A Victorian archive room becomes London’s most atmospheric exhibition

There’s a chance to step through a normally locked metal door and enter a preserved world, little changed since its construction in the 1850s.This is one of the remaining fireproof storerooms from what was, at the time, the national archives held at the Public Record Office, known as the “strong-box of the Empire”.
And at the moment, it’s open to visit because an audio artwork is taking place inside. The art is made up of people reading out extracts from letters that tell