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Researchers might like to see this. Why are TNA still denying researchers bringing in their own note books?. I have also wasted about 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours on each visit because they insisted on closing at 3.30 pm. Do TNA really want researchers to visit or are they trying to stop researchers, my view is the latter. The totally ridiculous quarantine rules seem to be changing but the Government has not seen fit to tell us until now!.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/abo ... us-update/

Now that the Prime Minister has announced that it is planned for COVID -19 restrictions to be lifted on 19 July (in particular on wearing masks and social distancing) what will TNA do with the main leg of them stopping researchers researching. Will they comply or will they continue to block researchers?. If they comply it means that about SIX times the number of researchers can be 'allowed' to research and why should we have to book a week or more in advance.

Thunder,
Me thinks you do protest too much
Whilst TNA staff pander to the fortunate few who can personally visit, they are taking staff away from the efforts to get their archives on-line, which benefits those of us too far away to visit!
Be thankful you are at least close enough to visit! Most of us aren’t

TNA do not get many archives put online, it is a very small amount (don't believe what they say on their catalogue as they count what was one document into up to 200 items and count it as 200). Most of the documents are not copyable and for example they sell copies of their records for example to ancestry who thinks the Cambridgeshire Asylum was in Berwickshire!. TNA do not pander to local researchers, they have people who travel from around the world to TNA and TNA is there to make the records available (and that has been since 1838) to the public and are obsessed with born-digital records. For example would people be happy if you were told only 10 people were allowed into the local library.