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With apologies for any inconvenience caused by cross-posting. sjas ~~~~~ A2A Update, May 2003 The A2A database at www.a2a.pro.gov.uk was updated on Monday 12 May 2003. It now contains more than 4.5 million catalogue entries describing archives held in 322 archives repositories across England. New catalogues this month came from three current projects - Agriculture and Trade, Campaigning London, and Seven Ages of Man. The archives covered by these catalogues include: correspondence and other archives of a number of Catholic parishes in the Archdiocese of Birmingham (situated in the city of Birmingham and throughout the Archdiocese from Coventry to Caversham), held at Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives and submitted through the Seven Ages of Man project; registers of 32 local Nonconformist churches and letters of the nineteenth-century social reformer Octavia Hill, held at the City of Westminster Archives Centre and submitted through Campaigning London; and records of the National Farmers Union held at Reading University's Rural History Centre, submitted through Agriculture and Trade. This month's update also included catalogues of the proceedings and consultations of the pre-independence government of India, held at the British Library, and collection-level descriptions from the Yorkshire Signpost project. Staff have been appointed to work on three more A2A projects: Access to the Crimlisk Fisher Archive delivered by Filey Town Council; and Aladdin's Cave and Local Governance and the Community, two projects led by West Sussex Record Office for the South East Region. Work is beginning on these projects (which were described in a previous issue of A2A Update) this month. Finally, planning for the development of A2A after March 2004 is continuing. Some responses to the recently-issued position statement and call for expressions of interest (now available at www.pro.gov.uk/archives/a2a/a2apostmar04.htm) have already been received, and the A2A Central Team look forward to receiving more. 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. * * * * * * Sarah J A Stark Regional Liaison Co-Ordinator, A2A The National Archives Kew Richmond Surrey TW9 4DU Tel (direct line): 020 8392 5328 Fax: 020 8392 5319 Email: [log in to unmask] www: http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk * * * * * * This e-mail message (and attachments) may contain information that is confidential to The National Archives. If you are not the intended recipient you cannot use, distribute or copy the message or attachments. In such a case, please notify the sender by return e-mail immediately and erase all copies of the message and attachments. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message and attachments that do not relate to the official business of The National Archives are neither given nor endorsed by it.