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With apologies for any inconvenience caused by cross-posting. sjas ~~~~ A2A Update, April 2004 As Phase 3 gets under way, the A2A Central Team is very pleased to announce that the Heritage Lottery Fund have now made grants to 12 new A2A (Access to Archives) projects. These projects include the following: - Robert Boyle for the 21st Century: delivered by Birkbeck, University of London, this project will contribute to A2A an extended catalogue of the papers of the great 17th-century scientist Robert Boyle, held at the Royal Society, with links to digital images of key documents; - South West Access All Areas: delivered by Cornwall Record Office for the South West Region, this project will convert 43,000 existing catalogue pages describing a huge variety of archives in the region, ranging from borough and church archives to the archives of the Gloucestershire Pig and Potato Production Club; - Bradfer-Lawrence: a Rather Different Kind of Collection: delivered by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in Leeds, this project will catalogue the family and estate archives collected by H L Bradfer-Lawrence - including the pre-Reformation stock book of Fountains Abbey, which will also undergo extensive conservation work - and provide an interpretative website about the collection; - Accessing the Ancaster Archive: delivered by the Grimsthorpe and Drummond Castle Trust working with Lincolnshire Record Office, this project will contribute an enhanced catalogue of the Ancaster family and estate archive held at Grimsthorpe at Bourne in Lincolnshire; - Religion and Rebellion: delivered by the History of Parliament Trust working with the Bodleian Library, this project will contribute an enhanced section (focussing on documents of the later Stuart period) of over 17,000 pages of the originally hand-written Edward Edwards Calendar describing the Carte Manuscripts - a major collection of state papers and other documents relating to England and Ireland - held at the Bodleian; - Oyster Sources: delivered by Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Whitstable Museum, this project will contribute new catalogues of the archives of Whitstable District Council and the Wallace Harvey Collection - both significant resources for the history of Whitstable, a Kent seaside town with an oyster fishing heritage; - Hall and Tavern: delivered by the Library and Museum of Freemasonry, this project will provide new catalogues of, and carry out conservation work on, archives relating to the construction of the first Freemasons' Hall and the Freemasons' Tavern and the societies and musical figures who met and performed there in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A2A projects with other sources of funding are also starting. These include: - Bell, Book and Candle: delivered by the North East Region, this project will convert catalogues describing school and church archives in the region; - Church, State and People: delivered by Lambeth Palace Library, this project will convert part of the Library's unpublished manuscripts catalogue, describing personal papers and the archives of church organisations, ranging from mediaeval manuscripts to photographs. There is no A2A database update this month. The next database update will take place at the beginning of June. A2A is the English strand of the UK archives network; its database at www.a2a.org.uk already contains the electronic equivalent of over 700,000 catalogue pages describing archives held across England in national, local and specialist repositories and dating from the 700s to the present day. The A2A programme will make a further 150,000 catalogue pages available on the web by July 2005. * * * * * * 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 8487 9211 Email: [log in to unmask] www: http://www.a2a.org.uk * * * * * *