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Parliamentary Archives: Inside the Act Room

The Collection Care team at the Parliamentary Archives

Posted by: Catherine, Posted on: 12 May 2016 - Categories: Collection Care, Outreach, Preservation

Collection Care at the Parliamentary Archives has developed in the past few years from bookbinding to conservation and preservation. The team are Lois, Oriana, Tiffany, Tom and Lara, who are all trained as library and archive conservators. We look after …

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Written Questions and Answers

Posted by: Catherine, Posted on: 28 April 2016 - Categories: Online Access, Preservation, Records Management

We've already posted about the Parliamentary Archives' efforts to preserve and provide access to digital records produced by the Houses of Parliament; but the nature of records produced by the Houses are often difficult to understand. We can illustrate this by …

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Happy Birthday to us!

Posted by: david, Posted on: 1 March 2016 - Categories: Accommodation, Outreach, Records Management

This year the Parliamentary Archives will be marking two anniversaries: it is 70 years since our office was set up and 20 years since we began to establish formal procedures for the management of modern records. Although Parliamentary records have …

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‘Set in Stone’

Posted by: Catherine, Posted on: 12 January 2016 - Categories: Digitisation, Online Access

We still have some work to do before we’ll be a position to complete our work on the digitisation of the Protestation Returns as described in previous blog posts; but we have already started to plan our digitation projects for …

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None Hath Refused – Digitising the Protestation Returns

Posted by: Catherine, Posted on: 9 December 2015 - Categories: Digitisation, Online Access, Protestation Returns

One of the behind the scenes teams in the Parliamentary Archives is the Digitisation Team – we’re two staff who are responsible for delivering the Archives’ public copying service, digitisation project work and supporting exhibitions and outreach activities. We handle …

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The First World War: Personal Connections

Posted by: david, Posted on: 9 November 2015 - Categories: Exhibitions, Outreach

The First World War had an enormous impact on the lives of those who survived it and also upon their families. To mark Remembrance Day in November 2015, the Parliamentary Archives has put on a small display in the House of …

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Suffragettes in the Parliamentary Archives

Posted by: david, Posted on: 12 October 2015 - Categories: Outreach

We were very excited last week when members of the production team behind the new 'Suffragette' film visited the Parliamentary Archives. Here's director Sarah Gavron, screenwriter Abi Morgan, and producers Faye Ward and Alison Owen, looking at some of our …

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Digital Preservation at the Parliamentary Archives

Posted by: Catherine, Posted on: 7 October 2015 - Categories: Preservation, Records Management

The Parliamentary Archives consists of much more than the physical Act Room. For some years now the Archives has been engaged in crucial work to support Parliament’s transition to 21st century digital ways of working. We are responsible for preserving …

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Outreach at the Parliamentary Archives

Posted by: david, Posted on: 2 September 2015 - Categories: Exhibitions, Outreach

Since 2009 the Parliamentary Archives has adopted a different approach to the way it promotes its work and resources and engages with the public.  In recognition of the fact that many of our collections reflect the history of local communities, …

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Welcome to ‘Inside the Act Room’, the Parliamentary Archives’ new blog.

Posted by: Adrian Brown, Posted on: 19 August 2015 - Categories: Accommodation, Exhibitions, Records Management

The Act Room is the physical and intellectual heart of the Archives. It has been described as ‘the most important room in Britain’, and with some justification: the intricate chequerboard of 64,000 parchment rolls which lines its walls embodies the …

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