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A2A Update, November 2001
The A2A website at <http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk> was updated again on
Wednesday 21 November. 2751 new catalogue files have been added to the
site, which now contains over 1.4m catalogue entries from 113 record offices
and other institutions across England.
The November update includes the first retroconverted electronic catalogues
submitted by three projects: *Governing London*, the West Midlands project
*Muck and Brass*, and *TRAP* (the Tracking Railway Archives Project). The
*Governing London* catalogues include finding aids for local government
archives relating to a range of locations in London, held by three London
boroughs, Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies and London Metropolitan
Archives. The catalogues submitted through *Muck and Brass* cover selected
estate and business archives held by the local government archives services
of Sandwell, Shropshire, Warwickshire and Wolverhampton, and trades union
and other archives held at the University of Warwick's Modern Records
Centre; while the catalogues from the *TRAP* project include finding aids
for the archives of six railway companies, held at Greater Manchester County
Record Office, and for railway archives held at Northamptonshire Record
Office - finding aids which have been selected for A2A by TRAP members, who
are all users of railway archives.
Further catalogues from the following projects have also been submitted:
*Access to Somerset Archives*, *From Landlord to Labourer* in the South East
Region, *London Archives on the Wider World*, and the *Political Archives
Consortium*. Other new A2A catalogues include those relating to the
archives of Petty Sessions and Quarter Sessions courts held by Staffordshire
Record Office, Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office and other local authority
archives services; and finding aids for a range of other archives held by
local authority and other archives institutions, including Cambridge
University Library's Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, and
Wirral Archives Service.
A2A is the English strand in the UK archives network and will make 8m
catalogue entries for archives dating from the 12th to the 20th 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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