Wednesday, October 5, 2011

archivists and researchers combine to make 80 000 documents and photographs available at the click of a computer key

had regular rows when I was a student of women being excluded from history, a controversy that seems somewhat dated today. But if recent history is unlikely to neglect the role of women, there is much of the last to catch up;. As a new initiative by West Yorkshire file and the University of Huddersfield are sure to get plenty of use and enjoyment

is a site that starts on Friday 7 under the title

History to Herstory

, the latter term I remember the last ding-dong when Juliet Gardiner and Gordon Marsden was successively chief of the magazine's history today. Subsequently powerful work has been done in the history of the world in the 1930s and World War II, while Marsden is a familiar part of life in the north as the Labour MP for Blackpool South since 1997.

two are willing to pay for calls online

History of Herstory

are off

digital versions of over 80,000 documents related to women in Yorkshire ages 19 and 20. This includes the stars of the province known as the Bronte sisters and Amy Johnson, as well as thousands of people currently have no monument, but lead a fascinating and instructive.

funded by JISC, before the Information Systems Committee of the major universities combined, which gave £ 42,545 and Huddersfield uni who paid £ 11 601, the site links to all documents on-line fate of the original. Most are in the archives of West Yorkshire, but with a substantial contribution to Huddersfield and Hull Universities and Bronte Society. Naturally, the organizers are interested in learning more.

Katy Goodrum
West Yorkshire Archive Service, said:

We certainly do not want to deprive people of the ability to see the originals, but the website means that you do not have to travel across the world to use the equipment. The key for me is a huge amount of what is in the words of women, which is quite rare.


A great example of underutilized resources to bring into public view.


His colleague, Dr Rob Ellis, Department of History at UNI, said:

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