Jim,
Details of your website went out in today's Education on the Internet
newsletter (14,700 subscribers).
You will find details at:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/internet6.htm
If other members want news included in Education on the Internet please send
it to me at
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John Simkin
----- Original Message -----
From: Angela Leonard <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: archive information
> Many thanks for this Jim,
>
> Could you resend me the beginners guide to joining the mailing list -
I'll
> see if I can publicise it further at INSET and perhaps see if it can be
put
> on our website.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim GRANT" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 9:31 AM
> Subject: archive information
>
>
> > Dear all
> >
> > I have been sent the following message from Sarah Flynn at the PRO which
> > may be of interest to members and their students.
> >
> > > 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>.
> > >
> > > * * * * * *
> > > 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
> > >
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> > Jim Grant
> > Head of Humanities
> > Cirencester College
> > Fosseway Campus
> > Stroud Road
> > Cirencester
> > GL71XA
> > Tel : 01285 640994 ex 258
> > Email: [log in to unmask]
> >
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