Services

Paper Trail Services

Paper Trail services are free to victims and survivors of the conflict in Ireland and Britain.

Advocacy Support

Free and independent advocacy support for victims and survivors of the conflict in Ireland and Britain.

Legacy Archives

Legacy archives are documents which lie in public records and relate to social upheaval in Great Britain and Ireland over the past 50 years.

Training

Free online training for victims and survivors: (1) Introduction to legacy archives; (2) Recording lived experiences; (3) Campaign-specific workshops. Visit Paper Trail Online >>

Paper Trail Online

FREE e-learning training to victims and survivors.

Watch, listen, and learn at your own pace and in the comfort of your home. Each lesson is only a few minutes long and, because it is online, you can return to them whenever suits you.

Lessons include short videos, podcasts, workshops, and resources regarding these courses: (1) Legacy Archives: First Steps; and (2) Recording Lived Experiences (Oral History)

Visit our new e-learning platform, Paper Trail Online >>>

If you are a victim and survivor of the conflict in Ireland and Britain and have an email >>

3 Steps to FREE E-Learning

1

Complete the charity's Monitoring Form to register your interest - "For E-Learning" - and leave the confidential details required by our funders.

2

Paper Trail sets you up as a User and emails your individual login details, including username and password for the Paper Trail website.

3

You use your individual username and password for the Paper Trail website and log in here. You will then be taken back to this page and the links above.

Digital Newspaper Search

Paper Trail can help victims and survivors retrieve critical information buried in newspaper archives.

As well as storing extensive news records, Paper Trail also subscribes to a number of digital newspaper archives.

For many family researchers, the first stage of their archival research is a trip to the newspaper archives. This can be slow and laborious. We can save you time and money.

To support victims and survivors of the conflict in Ireland and Britain, Paper Trail is offering a FREE digital newspaper search and retrieval service. Fill in our Monitoring Form here >>

Social Enterprise

Paper Trail is a social enterprise, which offers specialised and targeted legacy archive research to the legal profession. We offer expert reports and discovery lists for legacy cases.

In the last 10 years, Paper Trail has discovered new archival evidence that has supported scores of civil cases and judicial reviews, over 60 legacy inquests, and 1 Supreme Court case.