With apologies for any inconvenience caused by cross-posting. sjaf
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A2A Update, December 2001
The A2A website at <http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk> was updated again on Friday
14 December. It now contains approaching 1.7m catalogue entries from 115
record offices and other institutions across England.
Among the new catalogues are the first finding aids retroconverted to
electronic form by the following A2A regional projects: *@ the Heart of the
Community* in the South West Region; *East Midlands Manuscripts and
Archives*; *Landscape and Archives* in the Eastern Region; and *Our Mutual
Friends in the North* in the North West Region. The *Our Mutual Friends in
the North* catalogues are to archives held in Cumbria Record Office and
Local Studies Library at Whitehaven, including records of trades unions,
Nonconformist churches and local clubs and societies, while the *Landscape
and Archives* additions include catalogues of photographs, maps and plans
held in Suffolk Record Office's Ipswich branch. The *@ the Heart of the
Community* catalogues relate to school archives held in Gloucestershire
Record Office.
Further catalogues have also been added from the following consortium
projects: *Access to Somerset Archives*, *From Landlord to Labourer* in the
South East Region, *Governing London*, *London Archives on the Wider World*,
*Muck and Brass* in the West Midlands and the *Tracking Railway Archives
Project (TRAP)* - additions from the last-named include railway archives
held in the South East, the South West, Yorkshire, London, Northamptonshire
and Shropshire. Other additions include catalogues of Quarter Sessions and
Petty Sessions court archives held by Buckinghamshire Record Office,
Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Record Office, and other local
authority archives services; and catalogues of a variety of other archives
held by Liverpool Record Office and Local History Service and Norfolk Record
Office.
Lastly, on a seasonal note you may like note that A2A includes references to
a letter including advice on sending Christmas pudding to soldiers during
the First World War; and to a Christmas carol entitled 'The Mistletoe Bough'
associated with a Somerset country parish. Why not see if you can find
them?
A2A is the English strand in the UK archives network and will make 400,000
catalogue pages 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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