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*A2A Update, August 2002*
The A2A database at www.a2a.pro.gov.uk was updated again on 6 August 2002.
Prominent among the new additions were catalogues from the *Yorkshire
Signpost* project. These catalogues comprise collection-level descriptions
of archives held at 3 local government archives repositories, a national
museum and 5 universities in the Yorkshire region: Barnsley Archives and
Local Studies, Hull City Archives and York City Archives Department; the
National Railway Museum Library and Archives in York; and the J B Priestley
Library at Bradford University, Huddersfield University Library, the Brynmor
Jones Library at Hull University, the National Centre for English Cultural
Tradition and Language at Sheffield University, and the Borthwick Institute
of Historical Research at the University of York. The wide variety of
archives described includes records of Barnsley Amateur Operatic Society,
and of the Methodist churches in Hull; many collections of railway
photographs held at the National Railway Museum; and papers of the
playwright and novelist J B Priestley with the archives of the J B Priestley
Society. More *Yorkshire Signpost* catalogues will be added in future
updates this year.
Other additions this month include finding aids to archives held at Norfolk
Record Office; East Sussex Record Office; and the British Library's Oriental
and India Office Department - notably charters, statutes and treaties of the
East India Company and its successors dating from 1600 to 1947, and records
of the surveyor's office at East India House and the India Office, chiefly
concerning the maintenance and construction of buildings in London and
elsewhere in England, dating from 1815 to 1934.
Readers also may be interested to know that the information pages about A2A
on the main Public Record Office website have also been updated recently,
for the benefit of those contributing to the A2A programme or planning A2A
projects. The pages can be found at www.pro.gov.uk/archives/a2a.
A2A is the English strand in the UK archives network: its database at
www.a2a.pro.gov.uk already contains the electronic equivalent of over
400,000 catalogue pages describing archives held across England in national,
local and specialist repositories and dating from the 900s to the present
day. The A2A programme will make a further 300,000 catalogue pages
available on the web by March 2004.
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Sarah J A Flynn
Regional Liaison Co-Ordinator, A2A
Public Record Office
Kew
Richmond
Surrey TW9 4DU
Tel (direct line): 020 8392 5328
Fax: 020 8392 5319
Email: [log in to unmask]
www: http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk
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