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*A2A Update, January 2002*
The A2A website at <http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk> was updated once more on
Friday 25 January. The equivalent of over 34,000 original catalogue pages
was added to the site, which now contains over 1.9 million catalogue entries
from 119 record offices and other institutions across England.
The new catalogues include the first finding aids from the *Yorkshire
Signpost* regional project. The collection-level finding aids submitted to
A2A by this project will, as stated in *A2A Update* in April last year, form
an online guide giving summary information on *all* the archives in the
region accessible by the public. The finding aids included in this month's
site update describe archives held by West Yorkshire Archive Service at
Bradford - such as Church of England and Catholic parish records,
Nonconformist church archives, the archives of local government, businesses,
trades unions and schools, and the papers of families and individuals.
Also of note are the catalogues added this month from the South West
Region's *@ the Heart of the Community* project, which include finding aids
for Church of England parish records held by the local authority record
offices of Bristol, Cornwall, and Wiltshire and Swindon, as well as school
archives held at Gloucestershire Record Office. And historians of politics
will be particularly pleased to know that the site update included the 3
final catalogues of the papers of politicians (Henry Brougham, Hugh
Gaitskell and Lord Randolph Churchill) submitted to A2A by the *Political
Archives Consortium* (PAC) and thus that all the PAC catalogues may now be
searched online.
More 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*; *Landscape and Archives* in the Eastern Region;
*London Archives on the Wider World*; *Muck and Brass* in the West Midlands;
*Our Mutual Friends in the North* in the North West Region; and the
*Tracking Railway Archives Project (TRAP)*. Other new A2A catalogues
include those of the records of the Quarter Sessions courts of Hereford and
Leominster, and finding aids to various archives held in the record offices
of Suffolk and Norfolk.
Lastly, preparation work on projects for Phase 2 of the A2A programme, which
starts in April this year, is gathering pace: one project's application for
additional funding has already been submitted to the Heritage Lottery Fund
and two more bids are likely to be submitted in the near future.
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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