[with apologies for cross-posting]
* Collections of the Month: Astronomy has been in the news in recent weeks
with one of the most powerful solar flares in years, and a campaign for
'dark skies'. The Hub includes descriptions for the papers of leading
astronomers, physicists, and mathematicians, and for the records of
instrument makers and observatories:
<http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/nov03.shtml>
* Latest additions: New descriptions from the Royal Agricultural College,
Cirencester. Additional descriptions from the Universities of Dundee,
Exeter, Leeds, and Warwick, and the University of Wales Aberystwyth. The
Hub's 15,000th description is for the National Viewers' and Listeners'
Association Collection at the University of Essex:
<http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/index.html>
* The Tavistock Institute has published its 'Summative Evaluation of the
Archives Hub': <http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/index.html>
* You can see a performance based on scripts from the Labour History Archive
& Study Centre's Unity Theatre Collection at the 'Culture in Radical
Politics' conference, Manchester, November 22nd, 2003:
<http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/tour/rad.shtml>
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Archives Hub Data Editor
MIMAS, Manchester Computing,
The University Of Manchester,
Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL.
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