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Gov.UK Archive Check

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What this is

Gov.UK Archive Check installs a one-click bookmarklet: a bookmark that runs a tiny script. While you're reading any web page, click it and a new tab lists every archived snapshot of that page in a public web archive. Useful when a gov.uk guidance page, Home Office policy or country-information note has changed and you need the version that applied on a given date.

Video walkthrough

Video not loading (for example, if you are offline)? Watch it on YouTube.

How to use it

  1. On the Install tab, drag the button onto your bookmarks toolbar (once).
  2. Browse to any page: e.g. a Home Office guidance page.
  3. Click the bookmark: a new tab lists every captured snapshot, by date.

The tabs

Install

The drag-to-install button, step-by-step instructions, and a manual copy-paste fallback.

Config

Choose which archive the bookmarklet queries: the UK Government Web Archive (The National Archives) or the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The button + snippet on the Install tab update to match.

Settings

App appearance (light / dark / Ryan) and the app font, these sync across every GMIAU Shell tool.

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UK Government Web Archive

Drag this to your bookmarks bar

Archive Check
  1. Drag the button above onto your bookmarks toolbar.
  2. Browse to any page (e.g. a gov.uk guidance page).
  3. Click the bookmark: a new tab lists every archived snapshot of that page.

Or add it manually

If your browser blocks dragging, right-click the bookmarks bar Add Bookmark, name it Archive Check, and paste this into the URL / Location field:


 
How the URL works: the */<url> form lists all captures; the no-date form redirects to the most recent capture.

 

 


 
 

 

 
Archive service

 

 
 

 
The UK Government Web Archive (The National Archives) has the deepest coverage of gov.uk and other UK public-sector sites. The Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) covers the wider web. Your choice is saved in this browser (localStorage, key ifyi_archive_service) and rebuilds the Install-tab button + snippet.

 

 


 
 

 

 
App font

 

 
 
 

 
App appearance

 

 
 

 
Tab visibility

 

 
 
 

 
Syncs across every GMIAU Shell tool via ifyi_hide_guide_tab + ifyi_hide_config_tab.

 

 


 

 
No server: this page only builds a bookmark; nothing leaves your browser

 

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