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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.

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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: sarah.stark@nationalarchives.gov.uk
www: http://www.a2a.org.uk



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