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Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service
"Thy Life is a Miracle": Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday in Testing Times
The COVID-19 crisis has curtailed plans to celebrate Shakespeare’s Birthday in the usual manner. The traditional parade through Stratford-upon-Avon and the associated civic and cultural events have been abandoned in the interests of public health. However, a massive social media campaign is planned for 23rd April 2020 – #SaluteToStratford. Undertaken by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and partners, including Archives West Midlands, this will cel...
Sandwell Community History and Archives Service
Hereford Cathedral Library and Archives
Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Volunteers Learning Room
Prior to the lockdown being implemented we had suspended all our volunteering projects. The Service has in excess of 100 volunteers working with us and the challenge was to stay in touch with our volunteers and to support them where we could. Initially we had hoped to begin a programme of sending out scans and photocopies of documents for our volunteers to work on, but by 24th March we had to close the Service and the buildings to staff as well....
Media Archive for Central England
Re-writing the Old Poor Law – with Volunteers’ help
Staffordshire Archives has been working with Keele University for the last two years on a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council called ‘Small Bills and Petty Finance’. Funding supports volunteers in three locations, Brighton, Carlisle and Stafford, in tackling bundles of miscellaneous overseers’ bills and receipts, sometimes catalogued as vouchers. Each piece of paper has been unfolded, numbered if not previously given an ite...
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Library & Archives
Warwickshire Bytes – A Local Project with Global Reach
People around the world have been helping to index a huge collection of county Quarter Sessions Depositions as part of the Warwickshire Bytes project, with the enterprise proving so successful that Warwickshire County Record Office is now working to incorporate these remote volunteers into their core service. More than 80 people signed up to the project during 2019, using digitised images and documents shared via the Cloud to transcribe informati...
Archives West Midlands Annual Review 2018–2019
...We are delighted to announce the publication of our latest Annual Review. It, as ever, contains a wealth of information not only about us but also the wonderful work our members have completed in the last twelve months. This snapshot shows the amazing work archives across the West Midlands are doing working with new partners and finding exciting ways to engage new audiences: Please download the attachment to find out more....
Dudley Archives and Local History Service
Reopening Suspended Services
Archive services across the West Midlands have started to reopen after suspending services at the end of March. On Tuesday 30th June 2020 AWM held a virtual workshop to support member services with their planning and to share best practice. Safe and Sound Unsurprisingly, much of the discussion focussed on ensuring we welcome public back in a way that is safe for them and our staff. Some of the solutions, such as asking people to wash their hands...
Archives West Midlands Annual Review 2019–2020
We are delighted to announce the publication of our latest Annual Review. As with our previous reviews, it contains an overview of the work of Archives West Midlands and the exciting and innovative work our members have completed in the last year. The review provides an insight to the fabulous work archives across the West Midlands are doing and the importance of Friends and volunteers in achieving the successes we do. Please download the attachm...
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
Oswestry Town Council Archives
Making Progress in Digital Preservation
Open to all
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November 17, 2020
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Archives West Midlands is delighted to announce that it will be hosting ‘Making Progress in Digital Preservation’ – a virtual training workshop provided by the Digital Preservation Coalition. This follows on from the success of ‘Gettting Started in Digital Preservation’, which AWM hosted last year. It takes participants to a more advanced stage where they can make practical, informed decisions. The workshop includes Making a Case for Digital Pres...
Keele University Special Collections and Archives
Shropshire pins historic photographs to an online map
At our recent Friends’ Event we were very fortunate to hear about some of the wonderful projects undertaken by the various Friends of Archives groups across the region. One such project was a wonderful mapping project being completed in Shropshire. The project is linking historic photographs in Shropshire Archives collection to an online map. This clever use of metadata allows people to search for information and is not dependent on a place name...
Shropshire Archives
Jim's Fifth Page: a sample document
Here is a copy of our latest annual report, recording the the good work in 2018/19
City of Birmingham Archives and Collections
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