Tag: collections
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Five Communities: Historic Hook
Recent times have seen us putting the finishing touches to the Excel catalogue, lists and finding aids, and guidance notes for Hook Local History Group. As we are a close-knit team working on this project, with the Project Officers both working to catalogue different parts of a collection simultaneously for maximum efficiency and output. Sometimes,…
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Collecting the Current Crisis
Advice for community groups on Contemporary Collecting for those who wish to collect or document current events. For those who are not familiar with the term ‘Contemporary Collecting’, it is the act of collecting first-hand documentary evidence and artefacts that can illustrate something happening in society in the present day.
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Five Communities: Work Goes On
Our Five Communities History Group Project work continues apace despite the current challenging times. My colleague Angela and I have been working together with the Llangwm Local History Society in providing detailed cataloguing and digitisation of their extensive local collection of archives telling the history of Llangwm and the community. Even a global pandemic has…