With apologies for cross posting.
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A2A Update, September 2000
Two more A2A funding applications are to be submitted to the Heritage
Lottery Fund this month. In mid-September the West Midlands Region bid was
sent to HLF. The project in question, entitled Muck and Brass, covers
archives relating to urban and rural life held in 14 local government,
specialist and university repositories in the region. Following closely
behind is Yorkshire and Humber Region with Yorkshire Signpost, a project
which aims to provide collection-level finding aids to the Yorkshire
archives available to the public in more than 50 local repositories.
Work on a bid for funding for the conversion of 40,000 catalogue pages is
proceeding in the South West Region, where the scope of the A2A project,
originally restricted to school and other education archives, has been
expanded to include ecclesiastical parish records. The consortium intends
to submit its application (now in draft) to HLF in mid-October 2000. It is
led by Gloucestershire Record Office, where an in-house marker-up will
prepare the catalogues for retroconversion. Other consortium participants
are the local authority archives of Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset, Devon,
Plymouth, Bristol and Wiltshire.
The Political Archives Consortium funding application is being finalised,
with a target submission date of the end of October 2000. This A2A project
aims to convert catalogues of political archives including those of the
prime ministers David Lloyd George, Stanley Baldwin, and Antony Eden; the
statesmen Hugh Gaitskell and Ernest Bevin; and political thinkers including
Jeremy Bentham and George Orwell. Negotiations are continuing up to the
last moment relating to the possible inclusion of the Walpole papers and the
R A Butler archive.
For more information on these projects, email <[log in to unmask]>.
A2A is a step towards a virtual national archives catalogue for England and
will make available 8 million catalogue entries for archives dating from the
twelfth to the twentieth centuries and held in national, local and
specialist archives repositories on the www by March 2002. For more details
on this retroconversion initiative, see
<http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/A2A/default.htm>.
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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 8878 8905
Email: [log in to unmask]
www: http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/A2A/default.htm
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