Archives and local history

Search our online catalogue, LANCAT, and explore other guides to archive collections.

Information for planning your visit to Lancashire Archives for research, to see our exhibitions or attend an event.

Find out how we can help if you are unable to visit the office in person or would like more help with your research.

We can provide copies of items in our collections as well as creating images of your own documents.

We can offer schools free resources and on site learning opportunities.

Find out how you can help Lancashire Archives and Local History preserve the history and tell the story of nearly a thousand years of Lancashire.

Our archives magazine celebrates the rich and diverse history of Lancashire. It is full of stories about the people, places and events that shaped the county.

A series of conversations about interesting items from the collections at Lancashire Archives.

The Friends of Lancashire Archives promote, support, and assist our work.

Bringing together thousands of people in East Lancashire, to make historic photographs collections more accessible, inclusive and sustainable.

This Lancashire Archives and Local History project is bringing together a fan-led Burnley Football Club Archive at Burnley Library.

Strategies, policies, plans and reports for Lancashire's libraries and archives.