Welcome to Project Merlin
Explore the Merlin Database, a comprehensive UK resource dedicated to the data contained within the Merlin Collection. Our platform offers open access for everyone to engage with historical data.
The Merlin Database is a unique online platform providing access to a recently released classified UK database on nuclear testing. We aim to make learning about nuclear history accessible and engaging for all.
'Project Merlin is an exceptional resource for the nuclear community. For the first time, nuclear test veterans, their families, and other impacted communities will be able to access detailed official information about test operations. We hope you find the website useful!'
Dr Jonathan Hogg, Reader in Twentieth Century History, University of Liverpool
‘The Project Merlin website is an exciting new resource that promises to advance social justice and genealogical research for the nuclear community. The work that has gone into preparing this resource alongside LABRATS champions The Centre for People’s Justice’s core values of empowerment, care, trust, action, and change.’
Professor Helen Stalford, co-convenor The Centre for People's Justice, The University of Liverpool
'This is an essential resource which brings a previously classified archive into a format which is accessible by everyone, using the power of AI. This archive contains information which has been hidden for decades behind national security. In the quest for truth and justice, this new tool is essential for anyone researching the British Nuclear Testing program.'
Alan Owen, Co-Founder LABRATS (Nuclear Test Veteran Descendant)