英国国家档案馆位于伦敦泰晤士河南岸，档案馆建筑占地13英亩。原来的档案馆大楼开放于1977年，总面积3.3万平方米，设计师约翰·塞西尔·克莱弗林（john cecil clavering）于1977年凭借此作品获得"richmond society award"奖。扩建后的新建筑开放于1995年，总面积3.2万平方米，由德尔莫特·奥雷利（dermot o'reilly）设计。 档案馆建筑包括仓库（面积2.87万平方米）、办公区（8602平方米）、地下室和公共区（共2.08万平方米）、特别存储区及实验室（共7038平方米）。公共阅览室、商店、餐厅位于原建筑中；各种会议设施都设在扩建后的大楼中。
Biographical dictionaries may seem outdated, yet they remain indispensable sources of reliable knowledge that can verify the results of Internet search engines. The resources of the State Archives, including the National Archives in Krakow, enable the retrieval and verification of information found in biographical entries. The primary sources are civil status records (parish records of baptism, marriages, and deaths), supplemented by documentation kept by the Health Office of the City of Krakow. Useful for establishing connections to Krakow are the city’s population censuses (1847–1921, conducted every 10 years) and those of Podgórze (1857–1910, which became part of Krakow in 1915), as well as printed lists of officials and Krakow’s address books. Additional helpful resources include the incomplete documentation related to the population register during the interwar period, court inheritance and guardianship records, records from secondary schools, and personnel files of employees of offices, institutions, and companies which employed individuals with higher education. An unexpected source of information on the beginnings of scientific activity in Galicia may be the estate archives, which contain, among other things, memoirs and translations from foreign languages.
This article explores ways of understanding archival material through collection-based research. Using War Office records held in the UK's National Archives, particularly those relating to Army officers in the period 1790-1820, it provides a methodological framework through worked examples that draws upon documentary analysis and archival material culture, as well as offering a new approach of archival experimental archaeology to reconstruct processes and practices that led to the creation of records. This research shows that the history of documents is critical - though often under appreciated - to historical knowledge. Our approach stresses the importance of examining historically the creation, form, and storage of archival material. Additionally, it demonstrates the value of archivists and historians reconnecting for good practice and research insights and agendas.
