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Most of this particular update is outside our period, save for the collections of the Society of Antiquaries, but I continue to pass along A2A updates because of its overall importance for the kind of research we are doing. Note that I've added the URL to the list of MS repositories on our theatre (and theatre history) reseource page. 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:59:06 -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, February 2004 With apologies for any inconvenience caused by cross-posting sjas ~~~~ A2A Update, February 2004 The latest A2A update took place on Tuesday 24 February 2004. The A2A database at www.a2a.org.uk now contains more than 6.3 million catalogue entries describing archives held in 345 record offices, libraries, museums and other repositories throughout England. Among the 1015 new catalogues are finding aids describing the following archives: * architectural archives held in North East England, including plans and drawings, chiefly relating to churches and other buildings in County Durham and South Shields, catalogued for A2A through the Ashington to Zanzibar project; * the personal papers of the archaeologist Sir John Evans (1823-1908) and those of the philanthropist Elizabeth Jesser Reid (1789-1866), and two collections of 19th-20th century photographs relating to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, the Royal Army Service Corps and the Royal Corps of Transport - held respectively at the Department of Antiquities of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, at the archives of Royal Holloway University of London, and at the Royal Logistics Corps Museum in Deepcut in Surrey, and catalogued for A2A through the Private Faces in Public Places project in the South East; * the 20th-century archives of the Back Theatre Forum and of the Black Theatre Co-operative - Nitro Theatre Company, ranging from administrative files and scripts to publicity material, photographs, audiotapes and videos, held by Future Histories' Black Performance and Carnival Archive and catalogued for A2A through the Re-membering Black Performance project; * 241 business archives of all kinds held at East Sussex Record Office and London Metropolitan Archives, including the records of J Lyons and Company Ltd, operators of Lyons Teashops, Corner Houses and Restaurants from 1894, and those of Fullers and Askew, surveyors and architects of Lewes, contributed by the London and South East project The Works; * the manuscripts in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of London, dating from the 10th century onwards, including the Lindsey Psalter (the most important illuminated manuscript in the collection, dating from before 1222 and originally the property of Robert Lindsey, abbot of Peterborough) and the Winton Domesday (two surveys of Winchester made in circa 1110 and in 1148); *and public records held locally, including railway-related archives held at Derbyshire Record Office, and 1910 Inland Revenue valuation records held at Nottinghamshire Archives and Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office. Remember that A2A is now only available at the new url www.a2a.org.uk. The site at the old url at .pro.gov.uk is no longer being updated, so please change your bookmarks/favourites to the new url, and amend any web links you may have. Finally, A2A usage since launch now stands at 3 million database searches, with 6.3 million catalogue downloads as a result. 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 * * * * * *