CultureParliamentary records moved to National Archives include law behind Bonfire Night

A five-year project transferring four million records from the UK parliament’s archives to the National Archives at Kew is complete, and the documents are available for free public viewing. The collection includes the 1605 Thanksgiving Act, passed after Guy Fawkes’s failed plot, and the archives’ longest act.

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