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Following the success of last year's NGfL Environment Challenge, the National Grid for Learning is running an online local history trail. The trail - which can be accessed at www.ngfl.gov.uk/localhistory - features online activities to help people use the internet to discover more about their local area. The trail has three main areas: quizzes, investigations and the gallery. Everyone who sends in a contribution to website will be entered into a prize draw to win a year's family membership of English Heritage. The local history trail runs from 24 February to 25 April 2003. Free posters publicising the trail are available by emailing the NGfL Content Team at [log in to unmask] NOTES A list of some of the websites featured in the NGfL local history trail follows: English Heritage is responsible for all aspects of protecting and promoting the historic environment in England. Its website provides details of its conservation and preservation work as well as information about the historic sites in its care. www.english-heritage.org.uk The National Monuments Record is English Heritage's public archive, which runs the Images of England initiative. This project is creating a photographic record of every listed building in England to place on the internet. www.imagesofengland.org.uk The Historic Scotland website provides information about Scotland's historic properties, ancient monuments and listed buildings. www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/index.htm Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments includes details of the heritage sites in Wales that are managed by Cadw. www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/ The Environment and Heritage Service (Northern Ireland) website provides information about heritage sites and historic monuments in Northern Ireland. www.ehsni.gov.uk/default.asp Local history projects Cambridgeshire History on the Net is a collection of photographs and text which reflect Cambridgeshire as it was at the beginning of the 20th century. www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/library/history/home1.htm Knowsley Local History contains an interactive history of the Merseyside metropolitan district of Knowsley and the local community. It includes photographs from the borough's archive collection, a history tour, timeline and maps. http://history.knowsley.gov.uk My Brighton and Hove features photographs, memories and interesting facts about places in Brighton and Hove, as well as personal online tours created by local people and visitors. www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/ Powys Digital History Project (Prosiect Hanes Digidol Powys) uses local archive documents, photographs and early maps to reveals the history of six communities in the heart of Wales. http://history.powys.org.uk/ Victoria County History (VCH) is an encyclopaedic work that aims to record the authentic factual history of every city, town and village in England. Research continues and more than two hundred volumes have already been written. www.englandpast.net/ National archives The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. This website provides information about its collections and services, virtual exhibitions of some of its major treasures, and access to several online catalogues. www.bl.uk The National Library of Scotland website has online catalogues and indexes that provide details of the library's extensive collections of books, manuscripts, maps and other materials. www.nls.uk National Library of Wales (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru) is a gateway to the books, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, photographs and other materials held in the collections of the National Library of Wales. www.llgc.org.uk The Public Record Office is the national archive of England, Wales and the United Kingdom. Its collections include the records of central government and courts of law, with documents dating back to the 11th century. The website provides access to its catalogues as well as guidance for researchers and family and local historians. www.pro.gov.uk/ ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************