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A2A Update, October 2001 #2
A2A site updated
The A2A website at http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk was updated on Friday 26
October and now contains almost 1.3 million records (catalogue entries)
describing archives held in 100 record offices and other institutions across
England - catalogue entries which may now be searched and browsed together
via A2A's single database.
Information added on 26 October includes catalogues to the papers of the
British Prime Ministers Andrew Bonar Law and David Lloyd George, and to
those of other political figures, provided by the *Political Archives
Consortium*; the extensive archive of original Acts of Parliament dating
from 1497 to the 1990s, held at the House of Lords Record Office; and
further catalogues from the *London Archives on the Wider World* project:
including sources for the history of medicine held at the Wellcome Library
for the History and Understanding of Medicine, papers of military figures at
the Imperial War Museum, and archives of exploration held by the Royal
Geographical Society. Further finding aids relating to family and estate
archives held in the South East of England have also been added by the *From
Landlord to Labourer* project, as have catalogues relating to the archives
of Quarter Sessions and Petty Sessions courts and a range of other records,
held by local archives services including those of Cambridgeshire, Cumbria,
Devon, Liverpool, Norfolk, Suffolk and Somerset.
These finding aids further enhance A2A's value as a research resource for
the academic community, and their presence on A2A's site will also open up
the archives they describe to other researchers, including local and family
historians, school children and students, and to the public at large. The
site includes contact details for the archives institutions involved, so
that users can easily arrange to see or obtain copies of relevant source
material.
Preparation for Phase 2 of the A2A programme is continuing, and further
projects are in the pipeline, planned by archivists and archives users
across England, to start in April 2002.
A2A is the English strand in the UK archives network and will make 8 million
catalogue entries for archives dating from the twelfth to the twentieth
centuries and held in national, local and specialist archives available on
the www by March 2002 at http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk.
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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 5281
Email: [log in to unmask]
www: http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk
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