The National Archives
The UK government's official archive and publisher of record, which operates legislation.gov.uk and Find Case Law.
OrganisationSources & confidence: High confidence
Checked 2 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Institutional identity and 2003 merger of Public Record Office and Historical Manuscripts Commission.
- The National Archives — Citing records
Institutional identity and 2003 merger of Public Record Office and Historical Manuscripts Commission.
- Wikidata entity identity and cross-references
The entity identity and its recorded authority identifiers; not an independent authority-register validation.
What this check doesn’t establish
- The legal coverage and licensing of individual services are checked in their project records.
- VIAF/ROR values were cross-checked against the Wikidata entity; the external authority registry itself was not independently inspected.
Confidence applies to the scope above, not every claim made by the underlying source. How confidence works
Operates the two services the essay points to as evidence that the engineering is already possible: legislation.gov.uk, which serves the statute book as structured XML, and Find Case Law, which does the same for judgments.
Formed in 2003 from the merger of the Public Record Office and the Historical Manuscripts Commission.
Projects
- Find Case Law
Operates · Maintains
- legislation.gov.uk
Operates · Maintains
Record history
Catalogue source: knowledge/organisations/national-archives.md
Generated by claude-code/claude-opus-5 on 2026-07-25