UK Archive Sector Leadership

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Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England. Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/

An office space where several people are sat around a table with a computer monitor, projector and other devices. In the foreground, open record books and documents are laid out on a table.
A record keeper stands at the end of a long aisle way in a repository holding a grey carboard box. The metal shelves surrounding them are filled with identical grey cardboard boxes.
A black-and-white photograph of a row of 10 women, all wearing a dark military jacket and skirt, and each standing next to a camera on a tripod.
A record keeper and seven young people stand around a table in a reading room examining documents. These include a large document containing diagrams and an open book containing illustrations.
Five people stand in front of a wall of book shelves talking. Two of the people appear to be in fancy dress. One man wears a top hat, long black coat, cravat and golden pocket watch. Another woman wears a Victorian era blue dress.
An archive professional works on several laptops and computer monitors at once. They also have blank CDs on their desk, indicating digital preservation work.
A researcher sits in a reading room studying a large document
Four people sit around a table in a room with a large bookshelf. One of them has a laptop open. Everyone is looking at something on the screen.
A room full of cardboard signs, banners and posters with written messages advocating for queer rights.
A woman wearing a red shirt examines black and white magazines in a reading room.
The four project team members stand in a line in front of sound and video recording equipment.
Two record keepers are sat in a library. One is showing the other a large open record book resting on a book display pillow.
A wide shot of a man sat in the sound booth of an exhibition space listening to something on headphones.
A group of adults and five children stand in front of a colourful van illustrated with a drawing of blue skies and green fields. There’s a golden logo on the van that reads “The Archives Job”. The five children wear white lab coats.
Archivist looks through large documents in hanging cabinet at Ironbridge Museum Trust.
Six people sit around a table working with laptops and documents. Behind them stand shelves filled with hundreds of books.
An archivist carefully lifts a laminated illustration from a red metal cabinet wearing protective gloves. Various models of ships sit atop of the cabinet.
Four people sit around a table in a room with a large bookshelf. One of them has a laptop open. Everyone is looking at something on the screen.
A collection of archive material, including old photographs and music sheets, displayed together
A black and white photograph of two women in a newspaper office in 1917, pulling proofs from printing equipment and correcting type
Archivist looks through large documents in hanging cabinet at Ironbridge Museum Trust.
15-20 people gathered around a long table in a large library/study space, listening to a presentation being delivered. A large pull-up screen displays a presentation.
GIF description – A white screen which types out in blue text ‘#ArchivesForJustice’ in English, then French, then Spanish.
A woman in a repository looks through a stack of large signs, most prominently one entitled ‘The Liverpool Child Welfare Association’
A man sits at a desk looking at an interactive screen, against the backdrop of book shelves. Another man, wearing a volunteer badge, points to the screen as if giving advice.
Two record keepers stand in the aisle of a repository looking through a pile of black and white photographs. Metal shelves are lined with a combination of cardboard and wooden boxes.
A woman wearing a colourful head scarf and a man wearing glasses read from a slim orange book. The background is blurred.
A staff member in an archive conservation studio holds a clear plastic sheet against a very large paper document.
A person wearing glasses and a puffer jacket stands in a large exhibition space pressing their fingers against a touchscreen display. They hold an armoured cable headphone, that is attached to the screen, against their ear. In the background, the words 'Central Library Café' are displayed on the wall.
A person wearing glasses and a puffer jacket stands in a large exhibition space pressing their fingers against a touchscreen display. They hold an armoured cable headphone, that is attached to the screen, against their ear. In the background, the words 'Central Library Cafe' are displayed on the wall.
A black and white photograph of a saxophonist and an accordion player performing for a large audience, made up primarily of young children.
An archivist crouches down in a repository and goes through banana boxes of un-archived materials
A close-up shot of a man wearing glasses holding up a piece of paper with hand written text on it.
A woman opens the door to a chiller cold room containing boxes of records.
A woman removes a cardboard box from a long set of shelves in a strong room.
Two people sit in the reading area at Hackney Archives reading books.
Two staff members have a discussion in a half-complete exhibition space. Behind them, framed photographs are mounted on the walls, as is an information board that reads ‘Volunteer at LMA’. Sheets of printed information are laid out on the table in front of them.
Five people are gathered around one side of a table covered in black and white photographs, against a backdrop of book shelves. One of the seated people holds up a photograph of someone carrying buckets through a snowy landscape.
Two people sit at computer monitors working in the Edge Hill University archive.
A woman sits at a desk digitising an image through a computer monitor. A digital camera and an open record book can also be seen on the workspace.
A man sits at a desk looking at an interactive screen, against the backdrop of book shelves. Another man, wearing a volunteer badge, points to the screen as if giving advice.
A man wearing a lanyard sits in an office watching something on a computer monitor.
A woman looks down at photographs and records in a glass exhibition case, placed in what appears to be a library or reading room.
The red front covers of the 1957 Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society Catalogue.
A person’s hand goes to slot a CD, packed in a labelled plastic wallet, into a carboard box broken up into labelled segments. This sits on the same desk as various computer screens and a pile of more CDs.
A painted portrait of people engaged in rural dancing on a grassy plain against a mountainous backdrop.
Two people stand either side of a display showing an illustration of Karl Marx with the heading 'Marx Memorial Library and Workers' School'.
Two archive professionals hold up a laminated photograph for a male visitor to see. They have a cardboard box with more laminated photographs and documents open in front of them.
Two volunteers sit at a table reading through a book of magistrate records. They also have laptops set up in front of them.
Two school children sit at a table studying an old landscape photograph.
15-20 people gathered around a long table in a large library/study space, listening to a presentation being delivered. A large pull-up screen displays a presentation.
A woman, wearing an apron, operates a hand press machine in a conservation studio.
A researcher stands over a table studying a large, foxed document laid down with bag weights.
A person wearing glasses and a puffer jacket stands in a large exhibition space pressing their fingers against a touchscreen display. They hold an armoured cable headphone, that is attached to the screen, against their ear. In the background, the words 'Central Library Cafe' are displayed on the wall.
A record keeper, wearing a rainbow lanyard and glasses, stands inside a strongroom repository removing a vinyl sleeve from a cardboard box.
A man stands in the middle of a large exhibition space lined with glass cabinets filled with books. He looks at a wide open book displayed inside its own separate glass cabinet.
Two people stand side by side looking at a display of posters, newspaper cuttings and exhibition labels.
A woman sits at a computer monitor holding a hand-written document. Another woman stands next to her, also holding the document and pointing at a particular section with a pencil.
A researcher stands at a desk holding a scroll tied up with string. On the opposite side of the desk, a member of staff removes more scrolls from a carboard box.
A woman wearing a red dress sits in a reading room consulting an open book laid out on a cushion and writes down notes with a pencil.