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A staff member removing files from the shelves of The National Archives

The National Archives to reduce services on strike day on 28 April

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Trove’s future secured with Australian government funding

A 1926 Irish census form

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Irish census records Staff and guests Boyle's hotel Ireland 1900

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Irish census records and census substitutes

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Forces War Records relaunches with over 590 million records

Tahitia McCabe is the head of the Institute for Genealogical Studies

University of Strathclyde establishes Institute for Genealogical Studies

2nd December 1955: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien ( 1892 - 1973) the South African-born philologist and author of 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord Of The Rings'. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8464 - Professor J R R Tolkien - unpub. Original Publication: People Disc - HM0232 (Photo by Haywood Magee/Getty Images)

Unseen Tolkien letters discovered at The National Archives

The baptism of Wilbert Vere Awdry (bottom)

Ancestry adds over one million Hampshire baptism records

German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) composing the 'Missa Solemnis', February-April 1820. Oil painting by August Klober. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

DNA testing finds Ludwig van Beethoven ‘wasn’t really a Beethoven’

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How to date old wedding photographs

Baby in pram next to his grandfather

Best photo colourisation apps tested

WW2 service records go online

Ancestry wins contract to digitise Ministry of Defence records

Squadron Leader Arthur Scarf

Fundraising appeal to save Second World War Victoria Cross

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British, American and Allied prisoners of war are liberated from the POW camp at Altengrabow, 1945

Volunteers complete cataloguing of Second World War POW records