I was hanging back a little before announcing this as there are a couple of
navigational improvements to be made, though the searchability is fine.
Anyway please let us know what you think, and any suggestions for
improvements.
Other news from Durham VCH:
See our website, http://www.durhampast.net, which is growing fast. It now
includes a full transcript of the Barfoot & Wilkes directory for Sunderland,
c. 1795, as well as lists of 18th-c Sunderland freemasons.
Durham VCH vol iv, Darlington, is now launched - first big volume from the
revived Durham VCH. See http://www.boydell.co.uk/04356265.HTM
Best wishes,
Gill
Dr Gill Cookson
County Editor, Victoria County History of Durham
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From: "Roger Fern" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 1:20 PM
Subject: Online Bibliography of North-east History and Archaeology
> Thanks very much to Sue Ward (Ncle Antiqs) for what follows, which is
> a news item sent in by Gill Cookson (Durham VCH). I think that Sue
> is going to run a little piece on it in the next issue of the
> Newcastle Antiqs' News Bulletin. I hope that Sue & Gill don't mind
> me jumping the gun with it, but I thought it was a very interesting
> development. I've had a look at the site, which is already live.
>
> Roger.
>
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> Online Bibliography of North-east History and Archaeology
>
> Launching this month at:
>
> www.sunderland.ac.uk/nebibliog
>
> is a searchable bibliography of articles on north-east history and
> archaeology.
>
> Thanks to a grant from the Marc Fitch Fund and considerable technical
> support from the University of Sunderland, we have been able to
> digitise and mount online a card index of 6,500 articles. The index
> resulted from a Manpower Services Commission scheme in the 1980s, and
> has since been gathering dust in an attic.
>
>
> The University of Sunderland is helping develop the site further
> during the coming months, with support from its History research
> budget, and we hope among other things to update some of the journal
> runs which presently stop when the MSC scheme halted in the late
> 1980s.
>
>
> Please tell your friends and colleagues about the site. We think it's
> going to be immensely useful.
>
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