After 250 years, UK finds lost US Declaration of Independence copy
Corroborated by 5 sources from 5 publishers
TL;DR
UK finds lost US Declaration of Independence copy after 250 years For Michael Scurr, a volunteer at the National Archives in Kew, west London, it was “just a boring old Thursday morning” when he sat down in late May to catalogue a collection of documents from the British national collection that had never previously been recorded in detail.
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The New York Times (World)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/world/europe/declaration-independence-copy-uk-archive.html
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Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/content/4fd21282-82f3-443c-9270-c1efb401fe97
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The Guardian (World)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/03/vanishingly-rare-copy-us-declaration-independence-volunteer-uk-archives
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BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrkl104ly5o?at_campaign=rss&at_medium=RSS
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BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrkl104ly5o?at_campaign=rss&at_medium=RSS
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CBS News World
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vanishingly-rare-copy-of-the-declaration-of-independence-found-in-u-k-by-volunteer