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Indexing Salop Fire Office policies
For the last few years Shropshire Archives has been running a virtual volunteering project which set out to create an electronic index of all the policies issued by the Salop Fire Office between 1780 and 1889 (reference 4791/1/1). The final goal was to produce a detailed index which would be fully searchable via the online catalogue. The project was born out of the first lockdown with a view to keeping loyal volunteers connected with the Archives...
Healthy Minds and Active Bodies: cataloguing the YMCA and YHA Archives
In 2020 the Cadbury Research Library was successful in their application for funding from the Wellcome Trust to catalogue the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) and Youth Hostel Association (YHA) archive collections. They were awarded £235,791 for a two-year project called ‘Healthy Minds and Active Bodies: the promotion of health and wellbeing by UK youth movement’. Both archive collections provide a fantastic body of material regarding wor...
Volunteering at Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service
... Kevin Poole I first met David Everett in October 2005. He helped me to research. Earl's Court farm, Worcester. He helped me in finding field names to a John Doughty, a map maker. David found for me the field names. To which l could put to a copied maps of St John's estate 1732 and 1741. I still have his letter. I am grateful to him....
Archives West Midlands: events calendar 2023
Event Date Location No Barriers: Project Board 19th January Online Members’ Strategy Workshop 1 25th February Online Members’ Strategy Workshop 2 27th February Online No Barriers: EDI RAM workshop February Online Quarter 1 Trustee Meeting 31st March Online Quarter 2 Trustee Meeting 3rd May Online Beyond the Barriers: Project Board 5th May Online Digital Progress: Write Blockers Event 13th June Birmingham Quarter 3 Trustee Meeting 6th July Onlin...
Arts, Design and Media Archive Birmingham City University
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Consultancy Opportunity
... Staffordshire Archives & Heritage , one of our member services, are looking to appoint a consultant to evaluate the Staffordshire History Centre project between 2023 and 2026. For further information please see the below advert. For the Project Brief and Form of Tender please contact Chris Copp, Collections Manager. The closing date for applications is Sunday 14th May 2023. ...
AWM - the next five years!
Having successfully achieved its initial aims, AWM is now developing its strategy for the next five years to ensure it continues to support its members and deliver high quality results for archives across the West Midlands. The Board of Trustees has met to shape a first draft and AWM is now seeking members’ views to ensure that the network’s plans meet members’ needs and reflect the areas they consider important. Workshops AWM will be holding two...
Walsall Archives
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An introduction to Zooniverse - using citizen research to open up archive collections
You may have heard of Zooniverse. It’s the world’s the largest platform for engaging volunteers in research. It has been very successfully used in a diverse range of research in areas such as art, space science, climate change, biology and the humanities. Over the last few years archive services have moved into the arena of remote volunteering so how could Zooniverse help us expand our volunteering offer and deliver new research into our collecti...
Hereford Cathedral Escape Rooms
This year, Hereford Cathedral launched a new visitor offer: an Escape Room. Since the launch in April, all sessions have been fully booked and feedback is overwhelmingly positive. The Escape Room was developed as part of the Eastern Cloisters Project, which was supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and other donors. This project renovated the buildings of the College of Vicars Choral, built in 1475, which enabled the public spaces to be...
Archives West Midlands Annual Review 2021–2022
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 varied and excellent 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 amazing progress all services have made in a number of key areas, such as digital preservation. Pleas...
Justine Pick
Justine is a Doctoral Researcher, teaching associate and committee member of the Friends for the Centre for West Midlands History, University of Birmingham. Her main research interests are focused on the social history of public health and local government but through other roles, freelance research, picture editing and social media management her scope is regional. She is Assistant Editor with History West Midlands, Editorial Assistant for the p...
Progress in Digital Preservation
AWM’s recent AGM provided a welcome opportunity to catch-up on the progress made in digital preservation across the region. Attendees were asked to respond to a series of questions around their digital preservation activity. The full results can be found in the members area. It is clear that there is a lot of long-term activity going on. Services are moving towards implementing coherent digital preservation systems and key documents are in place ...
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 ...
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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. ...
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There are two types of AWM membership -subscription and affiliate. Subscription Membership Subscription membership is open to formal archive organisations within the West Midlands. Any member organisation is expected to be an Accredited archive or working towards archive accreditation. The annual subscription fee is £500. The subscription year runs from 1 April to 31 March. Subscription members have access to all the benefits of membership. Affil...
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Archives West Midlands is a subscription based organisation for archives across the region. It uniquely pulls together a variety of organisations and a wealth of skills, knowledge and expertise into a single body, focused on supporting it’s members’ work by delivering practical support, professional knowledge and collaborative opportunities’ Membership is open to formal archive organisations within the West Midlands. Any member organisation is ex...
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