# List of archives in the United Kingdom

This is a list of archives in the United Kingdom. As of 2009 there were 122 national, 654 local, 328 university, 1,224 special and 61 business archives.

## UK-wide archives

* UK Data Archive, Colchester
* UK Government Web Archive
* UK Web Archive

## Archives in England

* Archaeology Data Service, York
* Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies, Dagenham
* Barnsley Archives and Local Studies
* Bath Record Office
* Battersea Dogs & Cats Home Archive, London
* BBC Archives
* BBC Sound Archive
* Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service, Bedford
* Berkshire Record Office, Reading
* Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre, London
* Birmingham City Archives
* Bishopsgate Institute, London
* Black Cultural Archives, Brixton
* Borthwick Institute for Archives, York
* BFI National Archive, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire and Gaydon, Warwickshire
* BP Archive, near Coventry (shares premises with the Modern Records Centre)
* Bristol Archives
* Bromley Historic Collections, Kent
* BT Archives, London
* Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies, Cambridge and Huntingdon
* Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, London
* Canterbury Cathedral Archives
* Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, Aylesbury
* Cheshire Record Office, Chester
* City of Westminster Archives Centre
* Cornwall Record Office, Truro
* Coventry Archives
* Cumbria Archive Service, Barrow, Carlisle, Kendal and Whitehaven
* Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock
* Devon Record Office, Exeter
* Doncaster Archives
* Dorset History Centre, Dorchester
* Downside Abbey Archives, Somerset (includes archives of the English Benedictine Congregation)
* Dudley Archives and Local History
* Durham County Record Office
* East London Theatre Archive
* East Riding of Yorkshire Archive Service
* East Sussex Record Office, Lewes
* EMI Archive Trust, Hayes
* Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR), London
* Essex Record Office, Chelmsford, Colchester, Harlow, Saffron Walden and Southend
* Family Records Centre, London
* George Padmore Institute, London
* Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucester
* Greater Manchester County Record Office
* Hackney Archives
* Hampshire Record Office
* Harrow School Archives, Harrow
* Herefordshire Record Office
* Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
* Historic England Archive, Swindon
* Hull City Archives
* Hull History Centre: Hull City Archives, Hull University Archives and Local Studies Library
* Hyman Archive, London
* Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Archives
* India Office Records at The British Library
* Islington Local History Centre, London
* Kent History and Library Centre, Maidstone
* Kingston History Centre, Kingston upon Thames
* Lambeth Archives
* Lambeth Palace Library
* Lebrecht Photo Library, St John's Wood, London
* Lichfield Record Office
* Lincolnshire Archives, Lincoln
* Liverpool Record Office
* London Metropolitan Archives
* Manchester Archives and Local Studies
* Manchester Digital Music Archive
* Media Archive for Central England
* Medway Archives, Strood
* Mills Archive, Reading
* Modern Records Centre, near Coventry
* The National Archives [of the United Kingdom], Kew
* National Co-operative Archive, Manchester
* National Jazz Archive, Loughton, Essex
* National Gas Archive, Warrington
* National Theatre Archive, London
* Newham Archives and Local Studies Library
* Norfolk Record Office, Norwich
* North Highland Archive, Wick
* North Yorkshire County Record Office, Northallerton
* Northamptonshire Record Office, Northampton
* Northumberland Record Office, Berwick-upon-Tweed and Woodhorn
* Nottinghamshire Archives, Nottingham
* Nottingham University, Manuscripts and Special Collections
* Oldham Local Studies and Archives
* Oxfordshire Record Office, Cowley near Oxford
* Parliamentary Archives, London (formerly the House of Lords Record Office)
* Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
* Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, near Leicester
* Redbridge Heritage Centre, Ilford
* Rotherham Archives and Local Studies Service
* Royal Archives, Windsor
* Royal College of Nursing Archives, Edinburgh
* Royal College of Physicians Archives, London
* Royal Mail Archive, London
* Sainsbury Archive, London
* Sandwell Community History and Archives Service
* Savoy Archives, London
* Shropshire Archives, Shrewsbury
* Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office, Stratford-upon-Avon
* Sheffield Archives
* Somerset Archives and Local Studies
* Sorabji Archive, Hereford
* Southampton Archives
* Staffordshire Record Office, Stafford
* Stoke on Trent City Archives
* Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich and Lowestoft
* Surrey History Centre, Woking
* Teesside Archives, Middlesbrough
* Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives, London
* Transport for London Corporate Archives, London
* Tyne and Wear Archives Service, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
* Walsall Local History Centre
* Waltham Forest Archives and Local Studies Library
* Warwickshire County Record Office, Warwick
* Waterways Archive, Gloucester
* West Sussex Record Office, Chichester
* West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds and Wakefield
* Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, Chippenham
* Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies
* Worcestershire Record Office
* York City Archive

## Archives in Northern Ireland

* Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

## Archives in Scotland

* Angus Archives
* Archives of the University of Glasgow
* Ayrshire Archives
* Clackmannanshire Archives
* Dundee City Archives
* Archive Services, University of Dundee
* East Dunbartonshire Archives
* Glasgow University Archive Services, Glasgow
* Highland Council Archive, Inverness
* National Archives of Scotland
* Nucleus, the Nuclear and Caithness Archives
* Tasglann nan Eilean (Hebridean Archives), Stornoway

## Archives in Wales

* A.N. Palmer Centre for Local Studies and Archives, Wrexham
* Anglesey County Record Office, Llangefni
* Caernarfon Record Office
* Carmarthenshire Archives Service
* Ceredigion Archives, Aberystwyth
* Conwy Archive Service, Llandudno
* Flintshire Record Office, Hawarden
* Denbighshire Record Office, Ruthin
* Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff
* Gwent Archives, Ebbw Vale
* Meirionnydd Record Office, Dolgellau
* National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
* Pembrokeshire Record Office
* Powys County Archives Office, Llandrindod Wells
* Roderic Bowen Library and Archive, Lampeter
* West Glamorgan Archive Service, Swansea