Useful websites - National institutions

Incorporating the Public Record Office (PRO) for national government records, and the Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC), which maintains the National Register of Archives and the Manorial Documents Register.

Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU

Tel 020 8876 3444

Email  enquiry@nationalarchives.gov.uk

 

Other sites within the National Archives are:

A practical online tutorial for beginners covering Latin in use 1086-1733.

A practical online tutorial to reading old handwriting between 1500 and 1800.

Convert old money into new equivalent values and see buying power of yesterday's money.

           

Department of Manuscripts, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB

Tel: 020 7412 9513

Email mss@bl.uk

 

Central London Reading Room, Family Records Centre, Myddleton Street, London, EC1

Tel 020 8392 5300

Email enquiry@nationalarchives.gov.uk

 

General Register Office, PO Box 2, Southport, Merseyside, PR8 2JD

or by email  certificate.services@ons.gov.uk

or  

Tel  0845 603 7788, paying by credit card.

Email certificate.services@ons.gsi.gov.uk