List of archives in the United Kingdom

This is a list of archives in the United Kingdom. As of 2009 there were 122 national, 654 local, 328 university, 1,224 special and 61 business archives.^[1]

Archives in England

• Barnsley Archives and Local Studies
• Bath Record Office
• BBC Sound Archive
• Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service, Bedford
• Berkshire Record Office, Reading
• Birmingham City Archives
• Borthwick Institute for Archives, York
• BFI National Archive, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire and Gaydon, Warwickshire
• BP Archive, near Coventry (shares premises with the Modern Records Centre)
• Bristol Record Office
• BT Archives, London
• Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies, Cambridge and Huntingdon
• Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, London
• Canterbury Cathedral Archives
• Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, Aylesbury
• Cheshire Record Office, Chester
• City of Westminster Archives Centre
• Cornwall Record Office, Truro
• Coventry Archives
• Cumbria Archive Service, Barrow, Carlisle, Kendal and Whitehaven
• Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock
• Devon Record Office, Exeter
• Doncaster Archives
• Dorset History Centre, Dorchester
• Dudley Archives and Local History
• Durham County Record Office
• East London Theatre Archive
• East Riding of Yorkshire Archive Service
• East Sussex Record Office, Lewes
• Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR), London ^[2]
• English Heritage Archive, Swindon
• Essex Record Office, Chelmsford, Colchester, Harlow, Saffron Walden and Southend
• Family Records Centre, London
• George Padmore Institute, London
• Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucester
• Greater Manchester County Record Office
• Hampshire Record Office
• Herefordshire Record Office
• Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
• Hull City Archives
• Hull History Centre - Hull City Archives, Hull University Archives and Local Studies Library
• Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Archives
• India Office Records at The British Library
• Kent History and Library Centre, Maidstone
• Lambeth Archives
• Lambeth Palace Library
• Lebrecht Photo Library, St John's Wood, London
• Lichfield Record Office
• Lincolnshire Archives, Lincoln
• Liverpool Record Office
• London Metropolitan Archives
• Manchester Archives and Local Studies
• Media Archive for Central England
• Medway Archives, Strood
• Modern Records Centre, near Coventry
• The National Archives [of the United Kingdom], Kew
• National Co-operative Archive, Manchester
• National Jazz Archive
• National Gas Archive, Warrington
• Norfolk Record Office, Norwich
• North Highland Archive, Wick
• North Yorkshire County Record Office, Northallerton
• Northamptonshire Record Office, Northampton
• Northumberland Record Office, Berwick-upon-Tweed and Woodhorn
• Nottinghamshire Archives, Nottingham
• Nottingham University, Manuscripts and Special Collections
• Oldham Local Studies and Archives
• Oxfordshire Record Office, Cowley near Oxford
• Parliamentary Archives, London (formerly the House of Lords Record Office)
• Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
• Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, near Leicester
• Rotherham Archives and Local Studies Service
• Royal Archives, Windsor
• Royal Mail Archive, London
• Sandwell Community History and Archives Service
• Shropshire Archives, Shrewsbury
• Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office, Stratford-upon-Avon
• Sheffield Archives
• Somerset Archive & Record Service
• Sorabji Archive, Hereford
• Southampton Archives
• Staffordshire Record Office, Stafford
• Stoke on Trent City Archives
• Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich and Lowestoft
• Surrey History Centre, Woking
• Teesside Archives, Middlesbrough
• Tyne and Wear Archives Service, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• Walsall Local History Centre
• Warwickshire County Records Office, Warwick
• Waterways Archive, Gloucester
• West Sussex Record Office, Chichester
• West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds and Wakefield
• Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, Chippenham
• Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies
• Worcestershire Record Office
• York City Archive

Archives in Northern Ireland

• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Archives in Scotland

• Angus Archives
• Archives of the University of Glasgow
• Ayrshire Archives
• Clackmannanshire Archives
• Dundee City Archives^[3]
• East Dunbartonshire Archives
• Glasgow University Archive Services, Glasgow
• Highland Council Archive, Inverness
• National Archives of Scotland
• Archive Services, University of Dundee^[4]

Archives in Wales

• A.N. Palmer Centre for Local Studies and Archives, Wrexham
• Anglesey County Record Office, Llangefni
• Caernarfon Record Office
• Carmarthenshire Archives Service
• Ceredigion Archives, Aberystwyth
• Conwy Archive Service, Llandudno
• Flintshire Record Office, Hawarden
• Denbighshire Record Office, Ruthin
• Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff
• Gwent Archives, Ebbw Vale ^[5]
• Meirionnydd Record Office, Dolgellau
• National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
• Pembrokeshire Record Office
• Powys County Archives Office, Llandrindod Wells
• West Glamorgan Archive Service, Swansea

See also

• List of archives
• List of museums in the United Kingdom
• Culture of the United Kingdom

References

1. "Libraries, Archives, Museums and Publishing Online Statistics Tables". LISU. Loughborough University. 2009. Archived from the original on 2013-08-07.
2. "Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR)".
3. "Dundee City Archives". Dundee City Council. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
4. "Archive Services". University of Dundee. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
5. "Gwent records office to open next month", South Wales Argus, 29 September 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2016.

External links

• Category:United Kingdom in Archives Wiki