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News at a glance |
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News at a glance |
The Landmark Trust’s Spring 2007 newsletter includes a section headed ‘Open Days 2007’ which list properties by name and county, but not location. If you telephone requesting the actual address you are told this is not available for ‘security reasons’. Quite how the Trust expect potential visitors to find their properties without doing their own detective work beforehand is a mystery! The 1911 census occupies two kilometres of shelving at The National Archives and is to be digitised, in partnership with ScotlandOnline, in readiness for going online from 3 January 2012. From 2009 ‘there will be a phased release of information starting with the major conurbations’. 1911 is the first census where the householder’s schedule has remained the master entry, rather than the enumerator’s notes, which means that researchers will be able, in most cases, to view their actual ancestor’s handwriting when looking at the census entry. The 18th Century Worlds Centre is being launched by Liverpool University on 1 May 2007 and will be dedicated to researching life in the 18th century. The city was chosen because it is ‘one of England’s foremost Georgian towns and much of its 18th and early-19th century architecture has survived’. For more details type ‘18th Century Worlds Centre’ into an Internet search engine. Women at War is the name of an excellent website created by pupils and staff at the Stanway Primary School near Colchester, Essex. Email your local history news and information to news@local-history.co.uk or by post to Local History Online, 3 Devonshire Promenade, Lenton, Nottingham NG7 2DS.
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27 April 2007
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