Not only is this bad for historians in the future, I very, very much doubt it will save even the paltry £4.5 million GBP they claim it will. Even after the init

Not only is this bad for historians in the future, I very, very much doubt it will save even the paltry £4.5 million GBP they claim it will. Even after the initial, massive digitization is amortized, they'll still have to pay people to digitize wills and maintain a public database to search them, and my word does £4.5m go really fast when the government is involved. I'd bet money that they'll figure out a way for it to cost more and destroy history.