Skip to Content
List of Access Keys
MyPage (not signed in)
Search The National Archives
Enter search terms
Advanced search
Skip to content
Home page
A to Z index
Search
Visit us
Help
Complaints procedure
Terms of use
Contact us
Access key details
About us
Who we are
How we are run
News
Get involved
Visit us
Freedom of information
Research and learning
Research guidance
Education
Online exhibitions
Family history
Military history
House history
Local history
Security history
Maps
Paid research
Search the archives
The Catalogue
Access to Archives
Archive contact details (ARCHON)
Cabinet papers
Census records
DocumentsOnline
National Register of Archives
Passenger lists
Your Archives
Other search tools
Services for professionals
Records management
Electronic records management
Archives Sector Development
Conservation and preservation
Public sector information
Policy and legislation
Assessments
GKIM Network
Publications
Contacts
Shop online
Bookshop
Ancestors magazine
DocumentsOnline
Order copies of documents
Image library
You are here:
Home
>
News from The National Archives
>
Document releases
> Releases in 2003
Home
News from The National Archives
Document releases
:
Releases in 2009
:
Releases in 2008
:
Releases in 2007
:
Releases in 2006
:
Releases in 2005
:
Releases in 2004
:
Releases in 2003
:
Archived releases
:
Releases in 2003
Date
Title of release
14 November
Diana Mosley, Cecil Day-Lewis and German wartime plans to wage a bombing campaign using exploding cans of processed peas, all feature in this Security Service (MI5) release.
16 October
World War Two HM Customs employing female searchers, and the security of British codes and ciphers are included.
25 September
The 1926 General Strike, President Richard Nixon's 1969 European Tour, reports on suspected malnutrition in Britain during the Second World War, and more.
22 August
Former Prime Minister Lord Avon (Sir Anthony Eden), Correspondence from Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1941 Foreign Office files, and more.
24 July
George Orwell's 1949 list of alleged Communist sympathisers, and files from 1941 on General de Gaulle and on the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, are included in this release.
22 May
Atom bomb spy Klaus Fuchs, writers Compton MacKenzie and Arthur Koestler, and more.
12 May
Newly released Special Operations Executive (SOE) files.
28 April
Former dressmaker to the Queen Hardy Amies's personnel file, and correspondence between Prime Minister Edward Heath and US President Richard Nixon about Vietnam, are included in this release.
06 March
England football captain Bobby Moore's arrest in Colombia, personal files of Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents, and more.
30 January
King Edward VIII's 1936 abdication. Records include Cabinet minutes, letters from the King, and papers about Mrs Simpson.
02 January
The abolition of the death penalty, conditions in Spandau Prison and an assassination attempt on Edward VIII, all feature in this release.
01 January
Records relating to the main news stories of 1972, including stories on Northern Ireland that were featured in BBC Northern Ireland's TV programme, Cabinet Confidential.