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The A2A database continues to grow. Note the new URL for the project (given below and now up-dated on our theatre resource page). 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: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:52:31 -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, November 2003 With apologies for any inconvenience caused by cross-posting. sjas ~~~~ A2A Update, November 2003 The A2A database at http://www.a2a.org.uk was updated on 12 November. The database now contains 5.7 million catalogue entries describing archives held in 335 record offices, libraries and other repositories throughout England. The update included the first catalogues from 3 current projects. Among these were finding aids describing the following: * archives of pre-nationalisation gas companies based across England, held by Transco plc's National Gas Archive in Warrington, with archives of businesses and estates in the North West held by the local authority archives services of Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Rochdale, submitted by the regional project Mills, Mansions and Corner Shops; * deeds and local history notes amassed by the nineteenth-century local historian Percy Woods, held at Godalming Museum; and texts of lectures by the classical philosopher and Professor of Greek, Dorothy Tarrant, and the research papers of Caroline Spurgeon, Professor of English Literature, held at Royal Holloway, University of London, submitted by Private Faces in Public Places (a South East Region project); * archives relating to the South Yorkshire coal industry, including archives of the National Union of Miners and papers of Samuel Lawrence, colliery manager, held at Barnsley Archives and Local Studies and at Doncaster Archives Department, contributed by Shafts of Light. The update also included further catalogues from the following current projects: * Aladdin's Cave and Local Governance and the Community, in South East England; * Broad Acres, Big Houses, Yorkshire People; * Communities in the Records, in the East of England; * Cosmic Rays and the Solid State, and South West Family Fortunes, in South West England; * Families, Estates and Communities, in the East Midlands; * More than Meets the Eye, at Greater Manchester County Record Office; * Parishes and People, at Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Huntingdon; * Saints and Sinners, in London and the South East. More 'born digital' finding aids and catalogues of public records held locally were also added this month, including catalogues describing regimental archives held at Staffordshire Regiment Museum (including papers relating to Major Robert Cain VC who was recently featured on television), and archives of north London hospitals held at the Royal Free Hospital Archives Centre. A2A has a new web address - http://www.a2a.org.uk. Please start to use this URL, pass on the news and update any web links or publicity material you may have. The former URL will be withdrawn at some point next year. Lastly, A2A usage since launch now stands at 2.5 million searches and 5.2 million catalogue downloads. A2A is the English strand in the UK archives network: its database at www.a2a.org.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 700s to the present day. The A2A programme will make a further 300,000 catalogue pages available on the web by March 2004. * * * * * * Sarah J A Stark Regional Liaison Co-Ordinator, A2A The National Archives Kew Richmond Surrey TW9 4DU Tel (direct line): 020 8392 5328 Fax: 020 8487 9211 Email: [log in to unmask] www: http://www.a2a.org.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.