Accredited Archives

The Archive Service Accreditation is the UK wide standard scheme for archive services. Established in 2013 and operated by the National Archives, the scheme is open to any archive service that meets the eligibility criteria. 

The standard defines good practice and identifies agreed standards, thereby encouraging and supporting development. It replaces The National Archives' Standard for Record Repositories and its self assessment programme for local authority archives in England and Wales. The scheme offers a badge of external recognition and endorsement of their service.

Archive Service Accreditation is central to the Archives for the 21st Century priority to develop more effective services and increase sustainability within the sector.

The standard defines good practice and identifies agreed standards, thereby encouraging and supporting development. The standard is aligned with other relevant quality assurance schemes, improvement tools and data gathering processes.

Archive Service Accreditation:

  • is a UK wide quality standard which offers a benchmark for gauging performance, recognising achievement and driving improvement with the archives sector
  • raises the profile of archive services by building confidence and credibility both within the parent organisations and externally, through increased awareness and understanding
  • helps archive services adapt and respond to user needs and interests, and develop their workforce
  • encourages partnership working within and between organisations, by helping archive services to examine how best to deliver their services
  • provides a robust framework for forward planning to improve procedures and policy and reduce organisational risk
  • is a badge of external recognition which demonstrates quality services
  • encourages professionalism in the archives sector

It is aimed at organisations that hold archive collections, whatever their constitution, and covers both private and public sector archives. It enables archive services to review and develop their policies, plans and procedures against a UK wide standard which has been developed by the archives sector, identifying strengths of the archive service and providing a framework to improve areas of weakness.

Over 20 archives have already been accredited and more are going through the process to be assessed each year. You can use the accreditation to filter a search by selecting it in the Accreditations section of the Search List Filters.

 

Please see the full list of Accreditation Archives Below:

Norfolk Record Office

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Libraries / Archives
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The Norfolk Record Office holds millions of documents, filling almost 10 miles of shelves. They have been created by a variety of organizations and people, past and present, range in date from the eleventh century to the twenty-first and relate to every town and parish in Norfolk. Among them are royal charters, title deeds, manorial court rolls, registers, accounts, minute books, correspondence, diaries, maps, architectural and other drawings, photographs, music, music and oral histories.

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Institute of Education Archives

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Libraries / Archives
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The Newsam Library and Archives holds extensive collections of current and historical materials on education and related areas of social science.

In addition to supporting the work of staff and students at the UCL Institute of Education, it welcomes enquiries from all scholars, researchers, and others in the community with an interest in education.

It offers generous study space, and open access to many of its collections. The library catalogue is available to all users, and can be viewed remotely over the internet.

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Lancashire Archives

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Libraries / Archives
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Lancashire Archives collects unique, historic records that reflect Lancashire and Lancashire life - past and present. These cover church registers, historic images of Lancashire, the North West Sound Archive, police records and old maps of the region.

Arrangements may be made for groups to visit Lancashire Archives

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Lincolnshire Archives

Enriching our future by preserving our past
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Libraries / Archives
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Lincolnshire Archives was established as a county service in 1948 with the bringing together of the records collected by the Lindsey, Kesteven and Holland County Councils, and the Lincoln Diocesan Record Office. The Archives service was known as the Lincolnshire Archives Committee.

The service is now part of Lincolnshire County Council’s Economy & Culture department and is based in modern offices in St Rumbold Street, Lincoln.

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Gloucestershire Archives

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Libraries / Archives
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We gather, keep and share historic archive collections relating to Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire - and local and family history resources relating to Gloucestershire.

The archives are kept at our main Alvin Street site in Gloucester and you can use them in our public research room.

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