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Describes how the General Register Office can help you research your family tree and family history.
Illegal working arrests and raids have reached their highest level after relentless activity by the Home Office’s Immigration Enforcement teams.
Record number of arrests and raids of illegal workers across the UK including 187 raids in Northern Ireland leading to 234 arrests.
Order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) - find GRO index numbers
This is an independent historical report commissioned by the Home Office in response to Wendy Williams’ ‘Windrush Lessons Learned Review’.
Datasets give individual offence data from 1898 and individual offence data by police force from 1990; see below for important information about future updates.
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.
Subject content, aims and learning objectives for GCSE in history for teaching from 2016.
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