
‘photograph’ AND type of photograph such as ‘aerial’.‘photograph’ AND name such as ‘ Alfred Tennyson’.‘photograph’ AND key term such as ‘plantation’.To find them search our catalogue by keyword(s), using the following kinds of combinations: Several million photographs are either wholly or partly described in our catalogue. 3.2 Use our catalogue to search the whole collection by keywords
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If you don’t find what you are looking for, you can search the full collection in our catalogue (see 3.2). Archived film of government origin is held at the British Film Institute.Ĭharles Darwin, 1882 (catalogue reference COPY 1/57/225). The National Archives does not hold any cinematographic film. To see anything that is not available from the Image Library you will need either to visit us or pay for copies to be sent to you. The Image Library is the easiest way to get a sense of the breadth and depth of what we hold but most of our photographs are not available to view online. You can view and purchase high-quality copies of many thousands of our photographs through our Image Library. This guide will help you to find individual photographs among our vast holdings, some of them in discrete collections but many scattered more haphazardly among the documents of the scores of central government departments, past and present, that commissioned and collected them. Running into millions of individual items, these photographs have been amassed during the working lives of central government departments and cover the historical time-span of the medium itself. The National Archives holds one of the largest and most significant collections of photographs in the United Kingdom.

Appendix 2: Photographic publications held in our library.
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Alternatively, use our Find an archive tool to locate a local archive. You can try a search of our catalogue with the name of a school and restrict your search results to ‘Other archives’ using the filters. The National Archives’ catalogue contains details of collections held at local archives around the UK, along with contact details for each archive.

Schools hold their own records but for schools that no longer exist you should contact the local county archive, library or record office, or the archives of the charities who ran the school, to see if the records have been deposited there.
