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We also host a full programme of online events, which can be enjoyed from the comfort of home. Plus, you can explore our family and children’s events.
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Behind the Scenes Tours (SOLD OUT)
Our behind the scenes tours from July to September are sold out. We will be releasing the dates for tours from October to December later in the year. Please continue to visit this page for updates.
We have a small number of dates available for group tours. Please email [email protected] for more information and to book.
June 2025
Secrets and Spies: An evening with Mick Herron
- Wednesday 11 June, 19:00 to 21:00
Mick Herron’s Slough House series has established him as one of today’s top spy novelists. Featuring an unlikely team of disgraced MI5 agents led by the irascible Jackson Lamb, the books have reached Number One on the Sunday Times Bestseller lists, as well as achieving critical success, being awarded two Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Daggers and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award.
Join Mick Herron and Miranda Carter as they discuss fictional spies, real-life espionage, and the ways in which these two worlds sometimes meet.
This in-conversation event will take place at The National Archives in Kew. The event will last approximately one hour. A pop up bar will be open from 18.45, serving drinks before the event.
This event is currently sold out. To join our waitlist, visit the link below.
Archives Fest
- Sunday 15 June, 11:00 to 16:00
The National Archives in Kew is the official archive of the UK government, England and Wales. Discover our incredible collection through a jam-packed day of talks, tours, workshops and lots more!
Find out more and book tickets on Eventbrite
British Sign Language tour – MI5: Official Secrets (SOLD OUT)
- Saturday 21 June, 11:00 to 12:00
Join us for a British Sign Language (BSL) led tour of our new exhibition ‘MI5: Official Secrets’.
Step inside the hidden world of MI5 and explore the extraordinary stories behind the security of a nation.
Our BSL guide, John Wilson, will be delivering a BSL tour at 11:00 on Saturday, June 21st, 2024. The tour is open to all British Sign Language users.
This event is sold out.
Pipe Roll Society Annual Lecture: Magna Carta and its Medieval Legacy
- Tuesday 24 June, 17:00 – 18:00
2025 sees the 800th anniversary of the issue, by King Henry III, of what would become the definitive text of Magna Carta. The Great Charter enshrined a wide range of legal, social and governmental principles, and attempted better to regulate relationships between the monarch, the crown, the church and the people. The text and its interpretation have long been fought over, as has its legacy.
Join the Pipe Roll Society for a panel discussion between four world experts on kingship, government and the law in the Middle Ages. They will explore the context for Magna Carta, the reasons behind its revisions, its impact on contemporary politics and society, including on the development of parliament, and its centuries-long legacy.
This event takes place at The National Archives in Kew and is in-person only. It will not be streamed or recorded. The event will last approximately one hour, followed by an opportunity to view original records from The National Archives’ collection.
The Pipe Roll Society is a charity which aims to increase public knowledge of medieval history by the publication of the Pipe Rolls and the associated records of medieval English government, and of other manuscripts of national importance prior to the year 1350.
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