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I think that this description of the latest update of the A2A databases on-line contains a lot of potential interest for REEDers A. 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 16:36:05 +0100 From: "Midgley, Frieda" <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: "From: Local-History list" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: A2A Update, April 2003 > With apologies for any inconvenience caused by cross-posting, > > Frieda > > ***************************** > > A2A Update, April 2003 > > The latest update to the A2A database at www.a2a.pro.gov.uk took place on > 31 > March 2003; the database now contains over 4.35 million catalogue > entries from 318 archives repositories in England. > > The new additions included: catalogues of the records of agricultural > businesses from Reading University Rural History Centre, submitted as part > of the Agriculture and Trade project; catalogues of the records of various > local societies, organisations and interest groups from Bexley Local > Studies and Archives Centre and London Metropolitan Archives, submitted as > part of the Campaigning London project; a catalogue of volumes of > topographical drawings of Hertfordshire by Henry George Oldfield, from > Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies; catalogues of major collections > from the Rothschild Archive, London; a catalogue of the King's Lynn > Borough Archives from Norfolk Record Office; catalogues of archive > material from the regimental museums of the King's Own Scottish Borderers > and the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers; catalogues of Parish, ecclesiastical, > court and school records submitted by Coventry Archives, Herefordshire > Record Office, Shropshire Records and Research Centre, Staffordshire and > Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies, > and Worcestershire Record Office, as part of the Seven Ages of Man > project; and catalogues of the extensive archives created or accumulated > by the India Office and related bodies, submitted by the British Library. > > Further collection-level descriptions from the Yorkshire Signpost project > have also been added, as have catalogues of various archives held at > Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Centre, Cheshire and Chester > Archives and Local Studies Service, and Lancashire Record Office. > More finding aids for hospital archives - held at several repositories - > were also included this month. The next A2A database update should take > place towards the beginning of May. > > Work has also now begun on five more projects - South West Family Fortunes > (access to family, estate, solicitors and business archives in the South > West Region), Private Faces in Public Places (access to a variety of 19th > and 20th century archives held by 6 museums and other organisations in the > South East), Re-Membering Black Performance (access to 20th century > archives of the Black Theatre Forum and Nitro Theatre Company), A Place in > the Sun (access to information about people and places mentioned in the > policy registers of the Sun Insurance company for 1816-1824 held at the > Guildhall Library), and More than Meets the Eye (access to the Documentary > Photography Archive relating to life in the North West) - so look out for > material from these projects appearing on A2A in the near future. > > 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. > > > > Frieda Midgley > Editor, A2A > The National Archives (PRO) > Kew > Richmond > Surrey TW9 4DU > > Tel: 020 8392 5330 > Fax: 020 8392 5319 > Email: [log in to unmask] > www: <http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk> > > > > > This e-mail message (and attachments) may contain information that is confidential to The National Archives. If you are not the intended recipient you cannot use, distribute or copy the message or attachments. In such a case, please notify the sender by return e-mail immediately and erase all copies of the message and attachments. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message and attachments that do not relate to the official business of The National Archives are neither given nor endorsed by it.