Welcome to Project Merlin
Explore the Merlin Database, a comprehensive UK resource dedicated to nuclear testing studies, created and analyzed by students at the University of Liverpool. 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. Our skilled team of student volunteers, specially trained within the Centre for People's Justice at The University of Liverpool, have done a brilliant job adding extra information to the Merlin files. 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
'Opening the Merlin database transforms what we can know about Britain’s nuclear past. It is a powerful resource for education, an opportunity to rewrite British nuclear history from the ground up, and a tool for social justice—putting the evidence into the hands of veterans, their families and Indigenous communities whose lives were shaped by nuclear testing.'
Professor Chris Hill, the University of South Wales