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Dear all I have been sent the following message from Sarah Flynn at the PRO which may be of interest to members and their students. > A2A site updated > > The A2A website at http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk was updated on Friday 26 > October and now contains almost 1.3 million records (catalogue entries) > describing archives held in 100 record offices and other institutions > across England - catalogue entries which may now be searched and browsed > together via A2A's single database. > Information added on 26 October includes catalogues to the papers of the > British Prime Ministers Andrew Bonar Law and David Lloyd George, and to > those of other political figures, provided by the *Political Archives > Consortium*; the extensive archive of original Acts of Parliament dating > from 1497 to the 1990s, held at the House of Lords Record Office; and > further catalogues from the *London Archives on the Wider World* project: > including sources for the history of medicine held at the Wellcome Library > for the History and Understanding of Medicine, papers of military figures > at the Imperial War Museum, and archives of exploration held by the Royal > Geographical Society. Further finding aids relating to family and estate > archives held in the South East of England have also been added by the > *From Landlord to Labourer* project, as have catalogues relating to the > archives of Quarter Sessions and Petty Sessions courts and a range of > other records, held by local archives services including those of > Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Devon, Liverpool, Norfolk, Suffolk and Somerset. > These finding aids further enhance A2A's value as a research resource for > the academic community, and their presence on A2A's site will also open up > the archives they describe to other researchers, including local and > family historians, school children and students, and to the public at > large. The site includes contact details for the archives institutions > involved, so that users can easily arrange to see or obtain copies of > relevant source material. > Preparation for Phase 2 of the A2A programme is continuing, and further > projects are in the pipeline, planned by archivists and archives users > across England, to start in April 2002. > A2A is the English strand in the UK archives network and will make 8 > million catalogue entries for archives dating from the twelfth to the > twentieth centuries and held in national, local and specialist archives > available on the www by March 2002 at <http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk>. > > * * * * * * > Sarah J A Flynn > Regional Liaison Co-Ordinator, A2A > Public Record Office > Kew > Richmond > Surrey TW9 4DU > > Tel (direct line): 020 8392 5328 > Fax: 020 8392 5281 > Email: [log in to unmask] > www: http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk > ---------------------------------- Jim Grant Head of Humanities Cirencester College Fosseway Campus Stroud Road Cirencester GL71XA Tel : 01285 640994 ex 258 Email: [log in to unmask] _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.