Hello Nick,
Not quiet what you asked. However one game I like to play with this sort
of question is to use the Google Groups advanced search page at
http://groups-beta.google.com/advanced_search
This searches a huge archive of newsgroup and bulletin board messages,
and you can specify date ranges for messages (back to the 1980's). So,
you can look for the number of times a phrase was used in a particular
time-span to track its increasing popularity (or otherwise) over time.
Maybe one for Friday afternoons...
Ed
Nick wrote
> can anyone point me towards the first use of the term Historic
> Environment Record - I think it was first mentioned in a speech, but
the
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