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[with apologies for cross-posting] ** Collections of the Month: What's In A Place-Name? ** This month sees the launch of a new database of Welsh place-names at the University of Wales Bangor, and so we are highlighting the papers of linguists, geographers, and historians who have researched place-names in the British Isles. <http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/aug05.shtml> ** New features ** Registering with the website means it's easy to save your search results and email them to yourself. <http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/whyregister.shtml> ** Latest additions ** Additional descriptions from University of Exeter Library (Special Collections), St John's College Library, University of Cambridge, and from the School of Oriental and African Studies. These include a descriptions for the papers of Griffith John (1831-1912), Welsh missionary in China. <http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/index.html> ** Contributor's event ** The University of Wales Bangor's Welsh place-names database will be launched at the National Eisteddfod at Bangor on August 1st, 2005. <http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/aug05a.shtml> Paddy Paddy Collis Archives Hub Data Editor MIMAS, Manchester Computing The University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/