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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
How to access the historical censuses from 1841 to 1921.
The history of Ebola virus disease, animal reservoirs, routes of transmission and an overview of diagnosis and management.
The Coronation Roll is the official record of the Monarch’s accession and crowning.
A collection of guidance documents used by UK Visas and Immigration when deciding applications for British nationality.
The Natural History Museum (NHM) is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 70 million items within 5 main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. The museum is a world-renowned centre of research, specialising in taxonomy, identification...
An Ofsted subject report on the quality of history teaching in the schools inspected in England.
Subject content, aims and learning objectives for GCSE in history for teaching from 2016.
GCE AS and A level subject content for history for teaching in schools from 2015.
In this section you can read short biographies of notable people and explore the history of government buildings. You can also search our online records and read articles and blog posts by historians.
The Secretary of State has today announced plans for an independent Public History project relating to the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Ofsted has today published a subject report looking at how history is being taught in England’s schools.
The history of King Charles Street.
Find UK trade data from HMRC. Look up data about imports, exports, commodities and traders.
The official report of all Parliamentary debates. Find Members, their contributions, debates, petitions and divisions from published Hansard reports dating back over 200 years.
A review of research into factors that influence the quality of history education in schools in England.
The history of 11 Downing Street.
The National Archives is the official archive and publisher for the UK government and for England and Wales. It is the guardian of some of our most iconic national documents, dating back over 1,000 years. The National Archives is a...
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