in Parliament. In 2001, a new post of Freedom of Information Officer was created to develop and implement policies for House of Lords' compliance with the <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_2000" title="Freedom of Information Act 2000">Freedom of Information Act 2000</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998" title="Data Protection Act 1998">Data Protection Act 1998</a>. In 2012 this corporate function moved to the Clerk of the Parliaments' office of the House of Lords. From 2000 to 2004 the <a href="/wiki/Air-conditioning" class="mw-redirect" title="Air-conditioning">air-conditioning</a> and other environmental controls in the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Tower" title="Victoria Tower">Victoria Tower</a> were refurbished to bring it up to the British Standard for archival storage, <a href="/wiki/BS_5454" title="BS 5454">BS 5454</a>, and from 2000 to 2005 a major project converted the paper finding aids of the collections into a single on-line catalogue, known as Portcullis. </p><p>In 1999, the House of Lords Record Office took on the subsidiary title of <i>Parliamentary Archives</i> in order to clarify the custodial responsibility and whereabouts of the House of Commons Archives for members of the public, and in 2006 this became its official name. </p><p>Historical collections of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_Library" title="House of Commons Library">House of Commons Library</a> and <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords_Library" title="House of Lords Library">Lords Library</a> are also available in the Archives. </p><p>Today the archives employs over 30 staff, including archivists, digital archivists, records managers, digitisation and collection care specialists.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The team provide information management, preservation, access and outreach services enabling anyone in the world to use Parliament’s records, both now and in the future. The archives has an operational digital repository and is working to acquire and ensure the long term preservation of Parliament's digital records. New collections also include a <a href="/wiki/Web_archive" class="mw-redirect" title="Web archive">web archive</a> which maintains a history of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://webarchive.parliament.uk/*/http://www.parliament.uk">the main parliamentary website</a> and its <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/parliamentary-archives/search-finding-aids-to-online-collections-/web-archive/parliament-website-archive/">many subsites</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2021, the Parliamentary Archives became an Accredited Archive Service.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2022, it was announced that the Parliamentary Archives would be relocating to The National Archives, Kew, by 2025.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The reasons for the move include challenging environmental conditions of Victoria Tower and increased need for public access to the collections.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Directors_of_the_Archives_(Clerks_of_the_Records)"><span id="Directors_of_the_Archives_.28Clerks_of_the_Records.29"></span>Directors of the Archives (Clerks of the Records)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parliamentary_Archives&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Directors of the Archives (Clerks of the Records)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The head of the archives was known as the Clerk of the Records until a change of job title in 2009 to Director of the Parliamentary Archives. Since 1946 this post has been held by: </p> <ul><li>Francis Needham (1946)</li> <li>Maurice Bond (1946)</li> <li>H S Cobb (1981)</li> <li>David Johnson (1991)</li> <li>Stephen Ellison (1999)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Caroline_Shenton_(archivist)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Caroline Shenton (archivist) (page does not exist)">Caroline Shenton</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Brown_(archivist)" title="Adrian Brown (archivist)">Adrian Brown</a> (2014)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parliamentary_Archives&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-:0-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFThe_National_Archives" class="citation web cs1">The National Archives. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/parliamentary-archives-to-relocate-to-kew/">"Parliamentary Archives to relocate to Kew"</a>. <i>The National Archives</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 April</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+National+Archives&rft.atitle=Parliamentary+Archives+to+relocate+to+Kew&rft.au=The+National+Archives&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalarchives.gov.uk%2Fabout%2Fnews%2Fparliamentary-archives-to-relocate-to-kew%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AParliamentary+Archives" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">M. F. Bond, Guide to the Records of Parliament (London, HMSO, 1970), pp. 1-6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See the administrative history of the Record Office given in the Archives online catalogue at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://archives.parliament.uk/">https://archives.parliament.uk/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See the Annual Reviews at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://archives.parliament.uk/about-us/annual-reports/">https://archives.parliament.uk/about-us/annual-reports/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://webarchive.parliament.uk/">"MirrorWeb - UK Parliament Web Archive"</a>. <i>webarchive.parliament.uk</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">11 January</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=webarchive.parliament.uk&rft.atitle=MirrorWeb+-+UK+Parliament+Web+Archive&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwebarchive.parliament.uk%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AParliamentary+Archives" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFArchives" class="citation web cs1">Archives, The National. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/newly-accredited-archive-services-announced-4/">"The National Archives - Homepage"</a>. <i>The National Archives</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 March</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+National+Archives&rft.atitle=The+National+Archives+-+Homepage&rft.aulast=Archives&rft.aufirst=The+National&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalarchives.gov.uk%2Fabout%2Fnews%2Fnewly-accredited-archive-services-announced-4%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AParliamentary+Archives" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFUK_Parliament" class="citation web cs1">UK Parliament. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/archives-accommodation-programme/">"Archives Relocation Programme"</a>. <i>UK Parliament</i>.</cite><span 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_Library" title="British Library">British Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_War_Museum" title="Imperial War Museum">Imperial War Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Gallery" title="National Gallery">National Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Poetry_Library" title="National Poetry Library">National Poetry Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natural_History_Museum,_London" title="Natural History Museum, London">Natural History Museum</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Parliamentary Archives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_Museum,_London" title="Science Museum, London"> Science Museum</a> (<a href="/wiki/Dana_Research_Centre_and_Library" title="Dana Research Centre and Library">Dana Research Centre and Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)" title="The National Archives (United Kingdom)">The National Archives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum" title="Victoria and Albert Museum">Victoria and Albert Museum</a> (<a href="/wiki/National_Art_Library" title="National Art Library">National Art Library</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/London_boroughs" title="London boroughs">Council</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Barking_and_Dagenham" title="London Borough of Barking and Dagenham">Barking and Dagenham</a> (<a href="/wiki/Valence_House_Museum" title="Valence House Museum">Valence House Museum</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Barnet" title="London Borough of Barnet">Barnet</a> (<a href="/wiki/East_Finchley_Library" title="East Finchley Library">East Finchley Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Brent" title="London Borough of Brent">Brent</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kensal_Rise_Library" title="Kensal Rise Library">Kensal Rise Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Library_at_Willesden_Green" title="The Library at Willesden Green">The Library at Willesden Green</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_of_London" title="City of London">City of London</a> (Artizan Street Library, <a href="/wiki/Barbican_Library" title="Barbican Library">Barbican Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guildhall_Library" title="Guildhall Library">Guildhall Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/London_Metropolitan_Archives" class="mw-redirect" title="London Metropolitan Archives">London Metropolitan Archives</a>, Shoe Lane Library)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_of_Westminster" title="City of Westminster">City of Westminster</a> (<a href="/wiki/Westminster_Reference_Library" title="Westminster Reference Library">Westminster Reference Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Camden" title="London Borough of Camden">Camden</a> (<a href="/wiki/Swiss_Cottage_Library" title="Swiss Cottage Library">Swiss Cottage Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Croydon" title="London Borough of Croydon">Croydon</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ashburton_Learning_Village" title="Ashburton Learning Village">Ashburton Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Croydon_Central_Library" title="Croydon Central Library">Croydon Central Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Addington_Library" title="New Addington Library">New Addington Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Norwood_Library" title="South Norwood Library">South Norwood Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Upper_Norwood_Library" title="Upper Norwood Library">Upper Norwood Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Haringey" title="London Borough of Haringey">Haringey</a> (<a href="/wiki/Muswell_Hill_Library" title="Muswell Hill Library">Muswell Hill Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Hillingdon" title="London Borough of Hillingdon">Hillingdon</a> (<a href="/wiki/Manor_Farm,_Ruislip" title="Manor Farm, Ruislip">Manor Farm</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Islington" title="London Borough of Islington">Islington</a> (Finsbury Library, <a href="/wiki/Islington_Local_History_Centre" title="Islington Local History Centre">Islington Local History Centre</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Borough_of_Kensington_and_Chelsea" title="Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea">Kensington and Chelsea</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kensington_Central_Library" title="Kensington Central Library">Kensington Central Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Lambeth" title="London Borough of Lambeth">Lambeth</a> (<a href="/wiki/Brixton_Library" title="Brixton Library">Brixton Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Library,_Herne_Hill" title="Carnegie Library, Herne Hill">Carnegie Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Durning_Library" title="Durning Library">Durning Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lambeth_Archives" title="Lambeth Archives">Lambeth Archives</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minet_Library" title="Minet Library">Minet Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Streatham_Library" title="Streatham Library">Streatham Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Upper_Norwood_Library" title="Upper Norwood Library">Upper Norwood Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Merton" title="London Borough of Merton">Merton</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mitcham_Library" title="Mitcham Library">Mitcham Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Southwark" title="London Borough of Southwark">Southwark</a> (<a href="/wiki/Dulwich_Library" title="Dulwich Library">Dulwich Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Harvard_Library" title="John Harvard Library">John Harvard Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peckham_Library" title="Peckham Library">Peckham Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Tower_Hamlets" title="London Borough of Tower Hamlets">Tower Hamlets</a> (<a 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(<a href="/wiki/Imperial_College_London_Abdus_Salam_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial College London Abdus Salam Library">Abdus Salam Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_College_London" title="King's College London">King's College London</a> (<a href="/wiki/Maughan_Library" title="Maughan Library">Maughan Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_School_of_Economics" title="London School of Economics">London School of Economics</a> (<a href="/wiki/British_Library_of_Political_and_Economic_Science" title="British Library of Political and Economic Science">British Library of Political and Economic Science</a>, <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Library" title="Women's Library">Women's Library</a>, <a href="/wiki/LSE_Shaw_Library" title="LSE Shaw Library">Shaw Library</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_the_Arts_London" title="University of the Arts London">University of the Arts London</a> (<a href="/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick_Archive" title="Stanley Kubrick Archive">Stanley Kubrick Archive</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_London" title="University of London">University of London</a> (<a href="/wiki/Senate_House_Libraries" title="Senate House Libraries">Senate House Libraries</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Charitable</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bishopsgate_Library" title="Bishopsgate Library">Bishopsgate Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feminist_Library" title="Feminist Library">Feminist Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Skaryna_Belarusian_Library_and_Museum" title="Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum">Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Library_for_Iranian_Studies_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="Library for Iranian Studies (London)">Library for Iranian Studies</a></li> <li><a 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