With apologies for any inconvenience caused by cross-posting,
Frieda
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A2A Update, April 2003
The latest update to the A2A database at www.a2a.pro.gov.uk took place on 31
March 2003; the database now contains over 4.35 million catalogue
entries from 318 archives repositories in England.
The new additions included: catalogues of the records of agricultural
businesses from Reading University Rural History Centre, submitted as part
of the Agriculture and Trade project; catalogues of the records of various
local societies, organisations and interest groups from Bexley Local Studies
and Archives Centre and London Metropolitan Archives, submitted as part of
the Campaigning London project; a catalogue of volumes of topographical
drawings of Hertfordshire by Henry George Oldfield, from Hertfordshire
Archives and Local Studies; catalogues of major collections from the
Rothschild Archive, London; a catalogue of the King's Lynn Borough Archives
from Norfolk Record Office; catalogues of archive material from the
regimental museums of the King's Own Scottish Borderers and the Royal
Regiment of Fusiliers; catalogues of Parish, ecclesiastical, court and
school records submitted by Coventry Archives, Herefordshire Record Office,
Shropshire Records and Research Centre, Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
Archive Service, Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies, and
Worcestershire Record Office, as part of the Seven Ages of Man project; and
catalogues of the extensive archives created or accumulated by the India
Office and related bodies, submitted by the British Library.
Further collection-level descriptions from the Yorkshire Signpost project
have also been added, as have catalogues of various archives held at
Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Centre, Cheshire and Chester
Archives and Local Studies Service, and Lancashire Record Office.
More finding aids for hospital archives - held at several repositories -
were also included this month. The next A2A database update should take
place towards the beginning of May.
Work has also now begun on five more projects - South West Family Fortunes
(access to family, estate, solicitors and business archives in the South
West Region), Private Faces in Public Places (access to a variety of 19th
and 20th century archives held by 6 museums and other organisations in the
South East), Re-Membering Black Performance (access to 20th century archives
of the Black Theatre Forum and Nitro Theatre Company), A Place in the Sun
(access to information about people and places mentioned in the policy
registers of the Sun Insurance company for 1816-1824 held at the Guildhall
Library), and More than Meets the Eye (access to the Documentary Photography
Archive relating to life in the North West) - so look out for material from
these projects appearing on A2A in the near future.
A2A is the English strand in the UK archives network: its database at
www.a2a.pro.gov.uk already contains the electronic equivalent of over
400,000 catalogue pages describing archives held across England in national,
local and specialist repositories and dating from the 900s to the present
day. The A2A programme will make a further 300,000 catalogue pages
available on the web by March 2004.
Frieda Midgley
Editor, A2A
The National Archives (PRO)
Kew
Richmond
Surrey TW9 4DU
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