anniversary
sketchbooks
sculptures
Enthusiasts from all over the globe can now view Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s unpublished sketchbooks, as the second wave of items for the Archives and Access project is made available on Tate’s website this year
To mark their 150th anniversary, HSBC unveiled a pair of cast-bronze sculptures, each representing a grain of rice, at their head offices in Hong Kong. A pattern of 150 images taken from HSBC’s archives is engraved on each one
Children’s
#explorearchives achieved a reach of 25.9 million
Seven Stories, the Centre for Children’s Books archive, added material documenting the writing career of author and Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo, including notebooks relating to War Horse
Royal College
The Royal
of Nursing
Albert Hall
5,648
The Royal Albert Hall launched a new online archives catalogue and performance database. For the first time, researchers can search 30,000+ performances by date, performers, title or keyword
participants took part in #explorearchives on Twitter
Over 50 archives have now received Archive Service Accreditation
273 archives added new collections into Discovery
350
Books archive
This year the Royal College of Nursing turned 100 and delved into their archives to celebrate their centenary
A Year in
Archives 2016
SOUNDCLOUD
sales catalogues monitored by The National Archives for archival material. This year the Pitney Lortie manor minute book (late 17th century) was sold at Chiswick Auctions, and bought by Somerset Heritage Centre (South West Heritage Trust) following notification
Knowsley Archives created a SoundCloud page to provide a space for people to hear some of the many oral history and audio collections that they hold
The BAFTA 2016 film awards used an image from BishopsGate Institute
British
Film Institute
Sir Alan Parker donated his working archive to the British Film Institute, covering 45 years of film making from TV commercials to Bugsy Malone
The Northamptonshire
1.6 million FindMyPast and The National Archives made 1.6 million historic criminal records available online
Olympic Parish Committee The International Olympic Committee archives won the 2015 International Broadcasting Convention Award
The Northamptonshire Parish Registers – detailing millions of baptisms, confirmations, marriages and burials that took place in the local area over a period of 400 years – were made available online through Ancestry
*CIPFA provisional data for 2015/16
“an adventure beyond words” Year 5 visitors to Essex Record Office
About
260,000 volunteer hours dedicated to local authority archives*
“archives are tickets to the unknown” Brunel University London, Library Special Collections
Over 150,000,000 cubic metres of archival holdings*