Archives
Contact information
- Tel: 020 8359 3960
- Email: library.archives@barnet.gov.uk
This service will shortly move premises. It will close on the 14 August 2010 and will re-open at Hendon library on Monday 8 November 2010. We apologise for any inconvenience experienced during this period.
Ancestry web resources
Ancestry, the geneological website is now available at the Local Studies Centre and all Barnet Libraries with access to:
- index to births, deaths and marriages
- London/ Middlesex parish registers
- family history material.
Historic images of Barnet
Take a visual tour of the borough from a selection of views from the Archive collection.
Enter Barnet Image Bank to search the collection.
Local Studies Centre
The Local Studies Centre collects historical documents relating to the Borough of Barnet going back many centuries.
There are materials dating back to the 17th century providing a fascinating record of the community and its development. The records are made freely available to the public to examine at the centre. Details of the collections can be found here
Pocket Histories are short histories of your local area. They now cover every corner of the borough and include information about changes to each area, buildings and famous people. The Pocket Histories are the history of the place where you live.
New publication: Reminiscences of work and apprenticeships
Delve into a fascinating mix of experiences related by Friern Barnet residents on leaving school and starting work. This oral history project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund captures the mood of change post Second World War and provides an insight into the opportunities and choices available to their generation. We are fortunate that many people were long-term Barnet residents, photographs illustrating their association with the borough. The recordings bring us unique personal views on employment at a local level.
Reminiscences of work and apprenticeships 
(5.15 MB)
Barnet African-Caribbean reminiscences
As part of the Local Studies Centre's role in recording information about the area that may be of interest to future researchers, a reminisence project carried out interviews with residents (PDF:263KB) talking about settling in Barnet during the 1950s and 60s.
Barnet Local Studies Collections Policy
- Barnet Local Studies Collections Policy (PDF:155 KB)
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