List of archives in the United Kingdom

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

UK-wide archives

• UK Data Archive, Colchester
• UK Government Web Archive
• UK Web Archive

Archives in England

• Archaeology Data Service, York
• Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies, Dagenham
• Barnsley Archives and Local Studies
• Bath Record Office
• Battersea Dogs & Cats Home Archive, London
• BBC Archives
• BBC Sound Archive
• Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service, Bedford
• Berkshire Record Office, Reading
• Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre, London
• Birmingham City Archives
• Bishopsgate Institute, London
• Black Cultural Archives, Brixton
• 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 Archives
• Bromley Historic Collections, Kent
• 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
• Downside Abbey Archives, Somerset (includes archives of the English Benedictine Congregation)
• Dudley Archives and Local History
• Durham County Record Office
• East London Theatre Archive
• East Riding of Yorkshire Archive Service
• East Sussex Record Office, Lewes
• EMI Archive Trust, Hayes
• Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR), London ^[2]
• 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
• Hackney Archives
• Hampshire Record Office
• Harrow School Archives, Harrow
• Herefordshire Record Office
• Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
• Historic England Archive, Swindon
• Hull City Archives
• Hull History Centre: Hull City Archives, Hull University Archives and Local Studies Library
• Hyman Archive, London
• Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Archives
• India Office Records at The British Library
• Islington Local History Centre, London
• Kent History and Library Centre, Maidstone
• Kingston History Centre, Kingston upon Thames
• 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
• Manchester Digital Music Archive
• Media Archive for Central England
• Medway Archives, Strood
• Mills Archive, Reading
• Modern Records Centre, near Coventry
• The National Archives [of the United Kingdom], Kew
• National Co-operative Archive, Manchester
• National Jazz Archive, Loughton, Essex
• National Gas Archive, Warrington
• National Theatre Archive, London
• Newham Archives and Local Studies Library
• 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
• Redbridge Heritage Centre, Ilford
• Rotherham Archives and Local Studies Service
• Royal Archives, Windsor
• Royal College of Nursing Archives, Edinburgh
• Royal College of Physicians Archives, London
• Royal Mail Archive, London
• Sainsbury Archive, London
• Sandwell Community History and Archives Service
• Savoy Archives, London
• Shropshire Archives, Shrewsbury
• Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office, Stratford-upon-Avon
• Sheffield Archives
• Somerset Archives and Local Studies
• 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
• Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives, London
• Transport for London Corporate Archives, London
• Tyne and Wear Archives Service, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• Walsall Local History Centre
• Waltham Forest Archives and Local Studies Library
• Warwickshire County Record Office, Warwick
• Waterways Archive, Gloucester
• Wellcome Collection, London
• 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]
• Archive Services, University of Dundee ^[4]
• East Dunbartonshire Archives
• Glasgow University Archive Services, Glasgow
• Highland Council Archive, Inverness
• National Archives of Scotland
• Nucleus, the Nuclear and Caithness Archives
• Tasglann nan Eilean (Hebridean Archives), Stornoway

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
• Roderic Bowen Library and Archive, Lampeter
• West Glamorgan Archive Service, Swansea

See also

• List of archives
• County record office and Category:County record offices in England
• 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 2016-03-04.
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.