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How Business e-services customers can request historical copies through the portal.
Registrations and notices about mines and minerals, chancel repairs and manorial rights.
Application form HC1 to apply for copies of historical edition(s) of the register or title plan held in electronic form.
A collection of guidance documents used by UK Visas and Immigration when deciding applications for British nationality.
Order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) - find GRO index numbers
Key changes made to the statistical series since 2012.
Ofsted has today published a subject report looking at how history is being taught in England’s schools.
Registered providers and unregistered bodies must notify us if a relevant event is going to happen that could lead to grant recovery.
Immigration staff guidance providing historical background information on nationality and help with assessing citizenship claims.
The Secretary of State has today announced plans for an independent Public History project relating to the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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.
How to notify Homes England of events that could lead to grant recovery or changes that may affect the legal ownership of grant-funded homes.
Historical electricity data: 1920 to 2022
Historical coal data: coal production, availability and consumption 1853 to 2022
Historical LHA rates for reference.
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...
Find out if your ivory item may qualify for the pre-1918 outstandingly high artistic, cultural or historical value exemption, how to apply and what to do if it is refused or revoked.
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