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England’s Places archives

One of the most well-known collections in the Historic England Archive, the Architectural Reed Box Collection, has now been scanned and made available online. The collection consists of over 600,000 photographic prints taken of cities, towns and villages around England, … Continue reading

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World War II: ‘Wartime Domesday’ book showing life in 1939 to be made publicly available online

In a move that will transform the study of key aspects of 20th century British social history, one of the country’s most important data collections is being made available to historians and the general public from 2 November. Historical researchers have … Continue reading

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The end of an era

It has finally come to pass, the Russulla classroom is going next week. Thanks to everyone today for helping with our final tidy out. The room will always hold a lot of memories for our merry band! It’s been everything from … Continue reading

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Weekend recording session

The  7th and 8th of November 2015 will be a recording weekend to to complete all recording on site and wait for it…do some backfilling…yikes! If this sounds like fun, let Andrew know. Can you make either and/or both days?  All help … Continue reading

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PASt Explorers: finds recording in the local community

The Portable Antiquities Scheme’s 2015 conference celebrates the launch of PASt Explorers, the Scheme’s five year Heritage Lottery Funded project to recruit and train volunteers from local communities, increasing the capacity of the PAS to record archaeological objects found by … Continue reading

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