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A2A Update, February 2001
Press Release
South East leading the way for archival access
A grant of £85,600 has been awarded by the Heritage Lottery Fund to enhance
access to the South East's archival treasures via the internet. By making
archive catalogues available centrally and in a searchable format, both
amateur and professional historians will be offered the opportunity to
locate useful documents at the tap of a keyboard.
The project, entitled From Landlord to Labourer, covers over 200 archive
collections held in 15 local record offices throughout the South East, from
Oxford to the Isle of Wight and from Southampton to Canterbury. 32,000
catalogue pages will be made accessible to all.
Councillor John Waddington, chairman of Hampshire County Council's
Recreation and Heritage Committee, said: 'I am delighted that the Heritage
Lottery Fund has agreed to make this substantial sum available. This is an
exciting project which will open up valuable archive resources to more and
more people, at home and abroad.'
From Landlord to Labourer spans 10 centuries and includes papers relating to
merchants and gentry, earls and dukes, townspeople and labourers. Letters
from Queen Victoria and Jane Austen will be among the wealth of documents of
both national and regional significance to be included in the project.
From Landlord to Labourer is part of the Access to Archives (A2A) programme
which aims to provide an archive network for England by March 2002, when 8
million catalogue entries will be accessible online via a single web access
point. A2A is led by the Public Record Office, the Historical Manuscripts
Commission, and the British Library. The South East of England is leading
the way in this innovative programme.
The catalogues covered by From Landlord to Labourer will be available via
A2A's database and will provide a one-stop shop for users, as a few mouse
clicks will take them from descriptions of documents to linked information
on the opening hours and locations of the record offices where the archives
are held.
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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/
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