Archives at Night: Cabinet of Curiosities

Eleven million documents dating back 1,000 years are held on 100 miles of shelving – which grows by at least a mile each year – at The National Achieves. Everything from Shakespeare’s Will to Guy Fawkes’ signed confession is stored here, and for one night only they are opening up their weird and wonderful Edwardian Cabinet of Curiosities. Delve into their records and explore the rise of spiritualists in the early 20^th Century, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s thoughts on mediums, Edwardian practices for dealing with death, coffin designs and funerary monuments, to the vast out of town cemeteries – cities of the dead. Why not travel back even further in time to learn about witch trials and the history of sorcery. Book here.