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Statistics

  • 2000+
    institutions in England make their archives publicly available (ARCHON)
  • 96%
    of archive users rate the service good or very good (PSQG 2011)
  • 120km
    archives held by UK universities (The National Archives, 2008)
  • 33m
    visits to local authority archive websites per year (CIPFA)