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The London Archives will be closing for Christmas at 4.30pm on Monday 23 December. We reopen at 10am on Thursday 2 January 2025.

Funded and Managed by
City of London Corporation
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Our work

Preserving and sharing London's Archives

What we do at The London Archives

Preserving and sharing London's archives requires a broad range of skills and knowledge. Our Collections Advice team lead on the management of our research rooms and research experience.

Archivists and Archive Officers working within our Collections Knowledge and Development team assess and bring in new acquisitions, before cataloguing them and making them available for use. Our Collections Care team preserve the collections, managing storage conditions and repairing damaged items. Our Digital Content and Development team create and publish digital content, sharing London's history through our exhibitions and websites.

They all work with colleagues look after our buildings and retrieve documents from our repositories, and our Engagement and Learning team who manage our events and schools programmes.

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Our Work
Collections Care
Archive conservation at The London Archives
Discover the work of our Collections Care team and the services they offer.
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Our Work
Digitisation
Our commercial digitisation offer
Explore our digitisation services for organisations and individuals.
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Our Work
New Acquisitions
Collecting and preserving London's history
Find out which records we collect and how you can you deposit archives.

Projects

Our project programme is an essential part of our work at The London Archives. Our projects, which are often generously funded by partners or grant giving bodies provide opportunities to improve collections and services and share them with new and bigger audiences. They also provide opportunities for new project teams to work on new and exisiting collections at The London Archives, developing new skills and knowledge.

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Our Work
Bridging History Project
City Bridge project
We're currently taking part in a project to look after the archive collections of Tower Bridge and other City of London river crossings
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Our Work
Positive History Project
Preserving the archives of HIV/AIDS
Find out about the Positive History Project at The London Archives.
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Our Work
The Africa Centre Project
Cataloguing the collection
Preserving and cataloguing the records of The Africa Centre