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Firepower produced a guide for family history researchers called "Is There A Gunner In Your Family Tree?" The sixteen page guide outlined how the Museum's extensive archives could help researchers. It also detailed the other main UK sources and archives to explore when researching army service.
*''The History of the Royal Artillery, Crimean period'' by Colonel Julian RJ Jocelyn (1911)
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=== Firepower, The Royal Artillery Museum, now closed===
Firepower Museum at Woolwich closed on 8 July 2016. It had a Library and Archive with extensive holdings including battery records. A research service was available. Firepower produced a guide for family history researchers called "Is There A Gunner In Your Family Tree?" The sixteen page guide outlined how the Museum's extensive archives could help researchers. It also detailed the other main UK sources and archives to explore when researching army service.
The Salisbury Plain Heritage Centre will take over as The Home of the Royal Artillery Collection
Prior to Firepower closing it was advised there would be “controlled access” to the archive and library, prior to a move to Larhhill on Salisbury Plain, perhaps in 2020.<ref> dbf. [http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/60315-firepower-is-closing/?p=697189 FirePower is closing] ''WW2Talk Forum'' 27 January 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2016</ref> However currently (27 July 2016) the new website advises "the Royal Artillery Museums Board has decided to suspend its ability to answer queries on service records and other Regimental and Battery histories", and "the collection will not be open to the public while in storage". However, see next section.
====10% of Library and Archive now at Larkhill====
Some 10% of the RA Museum’s Library and Archive has been settled in temporary accommodation at Larkhill Army Base, about 10 miles (16 km) north of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Booking up to a month in advance is advised because the archive is now on an Army base and passes for cars and people need to be generated. There will be a daily access fee, and a daily fee for photography.<ref>
Published histories in the catalogue include:
*''The History of the Royal and Indian Artillery in the Mutiny of 1857'' by Julian RJ Jocelyn (1915).
*''The History of the Royal Artillery : from the Indian Mutiny to the Great War'' by Sir Charles Callwell and Sir John Headlam (1931, 1940)
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyroyalreg00goog#page/n10/mode/2up ''History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery Vol II''] by Major Francis Duncan 1873 Archive.org. Covers the period 1783 up until the Battle of Waterloo 1815.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyroyalreg00himegoog#page/n9/mode/1up ''History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery 1815-1853''] by Henry W.L. Hime 1908 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284332 ''The History of the Royal Artillery (Crimean Period)''] by Colonel Julian R J Jocelyn 1911 Archive.org, Digital Library Of India Collection.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/listofficersroy01askwgoog#page/n7/mode/1up ''List of Officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery from the Year 1716 to 1899''] by John Kane, William Harrison Askwith, 4th edition, 1900 Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=-lcBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Remarks on the Organization of the British Royal Artillery''] by Charles James B. Riddell 1852 Google Books
