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Projects in progress
2006
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'1967 and all that'Heritage Lottery funded project that will improve access to and raise awareness of important archival collections that record the hidden history of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities in Britain. The project will be a joint venture led by the Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (LAGNA) housed at Middlesex University, and the London School of Economics (LSE) Archive. A travelling exhibition will be created to promote the awareness of the importance of LGBT history as well as telling the story of the campaign for decriminalisation. There will be talks to community groups and non-heritage organisations and a mapping project will identify previously untapped sources relating to LGBT history held in private or public collections. |
Judy Vaknin, Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive J.vaknin@mdx.ac.uk |
Association of Chief Police Officers - The Open UniversityThis Heritage Lottery funded project aims to make online material available from the Police Archives held at the Open University. Two teaching packages for schools will be prepared, the first concentrating on social history as seen through the eyes of Second World War serving officers, utilising material from the Eric St Johnston papers and Metropolitan Police deposits. The second will be based on the values of citizenship using material from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) deposit. Both packages will include visual material from The Metropolitan Police Historical Collection and the City Police Film Unit. |
Terry Waterfield, Open University, Milton Keynes T.J.Waterfield@open.ac.uk |
Blood, Thunder and High SocietyA Heritage Lottery funded project to create detailed catalogues of two large collections of records of the Strickland - Constable family and of Wassand Hall. They contain significant items for the study of naval and maritime history, women's history, the home front during wartime, London society in Victorian England and country house studies. The catalogues will be made available online through A2A and the East Riding Archives Service's existing online catalogue. A major exhibition will raise further awareness and create new audiences for local archive resources. |
Ian Mason, East Riding Record Office Ian.mason@eastriding.gov.uk |
Buried Battles and Veterans' Voices - Records and Reminiscences of the Queen's Royal Surrey RegimentA Heritage Lottery funded project led by Surrey History Centre to enhance a large collection of regimental records through full archival cataloguing. Memories of surviving veterans of the regiment will be recorded and made accessible to add depth and a personal dimension to the written and pictorial records. Interviews will focus not only on the Second World War but also operations including Palestine (1946), the Berlin Airlift (1949), Malaya (1950s) and Aden (1964). |
Mike Page, Surrey History Centre |
Explore North DevonYour Heritage funded project to develop five community archive collections in the northern Devon area. The project will enable the participating communities to collect and research information about their local heritage and present it to a global audience through the internet. The project partners are Devon County Council archives and coast and countryside services, North Devon and Torridge District Councils museums service and The National Archives. The participating community groups already have extensive collections of photographs, documents, objects and oral history recordings and these will be incorporated into the Explore North Devon resource alongside the newly created digital content. Community events, volunteering, training opportunities, heritage trails and classroom resources will be generated by the project and the end result will be accessible on a bespoke website linked to A2A. |
Contact Tim Wormleighton, North Devon Record Office ndevrec@devon.gov.uk |
Lambeth Archives DepartmentA self-funded project to add further material to Lambeth's strong presence in A2A. A number of catalogues are being added, including those of various schools, churches and Methodist circuits, housing associations and of the South Metropolitan Cemetery Company (West Norwood Cemetery). |
Len Reilly, |
Mauretania: Pride of the TyneThis Heritage Lottery funded project will commemorate the centenary of the launch of the Mauretania in September 1906 and celebrate local pride in ship-building. A collaborative exhibition by Tyne & Wear Archives Service and Tyne & Wear Museums will include the collection of personal testimony about the Blue Riband-winning liner, the creation of accompanying learning materials and the delivery of inter-generational, family and lifelong learning. Web-based learning materials will be linked to the A2A website. |
Colin Boyd, Project Officer |
North Yorkshire's Archives RevealedA Heritage Lottery funded project which will revolutionise access to North Yorkshire's archives. Summary descriptions of all of the collections held at North Yorkshire County Record Office are being created and will be mounted onto the world wide web by the summer of 2006. The online catalogues containing over 4000 entries will be easily searchable through both the North Yorkshire County Council web pages and the A2A website. |
Vicky Hudson, Project Officer |
Pay and PowerAn HLF-funded project based on collections of business, estate and trade union papers that are being catalogued in the West Midlands region, along with a varied programme of outreach and educational activities. The project is independent of A2A but cataloguing is being carried out to similar standards. The completed electronic catalogues are submitted by special agreement for inclusion on the A2A website. |
Judith Karena, |
Rural RootsA Heritage Lottery funded project to initiate and support the creation of local history groups in three rural communities in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The groups will learn new skills through researching and creating information packs to encourage further involvement in community history and through some digitisation of historical material. The information packs and digital resources produced will reach a wider audience through use in schools and on the internet. |
Ian Mason, East Riding Record Office |
Steam and Agriculture (Museum of English Rural Life)Led by the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL), this Heritage Lottery funded project will catalogue archives of Wallis and Stevens, International Harvester and Massey, and will preserve and digitise Wallis and Stevens glass negatives held by Road Locomotive Society. Museum volunteers will be offered cataloguing and basic conservation skills, and opportunities will exist for steam and agricultural machinery enthusiasts to engage with the archive heritage at MERL. A travelling exhibition will tour steam fairs, country shows and workshops will be held at MERL to benefit new audiences. An online exhibition will be created on the MERL and Road Locomotive Society website. |
Caroline Gould, Museum of English Rural Life c.l.gould@reading.ac.uk |
Queer arts, artists, and culture: the queerupnorth archiveA Heritage Lottery funded project led by queerupnorth, in partnership with Manchester Archives and Local Studies. The project will catalogue the records of the arts festival archive and make them available to a wide and diverse audience. Paper archives will be catalogued and deposited at Manchester Archives and Local Studies. Those moving image archives which are deemed to be of historic importance to Manchester and the North West will also be catalogued and donated to the North West Film Archive. In addition the project will train and use volunteers to record memories of people involved in queerupnorth, and make the recordings available. |
Kevin Bolton, Manchester Archives and Local Studies |
Welsh public recordsThe National Archives, via the A2A Programme, is funding an extension to the successful Places of Deposit project. Working in partnership with Archives Network Wales (ANW), the National Library of Wales and local repositories in Wales, the A2A team are converting the catalogues of public records held in Wales to electronic form. These include the records of quarter and petty sessions, coroners and hospitals. The resulting electronic catalogues will eventually appear both on A2A and ANW, as well as being returned for the use of the individual repositories. The work has begun and is progressing well. |
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| What's beneath your feet? Gloucestershire Record Office A heritage lottery funded project led by Gloucestershire Record Office. Project aims include preservation and increased access to 18th and 19th century Gloucestershire enclosure awards and maps that record the physical landscape and landownership. The grant will enable increased access via digitised copies, available both off and online. There will also be a programme of community-based outreach, encouraging new users from a wide age-range in both rural and urban areas. Planned activities include workshops, volunteering, heritage trails, classroom resources, media and online publicity. |
Julie Courtenay, Gloucestershire Record Office julie.courtenay@gloucestershire.gov.uk |
Wiener LibraryA self-funded project to convert 20 of the many catalogues of the Wiener Library, the world's oldest Holocaust memorial institution which traces its history back to 1933. Amongst the catalogues submitted under Archives 4 All are: Reports and other papers re orphans from concentration camps, 1940s; Joseph Mengele, copy papers, 1930s-1980s; and Kitchener Camp, Richborough, 1939-1988. |
Howard Falksohn, |
WISEArchiveA Heritage Lottery funded project dedicated to creating an online public archive by gathering the memories and experiences of the working lives of older people. The project intends to improve the website and encourage greater participation. The electronic archive is searchable by theme, and will be accessible through the A2A site. |
WISEArchive |
Archives 4 All is now accepting expressions of interest for new projects. Information about this development of the A2A project is available on this site.
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