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Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE

Archives for London will be at WDYTYA? Live, the biggest family history show in the world. Come and see us between 24-26 February 2012 at Olympia.

For more details, see our news page here


AfL Conference 2011 – Learning in London

Following our annual conference in October, you can now find a selection of papers from the event (and earlier conferences too!) in our Members Area.  For more information on the 2011 conference see the press release and to see the full programme, speaker biographies and abstracts,  click the link above or visit our conference page,


AfL Healthcheck

The AfL archives healthcheck has been designed to help archive services identify key information and opportunities in light of current economic and political environment. It will also inform AfL’s advocacy activities.

Click here to complete the healthcheck either online or on paper.


London’s Olympic history comes to life

New website brings to life archives of rare photographs, newspaper articles, documents and ephemera of London’s Olympic past Over 1,700 images of London’s previous Olympic Games in 1908 and 1948, together with British Olympians and Paralympians throughout history, can be seen for the first time on a new website www.winningendeavours.org.

The website includes many unseen images that have been taken from archival documents, newspapers, journals and ephemera currently in the care of the British Library, London Metropolitan Archives and 23 other archival repositories in London and the South East of England.

For more, see the Press Release


Next Seminar

2 February 2012; Maps of London

Speaker – Peter Barber, British Library

Venue – LMA