Applications for The National Archives’ student placements are currently open, with six projects available within various departments at The National Archives.
All student placements at The National Archives enable students to:
- Gain industry-specific knowledge and skills for working in a variety of roles across the research, government, cultural and heritage sectors.
- Build professional connections across the organisation and an understanding of the variety of roles at The National Archives.
- Create an output which showcases the work undertaken as part of their placement at The National Archives and which demonstrates the knowledge and skills the student has developed and applied during their time on the placement.
Placements are offered on a full- or part-time basis. Placements are between one and three months in length, but will all be a maximum of 20 working days (e.g. one month full-time or two-to-three months part-time).
Eligibility
Currently, our student placements are only open to master’s and doctoral students with the right to work in the UK, and those who are fully funded and whose funding includes a specific allowance for placements.
Some of our student placements projects are open to both master’s and doctoral students, whilst others are open to only master’s students or only doctoral students. Please refer to the information provided for specific projects to check your eligibility.
How to apply
To apply for any of our student placement projects, please read about the projects below and complete our Expression of Interest (EoI) form by the deadline of your chosen project.
You may apply for a maximum of two projects, but please ensure you complete a separate EoI form for each.
Explore our student placements
Creating case studies using the UK Government Web Archive – Open call closing once filled
Exploring stories of women in First World War medical case sheets – deadline 12th April 2026
Student placements in Conservation and Heritage Science within Collection Care – Open call closing once filled
Exploring the Prize Papers, a global early modern archive – deadline 29th May 2026
The ingenuity of cardboard – deadline 17th April 2026
Parliament for the people: Private acts – deadline 1st May 2026