UK National Archives Discovery

Search the UK National Archives' Discovery catalogue; find Chelsea pensioners' papers in WO 97.

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Search the UK National Archives' Discovery catalogue; find Chelsea pensioners' papers in WO 97.

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What this server can do and what it asks for, from its tool list, install config and code. Checked Nov 1, 2026.

Tools: 5 read · 0 write · 0 deleteRead-only
Secrets: None asked for
Install scripts: None found
Runs as: Python package

Tools by what they do 5

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browse
budget_status
find_soldier
get_record
search_records

Secrets and settings it asks for

Other settings (environment variables or headers).

TNA_DISCOVERY_CONTACT
TNA_DISCOVERY_DAILY_BUDGET
TNA_DISCOVERY_MIN_INTERVAL
TNA_DISCOVERY_STATE_DIR
TNA_DISCOVERY_TIMEOUT

Network hosts it talks to 2

discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk · found in code
github.com · found in code

Files it touches

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~/.local/state/tna-discovery-mcp

Tools (5)

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browse
List the records one level below a series, sub-series or piece, in catalogue order. Walks down department, series, sub-series, piece, item. WO 97's pieces to 1854 each hold one regiment's men, alphabetically; WO 12 lists regiments, then a piece per year. For one regiment in one year, search_records with `series` is quicker. No children means a piece or item with nothing described below it, or an unknown id.
budget_status
Report today's requests against the daily budget, and the last error. No network call.
find_soldier
Find a soldier's discharge papers in WO 97 (Chelsea pensioners, 1760-1854), parsed. Searches the name in WO 97 and keeps the men whose names, discharge year, regiment and birthplace fit, each with his TNA reference, regiments, birthplace, discharge age and an estimated birth year. Only men discharged to a pension are here. Spellings vary (HARGRAVES alias HARGREAVES): try variants and a trailing *. Same name is not same man.
get_record
Read one catalogue description in full, with its hierarchy and how to cite it. A reference must be exact and costs one more request than an id. For a WO 97 item (soldiers' discharge papers, 1760-1854) `soldier` parses the description into name, birthplace, county, regiments, discharge age and year, service years and an estimated birth year, keeping `original`. `images` says where the record itself can be read: this is a finding aid.
search_records
Search Discovery's catalogue descriptions: TNA's records and 2,500 other archives'. Dates select records whose covering dates overlap the range. Each hit has its id (for get_record), reference, description, covering dates, holding archive, `digitised` (TNA holds an image) and the record's page. A WO 97 item also carries `soldier`, its description parsed. Hits are finding aids, not records; a zero covers only what was searched.

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Weekly downloads: 39
Last commit: Oct 11, 2026 (22 days ago)
Last release: Oct 11, 2026 (22 days ago)
Last package publish: Oct 11, 2026 (22 days ago)

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Details

Registry name: io.github.ianderso/tna-discovery-mcp
Version: 0.1.0
Auth: No auth
Packages: pypi tna-discovery-mcp
License: MIT
Repository: github.com/ianderso/tna-discovery-mcp
First seen: Oct 24, 2026
Last checked: Oct 24, 2026
Source: Official MCP Registry github-graphql

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UK National Archives Discovery MCP server. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/connectors/ianderso-tna-discovery-mcp (last updated 2026-10-24)