With apologies for any inconvenience caused by cross-posting.
Note that the information for those planning A2A Phase 2 projects available
at <http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/a2a/a2ausefullinks.htm#phase2> has also
recently been extended.
sjaf

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*A2A Update, February 2002*

The latest update of the A2A website at <http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk> took
place on Friday 22 February. The electronic equivalent of 37,000 original
catalogue pages was added to the A2A database, which now contains 2.2
million catalogue entries from 130 record offices and other institutions
across England.
These new catalogues include the first from two A2A projects: *Picks and
Pistons* in North East England, and the *Web of Science History*. The
*Picks and Pistons* finding aids relate to the industrial heritage of the
North East, and include letters of George and Robert Stephenson held at
Northumberland Record Office, and archives of the Association of Engineering
and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen held by Tyne and Wear Archives Service. The
finding aids from the *Web of Science History* project relate to
twentieth-century personal papers of various scientists, including the
letters and papers of Sir George Lindor Brown held in the Royal Society's
archives.
The additions also include catalogues of Church of England parish records
(and other archives) from two regional projects: *@ the Heart of the
Community* in the South West (parish records held in the local authority
record offices of Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire,
Plymouth and West Devon, and Wiltshire and Swindon); and *Governing London*
(records of London parishes held in the local authority record offices of
Hackney, Lewisham, Southwark, Surrey, Tower Hamlets and Wandsworth, and in
London Metropolitan Archives).
Further catalogues have been added to A2A from the following consortium
projects: *Access to Somerset Archives*; *From Landlord to Labourer* in the
South East Region; *Landscape and Archives* in the Eastern Region; *Muck and
Brass* in the West Midlands; and *Our Mutual Friends in the North* in the
North West Region. The new catalogues also include finding aids for a
variety of archives held by Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records
Service.
In a development which enhances the UK archives network, it is also now
possible to link to A2A catalogue descriptions from some of the index
entries in the online National Register of Archives, available on the
Historical Manuscripts Commission's site at <http://www.hmc.gov.uk/nra/>.
Lastly, as of 1 February, over 200,000 searches had been performed on the
A2A databasesince May 2001, including 55,700 in January, over double the
previous month's figure of 21,800.


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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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