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NCAP Legacy Website Retired

As part of our ongoing commitment to cybersecurity, we retired the legacy ncap.org.uk website on 24 June 2025. Going forward our new platform – ncap.org – will be the gateway...

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Celebrating our Volunteers this Volunteers’ Week!

This Volunteers’ Week, we are highlighting the fantastic contribution our volunteers make to the National Collection of Aerial Photography’s mission to preserve and make accessible the 30 million aerial photographic...

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Operation Dynamo - Evacuating Dunkirk

Images held by the National Collection of Aerial Photography show key locations in the Allied pocket around Dunkirk, between 26 May and 4 June 1940, from where 85 years ago...

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Cold War Scotland

From 16-23 May 2025, The Cold War Network is bringing together historic sites across the UK for the first-ever Cold War National Heritage Week - a nationwide event dedicated to...

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