UK's National Archives to offer free access to digitised collections

From the UK's National Archives (https://nationalarchives.gov.uk) based at Kew, England, via Twitter (@UKNatArchives):

We’re pleased to confirm that we will be giving everyone free access to our digitised collections very soon, but it’s taking our amazing digital team a bit of time to make it happen. (1/2)

They’re facing similar challenges to the rest of the world with regard to connecting to our various technical systems while working from home, and many of them are also juggling childcare duties. Stay tuned for an update soon! (2/2)

Followed by:

Wow - what a response! Just to clarify, we’re referring to digitised collections that are available on our website (and usually chargeable) – at this stage, this doesn’t extend to our collections on other sites.

Watch this space...!

UPDATE, 2 APR 2020: From TNA -

We’re pleased to announce that soon we will be providing free access to digitised collections that are available on our website (and usually chargeable) for as long as we are closed to the public. We’ll publish more details when this goes live.

Chris

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