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Better education of children is one of our great aims for the post war world. The Education Act which embodies all our hopes became law on August 3rd last. Since then many people have felt that the ...

Places of deposit should expect to accession increased volumes of public records from the public sector organisations listed in Schedule 1 during the transition period. During 2016, local places of ...

I wish to inform you of a case of great urgency – A sister in Law of mine who has been subject to fits for the last twelve years which has taken her faculties – so much as to render her incapable of ...

Mary Cook, whose husband has been lately transported for sheep stealing, is left with 4 young Children, one of them an infant, and requires Parish relief. Now in this case the family wd cost 11s a ...

The presence of mould spores meant that access to the buttery books and their storeroom had to be immediately restricted. Hertford College archives are housed in an old building on a very packed site ...

Late in 2022, Somerset Archives were informed that a series of 20th century business records had been found by developers in a disused premises in South Somerset. The archives, which had been stored ...

The key project challenge was the unknown scope and distribution of the mould outbreak which was why a comprehensive survey was undertaken. Space limitations in the store and manual handling ...

What were the outcomes for service users? Prior to the mould project, collection production for researchers was routinely affected by the mould outbreak. Items were often only identified as mouldy ...

In 2023 archive staff at Hertford College Archives were packing their archives to transfer them into specialist storage ahead of their Library & Archive redevelopment project. Staff discovered an ...

The Somerset Heritage Centre does not have a drying room, or separate fumigation suite, so alternative accommodation was needed to dry the mould without contaminating other archival material. Staff re ...