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The National Archives is an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice of the United Kingdom. It is "the UK government's official archive, containing 1,000 years of history". There are separate national archives in some of the devolved parts of the United Kingdom: the National Archives of Scotland holds government and private documents relating to Scotland and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland holds records for Northern Ireland.
TNA was formerly four separate organisations: the Public Record Office, the Historical Manuscripts Commission, the Office of Public Sector Information and Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
It is institutional policy to include the definite article, with an initial capital letter, in its name but this practice is rarely followed in the non-specialist media.
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