> With apologies for any inconvenience caused by cross-posting.
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>
> A2A Update, June 2003
>
> The A2A database at www.a2a.pro.gov.uk was updated on 23 June 2003. It now
> contains nearly 4.7 million catalogue entries describing archives held in
> 326 archives repositories across England.
> New catalogues this month include the first appearance of material from
> three projects - A Place in the Sun, More than Meets the Eye, and Made in
> Suffolk. The first instalment from A Place in the Sun is a catalogue of
> the records of the Sun Fire Office and its successor bodies, 1706-1996,
> held at the Guildhall Library. Detailed descriptions of the policy
> registers of the Sun insurance company, 1816-1824, which are rich in
> information about people and places, will follow. More than Meets the Eye
> is providing access to the catalogues of the Documentary Photography
> Archive at Greater Manchester County Record Office, relating to life in
> the North West. This archive is particularly rich in material relating to
> the Jewish community and includes photographs of Jewish schools,
> businesses, families, political activists and synagogues. Made in Suffolk
> brings you catalogues of the records of Suffolk businesses, ranging from
> larger companies such as Fisons and ICI to local farmers, blacksmiths and
> traders. This month's update also included further contributions from
> Agriculture and Trade, Campaigning London, Seven Ages of Man, South West
> Family Fortunes, and Tracking Railway Archives Project, 'born digital'
> catalogues from Cheshire Record Office and Lancashire Record Office, and a
> catalogue of regimental records from Cheshire Military Museum.
> There has recently been an addition to the A2A Central Team. Some of you
> will already have met our new editor, Sarah Henning, but we would like to
> take this opportunity to welcome her to A2A.
> Current and prospective projects will be interested to know that we have
> updated the mark-up example in the Training section of our site. This new
> example, which better illustrates current procedure, can be viewed at
> http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/a2a/markup.htm#_Mark-up_example.
> Finally, we are pleased to announce that the number of catalogues
> downloaded from A2A since its launch has now reached the 4 million mark,
> and 1.9 million searches of the database have been performed.
>
> 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
>
> Tel: 020 8392 5330 x2880
> Fax: 020 8392 5319
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> www: http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk
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