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Dear all ** Hub monthly feature ** Canterbury Cathedral Archives: 'Heavenly Harmony: Music in the Collections of Canterbury Cathedral Archives & Library'. In 2018 a project will commence to restore and enhance Canterbury Cathedral's organ, due for completion in time for the 2020 Lambeth Conference, when Anglican bishops from all over the world assemble in Canterbury. There has been a tradition of music as an integral part of worship at Canterbury Cathedral since its foundation over 1,400 years ago and there is evidence of this in both the fabric of the Cathedral itself and the collections it holds. The Cathedral's medieval archive was added to the UNESCO UK Memory of the World Register in 2016. This outstanding nationally significant collection includes over 8,000 charters, 30 of which date from before 1066. Find out more: https://blog.archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/2018/02/01/heavenly-harmony-music-in-the-collections-of-canterbury-cathedral-archives-and-library/ ** Just a few of the latest descriptions added to the Hub ** * Jodrell Muniments, 1286-1783. The Jodrell family of Yeardsley, Cheshire, traced their ancestry to one William Jaudrell, an archer under Edward the Black Prince, Earl of Chester, in the French wars in the mid-fourteenth century. At the time of his death he held lands at Yeardsley cum Whaley, Disley, and Kettleshulme, Cheshire. His son, Roger Joudrell (as the name was then spelt) was one of the four Esquires of the King's body in the reign of Richard II. In 1393-4 he was granted an estate at Whiston, Leicestershire, by Thomas de Mowbray, Earl Marshal, and served with the latter at Agincourt. By the late fifteenth century the family was known as Jodrell. The collection primarily comprises deeds and allied documents such as grants, final concords, releases, leases, surrenders, extracts of court rolls and letters of attorney. Jodrell family papers include wills, inventories of goods, bonds and covenants, marriage articles and settlements, commissions in the militia, and a small quantity of correspondence. There are also papers relating to Edmund Jodrell's two terms as sheriff of Cheshire in 1650-1 and 1670-1. Collection description: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb133-jod Held by: University of Manchester Library Special Collections - browse more of their collections on the Hub: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/GB-133 * Birkbeck College archive, 1823-2015. Birkbeck was founded as The London Mechanics' Institute in 1823. In 1866 it was renamed the Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, after its first president, George Birkbeck. The name was shortened to Birkbeck College in 1907. In 1921 Birkbeck became a constituent College of the University of London, and it received the Royal Charter in 1926. In the Second World War, Birkbeck was the only university in London to stay open during the Blitz. Despite damage to some College buildings, teaching continued. Since 2002 it has been known as Birkbeck, University of London. The collection comprises the surviving institutional records of Birkbeck, University of London, dating from its foundation as the London Mechanics' Institute in 1823 to c.2015. Much of the material derives from the central running of the university: minutes of its governing bodies and their committees; financial records of its administration; prospectus, calendars and annual reports; programmes of events; texts of addresses and lectures given at the college; press cuttings and photographs. Collection description: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb1832-bbk Held by: Birkbeck Library Archives and Special Collections, University of London - browse more of their collections on the Hub: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/GB-1832 * Gurney's & Company, Norwich, 1775-1896. Gurney's bank was founded at Norwich in 1775 by John and Henry Gurney, with Simon Martin, an established London bank clerk, as their manager. The Gurneys were prominent in the woollen and worsted trades, and developed banking from this original business, in the course of which they had become practised in granting credit. Their father, John Gurney (d.1740), had been acclaimed locally as 'the weavers' friend', from his advocacy of the woollen manufacturers' cause before parliament. The accounts of the Norwich Bank are usually recorded and presented in the ledgers alongside summaries for the other partnerships in the Gurney group of banks: Fakenham, Great Yarmouth, Halesworth, Ipswich, Kings Lynn, Wisbech. The first externally audited balance sheet was published in 1891, and included the 'Associated Banks' in East Anglia. Earlier these were usually described as the 'Branch Banks' or 'District Banks'. The early partners' records include accounts for the firm of Gurney & Webb, a merchant business in which the banking partners also held capital. In addition to the banking records, there is material of social, business, academic, religious and political significance in the archive. Much of this is contained in an extensive series of correspondence from the later 18th and 19th centuries, which has been catalogued to item level (with most identifiable correspondents listed in the descriptions), and which has yet to be explored fully. Collection description: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb2044-a03 Held by: Barclays Group Archives - browse more of their collections on the Hub: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/GB-2044 * Fraser Roberts Family of Foxhall, records of, 1821-1979. The archive comprises the personal correspondence and papers of the families that were the antecedents of the Fraser Roberts family who lived at Foxhall in the parish of Henllan in the early to mid-20th century. The structure of the catalogue reflects this, being arranged under the Fraser, Roberts and Griffiths families. The Fraser family were tailors and drapers originating in the Scottish Highlands, some of them settling in north Wales in the late nineteenth century. In 1898 Lily, youngest daughter of Alexander Fraser of Caernarfon married Robert H Roberts of Foxhall. Robert was the son of John Roberts, who had lived at Foxhall since 1851, and Elizabeth Griffiths, daughter of Edward Griffiths of Gwernigron, St Asaph. The correspondence of the children of Lily and R H Roberts, John, Robin and Marjorie are amongst the most recent documents in the archive. Collection description: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb209-dd/f Held by: Denbighshire Archives - browse more of their collections on the Hub: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/GB-209 ** Themed Collection highlight ** Observing the 1980s The 1980s are often presented historically as a decade of polar opposites and social stratification. This collection seeks to address that by presenting first-hand accounts of life throughout the decade from a variety of contributors. 'Observing the 1980s' includes written material and audio interviews with British people from across the social classes, as they reacted to events and general living conditions during the decade. The project features the writing of 23 anonymous Mass Observation participants from the 1980s - the Mass Observation project provides a structured way for ordinary people to write about their lives and contribute to historical archives and social research.26 audio interviews from the British Library's Oral History Collection also feature, enabling those interested in the decade to gain relevant access to the British Library's vast sound archive. Documents from the University of Sussex's open access archive complete the collection by offering access to reports, newspaper cuttings, public information leaflets and government documents that relate to key themes and events of the decade. Find out more and link to this resource: http://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb181-observingthe1980s ** Seminar in Birmingham, 28 February: History and the digital ** History and the digital - new methodologies for future & present historians A free event, hosted by the Centre for Modern and Contemporary History, this seminar intends to be a discussion on the new lines of historical investigation and new methodologies that are opening with the advent of mass digital technology. Marta Musso from Archives Portal Europe and King's College London, Jane Stevenson from Archives Hub, and Courtney Campbell from the University of Birmingham will discuss the impact of digitisation and digital-born sources on historical research. 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