Paper Trail - Legacy Archive Research

Paper Trail offers highly specialised research of conflict-related archives to the legal profession, the media and academia throughout Great Britain and Ireland. We also work closely with human rights and victims’ groups that represent families affected by the conflict. Paper Trail is a charity that offers advocacy support to victims and survivors of the conflict in the north of Ireland. We support families liaise with statutory bodies dealing with the legacy of the past and are funded by the European Union’s PEACE IV Programme which is managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) and Victims and Survivors Service. Paper Trail is also a social enterprise which has been created specifically to help ordinary families access official information buried in archives for decades. All of the profits we generate are reinvested to allow us to help other families in their pursuit of truth. Services Paper Trail offers unique legacy archive research, consultancy and training services. We work closely with lawyers and representatives of families affected by the conflict to discover official documents vital to individual cases. Following the Paper Trail can: - Allow you to make better use of your resources and time - Inform key aspects of your work and decision-making - Help you find invaluable information for the families who need it most How we can help Targeted: Public record research in Belfast, London and Dublin Freedom of Information requests and complaints Newspaper archive and secondary source research Cross-referencing of records and sources Liaison with: Families Human rights and victims groups Consultation on: Key legacy archives Context and content of documentation Thematic issues such as Internment, Vigilantism, Information Policy The preparation of reports and articles