Category: History and Heritage
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Five Communities: Final Furlong
Well here we are on the last lap and I’m not entirely sure where the last two years have gone to. Certainly I’m delighted by what whats been achieved. Thousands of documents have been catalogued and images produced that are currently being transferred in quantity to the Peoples Collection Wales enabling community history groups to…
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Five Communities: Reflections
It doesn’t seem nearly two years since this project started but when I look back I have learned so much. I started this project as an interested amateur who had a thirst for knowledge and some ability to archive but knew that I needed to look closely at how other people archived! I was so…
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An Archivists View of the Five Communities Project.
As we come towards the end of the Five Communities Project, I thought it may be an idea to step back for a moment and look at things from the perspective of a professional archivist with over two decades of experience of working with in both the museum and archive sector. Being someone who has…