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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...
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...
Interested in volunteering
... There are a wide variety of volunteer opportunities at the member services. Many people enjoy volunteering with archive across the West Midlands. Whether you wish to learn something new, meet new people or just doing something that feels good volunteering is a great way to do this whilst finding out more about and becoming better connected with your community. Please contact your nearest service if you are interested in volunteering. ...
City of Birmingham Archives and Collections
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Oswestry Town Council Archives
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Keele University Special Collections and Archives
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Mary McKenzie
Mary has more than 30 years archives experience. She is currently Archives Team Leader at Shropshire Archives and is a long-time supporter of regional collaboration. Mary believes that working in partnership across archives, and other cultural services, is essential to enable the sector to progress and develop in increasingly tough times. Her particular interests include developing remote access to collections, and working in partnership with vol...
Elizabeth Oxborrow-Cowan
Elizabeth set up her own archive consultancy in 2003. She has since worked with archive services across the UK and with key strategic and policy bodies such as The National Archives, the Archives and Records Association (ARA) and the Welsh Government. Elizabeth sits on the Archive Service Accreditation Standard Committee and chairs UNESCO’s Memory of the World UK Committee. She is an Assessor for the ARA’s professional membership programme and a ...
Joanna Terry
... Joanna Terry is Head of Archives and Heritage at Staffordshire County Council. She is also an executive member of the Chief Archivists in Local Government Group and a member of the Victoria County History Advisory Board. A former electronic records manager, Joanna is passionate about using digital technology to promote and share archives, and has a particular interest in developing solutions to preserving born digital archives. ...
Dr Clare Watson
Clare is Director of the Media Archive for Central England based at the University of Lincoln, and works closely with sector colleagues through Film Archives UK. She is also a member of the executive of the East Midlands Regional Archive Council. Clare has considerable experience in archive education, having led training in film and television archiving at MA level, co-ordinated the Media Archive Traineeships in partnership with Creative Skillset...
Richard Lewis
... Richard is Collections and Development Manager at Heritage & Culture Warwickshire, and has worked for a number of other local authority services including those in Dudley, Staffordshire and West Yorkshire. He has also worked in the archives at the Mercers’ Guild and Bletchley Park Trust. Richard is passionate about community engagement and demonstrating the relevance and importance of archives to the communities they serve. ...
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Our Archives
The value of archives Archives are the documents we produce as we go about our lives that are retained for their long-term historical value. Archives provide a contemporaneous, authentic voice from the past providing the core evidence for past decisions, actions, experiences and relationships. As such they are vital for a multitude of uses including education, research, democratic accountability, personal understanding and community identity. Arc...
Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service
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Wolverhampton City Archives
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Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service
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Shropshire Archives
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Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Library & Archives
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Sandwell Community History and Archives Service
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Media Archive for Central England
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Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre
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Hereford Cathedral Library and Archives
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Dudley Archives and Local History Service
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Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections
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