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Mapping projects
The Public Record Office and the Historical Manuscripts Commission managed and cooperated with other professional bodies on a series of surveys to gather quantitative and qualitative data about archival facilities and services in the United Kingdom. These are collectively known as the archival mapping projects.
The archival mapping project methodology has been applied to a number of projects in recent years. The methodology enables the collection of reliable, comparable data about facilities and services in archive repositories. Through these surveys a detailed picture of archival provision across the United Kingdom has been compiled, and is of great use in planning archival strategy and funding policies at all levels.
Phase 1: Survey of English Local Authority Record Offices (1997-98)
- Our Shared Past: an archival Domesday for England (PDF, 204.75kb)
Phase 2: Survey of English Local Authority Record Offices (1999-2000)
- Our Shared Past: developing 21st century archive services (PDF, 455.29kb)
Archives in Wales (1998-99)
- The archival mapping project for Wales (PDF, 122.90kb)
The Scottish mapping project
An Archival Account of Scotland
Missing link
The Society of Archivists' Missing Link survey of specialist repositories in the UK
Places of Deposit Bulletin
This regular magazine was sent to all Places of Deposit for Public Records and included news and articles from the Public Record Office, later The National Archives. It has been replaced by RecordKeeping.
Back issues of Places of Deposit Bulletin are available below:
- November 2003 (PDF, 646.89kb)
- July 2003 (PDF, 776.03kb)
- December 2002 (PDF, 738.40kb)
- September 2002 (PDF, 364.63kb)
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