The National Archives is a non-ministerial government department. Its parent department is the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is the official archive of the UK government and for England and Wales; and "guardian of some of the nation's most iconic documents, dating back more than 1,000 years." There are separate national archives for Scotland and Northern Ireland. More information...
In June 2020 the website nationalarchives.gov.uk was on the 1,001st place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 867th place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "nationalarchives.gov.uk" is the 936th most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).
The website is placed before larousse.fr and after f4wonline.com in multilingual PR ranking of the most reliable sources in Wikipedia.
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