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Abigail

Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/
Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada
Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask]
List-owner of REED-L <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html>
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page

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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:08:21 -0000
From: "Stark, Sarah" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: "From: Local-History list" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: A2A Update, December 2002

With apologies for any inconvenience caused by cross-posting
sjas

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*A2A Update, December 2002*

A celebration of culture in England was held by the A2A Central Team at the
Public Record Office in Kew on Saturday 30 November.  At A2A Uncovered,
researchers and other members of the public enjoyed a free buffet lunch
followed by a concert of English songs and readings from a 19th century
thriller and Black theatre archives - based around A2A's database at
www.a2a.pro.gov.uk, online at the event.  Digital images of relevant
archives described (or soon to be described) in A2A were projected during
the performances.  Talks on planned A2A projects were also given.  Our
thanks are due to all those who contributed to the event, which helped to
bring A2A and archives in general to the attention of a wider audience.
The latest update to the A2A database took place on 2 December: the number
of English repositories contributing catalogues now stands at 218.  Further
catalogues from the Yorkshire Signpost project have been added, from 20
repositories ranging from the Bayle Museum in Bridlington to the York
Merchant Adventurers Company.  Also included in this month's update were
catalogues of hospital archives held in 11 repositories across England.
The A2A Central Team is very pleased to announce that the Heritage Lottery
Fund has made two grants to A2A projects led by archives users - A Place in
the Sun and Re-membering Black Performance.
A Place in the Sun, delivered by the London Archive Users Forum, will
provide A2A with detailed information about people and places mentioned in
the policy registers of the Sun Insurance company for 1816-1824 held at the
Guildhall Library.  Re-membering Black Performance, co-ordinated by Future
Histories, will provide new catalogues of the 20th century archives of two
Black theatre organisations - the Black Theatre Forum and Nitro Theatre
Company - held at Middlesex University.
As we are approaching Christmas you might like to know that the archives
described in A2A include a photograph of 'BGAC girls' learning how to make
Christmas cake in the 1950s (among the papers of the Cadbury family held at
Birmingham City Archives), crew lists for a vessel - or possibly more than
one - called the Mistletoe (held at Devon Record Office), and tickets for
Christmas dinners organised by the League of Welldoers at the turn of the
last century (held at Merseyside Record Office).  You might like to see what
else you can find...
A2A is the English strand in the UK archives network: its database at
www.a2a.pro.gov.uk already contains the electronic equivalent of over
400,000 catalogue pages describing archives held across England in national,
local and specialist repositories and dating from the 900s to the present
day.  The A2A programme will make a further 300,000 catalogue pages
available on the web by March 2004.

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Sarah J A Stark
Regional Liaison Co-Ordinator, A2A
Public Record Office
Kew
Richmond
Surrey TW9 4DU

Tel (direct line): 020 8392 5328
Fax: 020 8392 5319
Email: [log in to unmask]
www: http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk

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