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	<title type="text">The National Archives blog</title>
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	<updated>2013-05-22T22:59:56Z</updated>

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			<name>Tommy Norton</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[&#8216;Winston&#8230;was complaining of a slight headache&#8217;]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/?p=9445</id>
		<updated>2013-05-22T12:57:21Z</updated>
		<published>2013-05-22T22:59:56Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Records and research" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="MI6" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Stalin" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Winston Churchill" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="wwII" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I never cease to get a sense of excitement from opening newly-accessioned files for the first time. Occasionally, documents released to The National Archives will fundamentally change our view of history, but more often, they add colour and fill in the blanks to events and personalities with which we’re already familiar. Today’s release of almost [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Keith Mitchell</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Red Devils&#8217; delight in Manchester]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/?p=8603</id>
		<updated>2013-05-22T08:33:50Z</updated>
		<published>2013-05-22T08:33:50Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Records and research" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="FIFA" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="football" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="football pools" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Man Utd" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="manchester united" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="QPR" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Queens Park Rangers" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="sport" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="world cup" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[With the end of another football season, I have to grudgingly admit the Red Devils from Manchester are the best team again. To win 20 top tier titles, compared to my team&#8217;s record, is certainly worth a mention. Football has also lost a great character and manager with the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson. So after [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Emma Jay</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Sweet, sweet music]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/?p=9411</id>
		<updated>2013-05-22T07:05:39Z</updated>
		<published>2013-05-21T09:46:44Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Behind the scenes" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Archives" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="clore" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="fellowship" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Gateshead" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="heritage" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="museums" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="training" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I’m in Gateshead and I can hear music. No, I haven’t gone doolally, though you might well wonder. The second work placement I’ve chosen to do for the Clore leadership programme is at Sage Gateshead (which was previously known as ‘The Sage Gateshead’, but is currently undergoing a brand refresh). All kinds of music are happening [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Audrey Collins</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Who needs to read fiction?]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/?p=9465</id>
		<updated>2013-05-20T08:11:39Z</updated>
		<published>2013-05-20T08:11:39Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Records and research" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Boynton" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="divorce" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Fraud" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="heiresses" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Home Office" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Marriage" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I don’t read a lot of fiction. I don’t need to, because some of the real stories I have come across in documents held in The National Archives are just as exciting and dramatic as any novel. A catalogue search for ‘fraud’ turned up an item of Home Office correspondence entitled ‘Registration of births, etc: [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Vikki Corker</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Tagging our past]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/?p=9427</id>
		<updated>2013-05-17T13:18:12Z</updated>
		<published>2013-05-17T13:18:12Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Records and research" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Technology and innovation" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Discovery" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="search" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Tagging" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="user contributions" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="user participation" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A little over a year ago, we developed a new feature in Discovery (our catalogue) that allows our users to add their own tags to our records. Tags are a way for you to add more descriptive metadata to our records to make them more findable. When we launched the feature we weren’t really sure how [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Ruth Crumey</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[New arrivals]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/?p=9339</id>
		<updated>2013-05-17T12:42:50Z</updated>
		<published>2013-05-17T08:41:37Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Behind the scenes" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Biodiversity" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Cygnets" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Eggs" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Nest" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Pond" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Swan" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Once again a pair of adult mute swans have been nesting near the lower pond in our grounds here at Kew. Derek, our groundsman, protected the nest with fencing and you can see some of his handiwork in the photo. I&#8217;m delighted to announce the arrival of the first cygnets on Tuesday. We&#8217;re watching from a safe distance [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Lee Oliver</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Cataloguing the unsung heroes of the RAF]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/?p=8561</id>
		<updated>2013-05-16T08:26:09Z</updated>
		<published>2013-05-16T08:26:09Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Records and research" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="air force" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="aircraft" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="airmen" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="dambusters" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="photographs" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="records" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Second World War" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="ww2" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="wwII" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From Banana to Vesuvius&#8230; When one thinks of the RAF in the Second World War, most people have visions of squadrons of Spitfires and Hurricanes over Kent in 1940, or the Dambusters of 617 squadron. The Operational Record Books (‘ORBs’ or more formally RAF Forms 540 and 541) of the squadrons have always been very [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Tim Callister</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The key to Information Management&#8230;]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/?p=9302</id>
		<updated>2013-05-15T07:55:59Z</updated>
		<published>2013-05-15T07:55:59Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Managing information" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="culture" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="delivery" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="information management" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="strategy" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Tolstoy" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[&#8230;winning the hearts and minds Getting information management embedded in an organisation&#8217;s culture can be pretty hard. It can seem that, no matter what good programs and processes you develop and get signed off by senior management, users just don’t care. Speaking to the business can be hard, so in this blog we’re going get through [...]]]></summary>
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		<author>
			<name>Jenni Orme</name>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Too young to cross the road]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/?p=8889</id>
		<updated>2013-05-13T08:43:31Z</updated>
		<published>2013-05-13T08:43:31Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Records and research" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Canada" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Child migration" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="family history" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="MH 19" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[&#8216;Too young to cross the road, we were deported to the other side of the world to cold, cruel institutions. We were robbed of our identities, our dignity and our families. Our parents lost their children.&#8217; International Association of Former Child Migrants and Their Families In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, around 80,000 [...]]]></summary>
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		<entry>
		<author>
			<name>Melinda Haunton</name>
					</author>
		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Corporate memory &#8211; a national treasure]]></title>
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		<id>http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/?p=8801</id>
		<updated>2013-05-10T07:56:19Z</updated>
		<published>2013-05-10T07:56:19Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Behind the scenes" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="Records and research" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="archives sector" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="business archives" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="podcasts" /><category scheme="http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk" term="understanding archives" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Did you know that The National Archives has a Business Archives Advice Manager? Alex Ritchie is the man in question, and I thought today’s blog should introduce you to some elements of his work. It’s all part of a national strategy for business archives, in which The National Archives is a partner. What’s so special [...]]]></summary>
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