## A Year In Archives

The Dartmoor Trust's inspiring project, Dartmoor 
Life in WW1 - which looked at the impact of the 
First World War on rural communities - won the 
prestigious Community Archive and Heritage 'most 
inspiring' award, as well as overall Community 
Archive of the Year.

Feeling so proud - great monitoring and building management means we've beaten our #energy targets!

Liverpool city centre's 
oldest building and centre 
for contemporary arts has 
been awarded a £210,000 
grant to deliver the My 
Bluecoat project. 

This extraordinary digital project - that 
highlights, shares and celebrates the 
history of Bluecoat on the occasion of 
its 300th anniversary in 2017 - brings 
to life the history of a building that 
has a long, symbiotic relationship with 
Liverpool and its people.

@explorethepast @thehiveworcs #worcester Image credit: Bluecoat - Liverpool's centre for the contemporary arts Image credit: Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service

## More Than Metres Of Public Records Accessioned By Local Authorities 1,094

Shropshire Museums and Archives celebrated the completion of a seven year collaboration with National Trust property, Attingham Park. 225 archive boxes containing hundreds of letters and documents were successfully catalogued and are now celebrated in articles, exhibitions and guided tours of Attingham.

Image credit: Shropshire Museums and Archives and improve wellbeing Heritage Quay | University of Huddersfield The M&S Company Archive set up reminiscence therapy sessions to help improve wellbeing and mental abilities associated with memory, using 'memory boxes' containing original clothing, accessories and documents from the handling collection. They also run a memory café once a month.

Image credit: M&S Company Archive The team at Heritage Quay worked with colleagues in the University to create artworks that play music, using content from their collections as inspiration.

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Staff and academics contributed a 
short article on their favourite item 
from around 3 million manuscripts  
to produce this ibook. 

                                                                                                    In support of LGBT history month, Tower Hamlets Local History Library  
                                                                                                    & Archives ran a photography competition to capture LGBTQ+ life in the 
                                                                                                    borough. All submitted photographs were added to the archive's heritage 
                                                                                                    collection and a temporary exhibition.

Image credit: Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham, iBook

                                                                                                                                                   Image credit: 'By the Canal' Photographer: Josh James, courtesy of Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives

crowdfunding goal for digitising their inscribed narrative reports for the Second World War that reveal the hidden histories of a million wartime women.

on an exciting project that focused on one of Dorset's largest and most significant archive collections, that of the Bankes family. 

This collection is stored in 800 boxes dating from the 13th century to the present. If it wasn't for the immense commitment of the volunteers, this collection would have remained unknown to many of us.

Founded in 1967, the UK Data Archive has grown to be an internationally acknowledged centre of expertise. This year the archive celebrated 50 years of curating high quality research data, through taking a tour of the archive's work with a series of short articles entitled 'A decade in 50 words'.

Image credit: © National Trust: Bankes of Kingston Lacy family and estate archive, deposited with Dorset History Centre The picture on the left is from 1968 and shows the first director of the archive, Professor Allen Potter, and the data bank in action.

                                                                   350 hours of film footage were digitised by the 
                                                                   Imperial War Museum, for the centenary of the 
                                                                   First World War, giving people across the globe 
                                                                   access to their First World War film collection -  
                                                                   one of the oldest and largest in the world.

                                                                                                                                    Image credit: ©IWM (HU64119)

Impressed by the giant History Wall at @HSBC Canary Wharf yesterday, built to mark #HSBC150 - #archives taking centre stage at HQ! #bac2016
Image credit: Joe Chapman, taken at the 2016 Business Archives Council conference held at HSBC

## More Facebook Followers For Archives Across The Country (Cipfa)

Bexley Archives and  
Local Studies celebrated reaching over

                                                                                 The new Manchester 
                                                                                 map created today with 
                                                                                 help from @z_mcr shows 
                                                                                 what our young people 
                                                                                 cherish about Manchester. 
                                                                                 #ExploreYourArchives

                                                                                                                                                                                                           Image credit: Manchester Central Library

Image from Bexley Local Studies & Archive Centre