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-------- Original Message -------- A2A Update, July 2004 The latest update to the A2A database at http://www.a2a.org.uk took place on Wednesday 28 July. 621 finding aids were added - bringing A2A's total to 82,270 - describing archives held in 352 record offices, libraries, museums and other repositories across England. A2A has now passed 3 milestones: it contains 7 million catalogue entries, and has been searched 4 million times since launch, with 9 million catalogue downloads as a result. The new catalogues included finding aids describing the following archives: * correspondence relating to Cornelia Connelly, 19th-century foundress of the present-day Society of the Holy Child Jesus (a teaching order of nuns), and her family, held at Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives and contributed through the Archives' own resources as a new project in Phase 3; * photographic views of Mayfield in East Sussex including the Society of the Holy Child Jesus convent there (held among Baker and Kirby family archives) at East Sussex Record Office, contributed to A2A through the Aladdin's Cave project in the South East of England; * the archive of the Vocation Sisters, an order established in the 20th century, including taped interviews with individual nuns, held at West Sussex Record Office - contributed through the regional project Local Governance and the Community; * on a different theme: the significant Wentworth Woodhouse family and estate archive held at Sheffield Archives, contributed through the Broad Acres, Big Houses, Yorkshire People project; * and the archives of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, including photograph albums and service rolls, held at Queens Lancashire Regimental Museum in Preston. Additionally, 12 catalogues of photographs of the built heritage held in the National Monuments Record by English Heritage were amended, to include links to over 5000 digital images of the photographs they describe. These images can be viewed from relevant A2A search results; they include, for example, photographs by Eric De Mare of a range of building types, especially industrial buildings such as the Chesterton windmill in Warwickshire, and inner city and new town developments with a strong emphasis on the housing estates and high rise blocks of the 1950s and 1960s. Phase 3 projects continue to progress: all but one of those seeking funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund have now received decisions, and mark-up for retroconversion is beginning. A2A is the English strand of the UK archives network; its database at http://www.a2a.org.uk already contains the electronic equivalent of over 700,000 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 150,000 catalogue pages available on the web by July 2005. * * * * * * 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 * * * * * * ********************************************************************** National Archives Disclaimer 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. ********************************************************************** -- 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