Online Bookshop

Our online bookshop stocks a full range of publications from The National Archives as well as carefully selected stock from other publishers.

Enjoy free postage & packing for deliveries within the UK from now until 11 January 2009.
There are lots of money-saving offers currently available, with more to follow in the run-up to Christmas.

Book of the month

Princes of Wales

Princes of Wales

by David Loades

Princes of Wales explores the stories of intriguingly diverse royal heirs, from the charismatic Black Prince and the dissolute Prince Hal to the ill-fated Arthur and the flamboyant Prince Regent – as well as the colourful characters of the 20th century.

£14.99
(RRP: £18.00)

You save: £3.01
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Week’s bestseller

£10.49
(RRP: £12.99)
Add First World War Army Service Records to basket

First World War Army Service Records

by William Spencer

The National Archives’ celebrated First World War holdings include personal files of officers and other ranks, campaign medals, gallantry and meritorious service awards, courts martial and casualty lists.

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£9.99
Add Family and Local History Handbook 11th Edition to basket

Family and Local History Handbook 11th Edition

by Robert Blatchford and Elizabeth Blatchford (Editors)

One of Britain’s most popular family history books. Few books have fallen into the must-have category. Every industry benefits from a handbook that can act as the catalyst for everyone working within that sector. For the genealogy industry, The Family and Local History Handbook is that book.


£12.99
Add Cromwell

Cromwell's Head

by Jonathan Fitzgibbons

Exhumed from his vault in Westminster Abbey, the former Lord Protector was hung with other dead regicides on Tyburn’s ‘Triple Tree’ before being decapitated – launching his head upon three centuries of extraordinary adventures.

Additional information

Books which are published by The National Archives are now dispatched by our distributor: Grantham Book Services.

Books from other publishers are sent out from our Bookshop at The National Archives, Kew.

You may therefore receive your order in two parcels, however there will only be one charge for postage. View our current postage rates.

Should you have any query regarding your internet order please contact us on: 020 8392 5342 or email bookshop@nationalarchives.gov.ukMail to bookshop


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