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@SK53 @nfgusedautoparts the "History Commons" site it redirects to has this page listed: https://history-commons.net/artifacts/2678911/ho_203_data_transcription_update/3702137/

I can't see a link to download the dataset, presumably because it's listed as "Premium" and I'm a pleb?

@ohm #WWII #NationalArchives

Google celebrates America’s 250th anniversary with AI-driven history experience

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/google-america-250/

Google celebrates America’s 250th anniversary with AI-driven history experience

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/google-america-250/

Google celebrates America’s 250th anniversary with AI-driven history experience

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/google-america-250/

Google celebrates America’s 250th anniversary with AI-driven history experience

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/google-america-250/

Google celebrates America’s 250th anniversary with AI-driven history experience

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/google-america-250/

Step inside St Mary’s Church, Putney in 1647, where soldiers, radicals, and reformers wrestled with bold, world shaping ideas about rights, representation, and how society should be governed. #democracy #englishcivilwar #nationalArchives #podcast https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/on-the-record-podcast/on-the-record-the-putney-debates/

The FBI’s secret fight to track down American traitors in Europe during WWII

Monumental battles between Allied and German forces in Holland, Belgium, eastern France, northern Italy and along Germany’s western…
#Europe #EU #Americanmen #ArmyLiaisonUnit #DonaldL.Daughters #fbi #FrederickAyerJr. #Germanforces #NationalArchives #specialagents #stephen-harding #WilliamJoseph“WildBill”Donovan
https://www.europesays.com/europe/7547/

@NiceBastard
Für Nicht-Archivar:innen wie mich ist die angegebene US-Website leider ziemlich unübersichtlich. Gibt´s einen Link, unter dem sich direkt mit der Personensuche loslegen lässt? Wenn den wer hätte (oder rausfinden) und hier posten könnte, wäre das großartig.

#ns #nsdap #usa #nationalarchives

The National Archives Foundation is now accepting applications for the Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women's History.

Deadline to apply is April 15, 2026.

The fellowship awards up to $12,500 to support one to three fellows conducting new research at the National Archives to elevate women’s history.

https://archivesfoundation.org/cokie-roberts-fellowship/

#NationalArchives #CokieRobertsFoundation #WomensHistory #fellowship

AI systems could use Met Office and National Archives data under UK plans https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/26/ai-systems-met-office-national-archives-data-uk-government-plans #AiArtificialIntelligence #NationalArchives #MetOffice #Museums #Labour #NaturalHistoryMuseum #ImperialWarMuseums #UniversityOfOxford #KewGardens #Va #Technology #Politics #Heritage #UkNews #Culture

Documents from the nation’s founding on tour for America 250

Ten documents from the nation’s founding era are leaving their home at the National Archives in D.C. and…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #america's250 #declarationofindependence #documents #exhibit #FoundingFathers #lukelukert #nationalarchives #semiquincentennial #UnitedStatesofAmerica #UShistory
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/419778/

Documents from the nation’s founding on tour for America 250

Ten documents from the nation’s founding era are leaving their home at the National Archives in D.C. and…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #america's250 #declarationofindependence #documents #exhibit #FoundingFathers #lukelukert #nationalarchives #semiquincentennial #UnitedStatesofAmerica #UShistory
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/419778/

Trump Claims Executive Privilege To Keep More Than 4,000 January 6 Documents Locked Up

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/10/trump-claims-executive-privilege-to-keep-more-than-4000-january-6-documents-locked-up/

🍪 In a stunning display of courtroom drama, two tech titans duke it out over something you'd probably only care about if you're deeply into digital cookie policies. Meanwhile, the National Archives reminds you that even your cookie preferences are more interesting than this spat. 🍪
https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/kb/2025/3063 #courtroomdrama #techtitans #digitalcookies #cookiepolicies #NationalArchives #HackerNews #ngated

What keeps the #HouseOversightCommittee (aside from the #GovernmentShutdown) to subpoena #DonaldTrump's and #PamBondi's #TruthSocial DMs to be archived by the #NationAlarchives?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfcIh7RFRk0

https://piped.video/watch?v=wfcIh7RFRk0

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=wfcIh7RFRk0

#GovernmentShutdown2025 #uspol #politics #VindictiveProsecution #BadFaithProsecution #JamesComeyIndictment #LetitiaJamesIndictment #JamesComey #LetitiaJames #Trump #DepartmentOfJustice #PresidentialRecordsAct

It's not at all clear what the "National Archives Foundation" is, how it is financed or its actual relationship to the National Archives. (The board is rich "executives," with only one that has any background in history.) But their "DocsTeach" website has some interesting stuff in it.

#USHistory #NationalArchives

https://docsteach.org/

If you want to understand the UK Gov’t institutional mindset around data protection: a 40yo “top secret” document is found in the national archives, and the finder is all of a flutter…

Yes I know about VENONA, yes I understand compartmented & codeword information protection, yes I know some of it could be current, I don’t care, to get there it has gone through official process, it’s likely been in the national archives for 10+ years already, that horse has already bolted, it should not be for amateur sleuths to gainsay the wisdom of the government releasing documents under its own processes and/or to protect it from itself.

https://twitter.com/pinstripedline/status/1966110131617411561

https://twitter.com/pinstripedline/status/1966180590945972369

#codeWord #compartmented #FFS #nationalArchives #secret #topSecret

Previously unknown Shakespeare family will found in UK National Archives. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/shakespeare-family-will-found-by-historian/ #WilliamShakespeare #NationalArchives

Besides the #NationalArchives museum - see👆🏽- and Holocaust museum - see 👆🏽👆🏽- we all went to the Air&Space museum in #WashingtonDC
It was pretty neat for sure (I highly advice getting free! timed entry tickets and skipping the looong line)

Hey they had the original model for the #USSEnterprise and it lit up too!

https://airandspace.si.edu/visit/museum-dc

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More pics and details of symbols and insignia in the #NationalArchives museum rotunda in #WashingtonDC
One curved portion of the ceiling before the dome has roses to signify the 'sub rosa' aspect of the Declaration of Independence

The floor medallion has symbols for War, History, Justice and Legislation

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https://visit.archives.gov/visit/about-national-archives

The rotunda (modelled after the pantheon) at the National Archives has the constitution and bill of rights and the declaration of Independence. And a lot of related information. So much symbolism in that space - and many thanks to the docents for explaining so much
#NationalArchives

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The first 'museum' we went to this past week on our trip to #WashingtonDC was the #NationalArchives Right from the start - 1 of 4 existing copies of the Magna Carta from 1297 there are some great exhibits and explanations.

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You can access the #BBC #Domesday #DomesdayProject data and pictures on the UK #NationalArchives #DomesdayReloaded site, although it's not the same without the laserdisc whirring away...

Here is the totally real and not made up at all Battle of Huntingdon:

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20120321122412/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/GB-524000-270000/page/2

New #job Freelance Teacher (onsite) @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy #London Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/freelan... Apply by 11 August 2025 #GEMJobs #MuseumEd #EducationJobs #NationalArchives #Freelance #FreelanceJobs #HeritageJobs

Freelance Teacher (Onsite) - G...

You have to ask what a "legitimate business need" might be in Trumpistan.

Oh, and yes, this is what fascism looks like.

#Politics #USA #NationalArchives #Fascism

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: The National Archives, that place where dusty records go to die, is closing the gates to the public starting July 7. Apparently, they’ve decided that ancient army unit records and grainy motion pictures are best appreciated in complete isolation. 📜🤦‍♂️ Because nothing says “public service” like banning the public. 🙄
https://www.archives.gov/college-park #NationalArchives #PublicAccess #Closure #News #AncientRecords #HackerNews #ngated

National Archives to restrict public access starting July 7

https://www.archives.gov/college-park

#HackerNews #NationalArchives #publicAccess #restrictions #July2023 #archives #news

This announcement is alarming. It is unclear what "a legitimate business need" means or who will make that determination. Are they planning to review the research plans of individual scholars? https://www.archives.gov/college-park #NationalArchives #authoritarianism

🚀🥸 Oh, joy! The National Archives just released a fancy stack of UAP files, because what we clearly need is MORE proof of flying frisbees terrorizing our skies. Meanwhile, the most shocking revelation is how many acronyms a single page can contain. 🗂️👽
https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2025/nr25-07 #UAPfiles #NationalArchives #FlyingFrisbees #AcronymsInDocuments #AlienEvidence #HackerNews #ngated

National Archives Releases Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Records

https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2025/nr25-07

#HackerNews #NationalArchives #UAPRecords #AnomalousPhenomena #UFOs #Disclosure

@kelvin0mql @Strandjunker
As @GaslitNation just shared, He just took over the #NationalArchives which controls the mechanics of the #ElectoralCollege and Constitutional amendments

So a third term is just a technicality away

#TeslaTakedown must have a follow-up target 🎯

@cdarwin
#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate #Fascism
#NationalArchive

PS
I'm aware that #the #NationalArchives are neither the #InternetArchive,nor #Wikipedia , but #Longtermist #ElonMusk is already coming for them, too:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-wikipedia/681577/

@cdarwin
#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate #Fascism
#NationalArchive

PS
I'm aware that #the #NationalArchives are neither the #InternetArchive,nor #Wikipedia , but #Longtermist #ElonMusk is already coming for them, too:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-wikipedia/681577/

@cdarwin
#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate #Fascism
#NationalArchive

PS
I'm aware that #the #NationalArchives are neither the #InternetArchive,nor #Wikipedia , but #Longtermist #ElonMusk is already coming for them, too:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-wikipedia/681577/

@cdarwin
#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate #Fascism
#NationalArchive

PS
I'm aware that #the #NationalArchives are neither the #InternetArchive,nor #Wikipedia , but #Longtermist #ElonMusk is already coming for them, too:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-wikipedia/681577/

@cdarwin
#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate #Fascism
#NationalArchive

PS
I'm aware that #the #NationalArchives are neither the #InternetArchive,nor #Wikipedia , but #Longtermist #ElonMusk is already coming for them, too:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-wikipedia/681577/

@cdarwin
#TrumpCoup #USpol #TrumpMuskDuumvirate #Fascism

"👉#NationalArchives Head Resigns as Trump Takes Control of Records👈
Sources name conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt
+ far-right journalist John Solomon as potential replacements."

What the #US fascist party, #AmericaFirst, didn't accomplish in the 1940's, is happening now.
This is what I wrote a year ago:

👉If I were a fascist dictator, I'd have it raided and eliminated right after holding the reins of power.👈

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112740036407493993

Update. I still don't know the full story behind the takedown of the #NelsonMemo. But here's a clue. The Dept of Defense (#DOD) continued rolling its memo-based #OpenAccess policy *after* Trump took office and *after* the memo was taken down.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/113964410103345053

That's a sign that agencies have not been told to stop rolling out their memo-based policy upgrades. But of course that may change.

Also note that memo is preserved in the #NationalArchives, for now, not just in the Wayback Machine.
https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf

(Yes, I'm aware that Trump fired Colleen Shogan, the Biden-era National Archivist.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/politics/trump-fires-the-nations-archivist-in-latest-round-of-personnel-purge.html

#USPol #USPolitics

Since I am one of the three people left who can read cursive, I volunteered to help the National Archives transcribe hand-written pension files from the Revolutionary War. It's a pretty cool diversion during the day and it only takes a few minutes.

https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions/revolutionary-war-pension-files

#cursive #transcribe #transcription #pension #RevolutionaryWar #history #nationalarchives

If you can read #cursive #NationalArchives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 yrs worth of US #documents need #transcribing (or at least classifying) vast majority from #RevolutionaryWar era are handwritten in #cursive requiring people who know the flowing, looped form of #penmanship. “Reading cursive is a superpower." Some 5,000 Citizen Archivists R helping the Archive read & transcribe some of the more than 300 million digitized objects in its catalog https://www.bespacific.com/can-you-read-cursive-its-a-superpower-the-national-archives-is-looking-for/

Can you read cursive? It's a #superpower the #NationalArchives is looking for.

More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need #transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from the #RevolutionaryWar era are #handwritten in #cursive – requiring people who know the flowing, looped form of #penmanship
#history

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/12/national-archives-needs-citizen-archivists-cursive/77493951007/

Live Aid campaigner Bob Geldof was ‘scathing about African leaders’, files reveal https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/31/live-aid-campaigner-bob-geldof-was-scathing-about-african-leaders-files-reveal #Globaldevelopment #NationalArchives #BobGeldof #TonyBlair #Worldnews #Politics #LiveAid #Culture #Africa #UKnews #Music #Aid

Labour government discussed Tanzania asylum camp plan in 2004, files show https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/31/labour-government-2004-tanzania-asylum-camp-plan-national-archives-files #Immigrationandasylum #NationalArchives #DavidBlunkett #HilaryBenn #HomeOffice #JackStraw #Tanzania #Refugees #England #UKnews #Africa #Labour

#NationalArchives and #Biden - #appointed #Archivist #ColleenShogan directed alterations to #exhibits, obscuring #Inconvenient parts of #US #History, per a recent #WallStreetJournal #report.

The #censored #images featured #CivilRights #Leaders, #ForcedRelocation of #Indigenous #Peoples, and #Japanese #Internment during #WWII.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #DemocraticParty #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/national-archives-accused-censorship-displays-1234723337/

If this is what just one careerist civil servant does out of cowardice at merely the *potential* of a Trump presidency, you can imagine what might happen if and when he actually does.

#historicalRevisionism #NationalArchives #nationalShame #tyranny #FireThisCoward

https://www.commondreams.org/news/the-national-archives-museum

The #NationalArchives releases Cabinet Office files online includes papers of former prime ministers, including of Sir Winston #Churchill, and records of the #Denning #Profumo Inquiry 1963. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/the-national-archives-releases-cabinet-office-files-online/

Is it just me, or is that the old #Netscape #netscapenavigator icon as the favicon there:

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

#UnitedStatesConstitution
#Archives

Look at the #NationalArchives archives representin' good ol' Netscape.

But why?

Maybe it just looks like it. My vision is declining!

@harriettmb

#UKpol #UDAUKGovCollusion #PoliticalMurder

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#Politics

*#TonyBlair worked behind scenes to thwart #PatFinucane public inquiry after discussion with #MI5 boss*

#PrimeMinister’s view of case was discussed with his inner circle and recorded in document discovered by #BelfastTelegraph at The #NationalArchives in #Kew
...

...👉Mr #Finucane was slaughtered in front of his young children👈,...

https://archive.is/56skY

@harriettmb

#UKpol #UDAUKGovCollusion #PoliticalMurder

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Here's the full text you were looking for:

#Politics

*#TonyBlair worked behind scenes to thwart #PatFinucane public inquiry after discussion with #MI5 boss*

#PrimeMinister’s view of case was discussed with his inner circle and recorded in document discovered by #BelfastTelegraph at The #NationalArchives in #Kew
...

...👉Mr #Finucane was slaughtered in front of his young children👈,...

https://archive.is/56skY