The National Archives is a government department and an
executive agency of the Secretary of State for Justice. It
brings together the Public Record Office, Historical Manuscripts
Commission, the Office of Public Sector Information and Her
Majesty's Stationery Office. It is also the UK government's
official archive, containing 900 years of history with records
ranging from the Doomesday Book and parchment and paper scrolls
through to digital files and archived websites. The National
Archives makes open records available to all, either onsite or
online, continuously developing new tools to make history
tangible for everyone. Part of the National Archives Website is
the ARCHON Directory, which includes contact details for record
repositories in the United Kingdom and also for institutions
elsewhere in the world which have substantial collections of
manuscripts noted under the indexes to the National Register of
Archives. This is an extensive collection of repositories with
2050 listed in England alone. The Nati