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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Roger W. Fern, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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