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*Please check TNA's [httphttps://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/visit%5Cdefault.htm -us/ "Visit Us"] webpage for further information, including [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/visit-us/researching-here/do-i-need-a-readers-ticket/ Do I need a reader’s ticket?]. The procedure also includes completing a short online document handling information tutorial, with test questions, similar to the information in [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/visit-us/researching-here/handling-documents/ "Handling documents"]. Some of the more popular records are available on microfilm in the reading rooms (Read the description of the records you are interested in to find out whether this applies). Readers' tickets are only required if you want to look at original documents.*:Car parking charges have now been introduced, see "Visit [https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/visit-us"/"Opening times", scroll down how-to Car Park-find-us/"Find out more" for details. How to find us] indicates that visitor car park charges apply but ‘Blue Badge’ holders will are able to continue to be able to park without charge, in designated parking bays. In addition, from 25 October 2021 the National Archives is located within the ULEZ (Ultra Low Emission Zone), where a charge applies for vehicles which do not meet the required standard.*Some documents may be photographed – see "Visit us"/"What’s on"/"While you’re Researching here"/"Guidance for visitors", scroll to "What to bring can I take into the reading rooms?"for details of permitted devices. For better photographic images, a researcher recommended selecting a table by the windows, for the light provided – these tables also contain camera stands.<ref>Mike L. [http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/national-archives-kew-tips.11433/page-24#post-659486 National Archives - Kew Tips?] ''WW2Talk Forum'' 11 February 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2016.</ref>. All seats now have a camera stand "however, the new ones are rather flimsy so that if you have an old fashioned or weighty camera it would be advisable to ask for one of the older more solid camera stands".<ref>bootneck. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/290100-books-memoirs-about-the-base-area-lines-of-communication-troops/?do=findComment&comment=3021618 Books / Memoirs about the Base Area & Lines Of Communication troops] ''Great War Forum'' 14 June 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2021.</ref>

*The National Archives guide [httphttps://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/recordshelp-with-your-research/paying-for-research/paid_research.htm Paying for research] includes , Click on the link "Independent researchers" to access a list of independent researchers.

**[httphttps://tna.koha-ptfs.euco.uk/cgi-bin/koha/ opac-main.pl The Catalogue for the Library at the National Archives]. Includes an A-Z list of electronic journals and databases available such as "House of Commons Parliamentary Papers" (HCPP), also known as UK Parliamentary Papers.