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Electronic Army List 2012 now available

TownsWeb Archiving is proud to announce that, for the third year running, it has exclusively published the Official Army List for Her Majesty’s Army Heritage Branch. The E-Army List 2012 Part I was produced by TownsWeb Archiving in electronic CD-ROM format and is available now. What does the E-Army List 2012 contain? An indispensable resource [...]

The National Coal Mining Museum places more content online…

The National Coal Mining Musum have continued their programme of opening up their archives to researchers and members of the public. Last year TownsWeb Archiving Ltd developed a new ‘Archives’ website for the Museum.  This new website was created to showcase some of the unique material that the Library holds – starting with the first 10 years of [...]

The Adjutant General’s Corps Museum- moving forward

Before the formation of the Adjutant General’s Corps in 1992, four of the Antecedent Corps had their own museum.  The Royal Army Pay Corps Museum was at Worthy Down, the Royal Army Educational Corps Museum was at Eltham Palace in West London, with some displays at Beaconsfield and the Women’s Royal Army Corps Museum was [...]

New Lease of Life for an Oxford College Archive

TownsWeb Archiving are proud to announce that we have helped yet another Oxford College to digitise parts of their historic collection. Jennifer Thorpe,  Archivist at New College Oxford: “In 2012 we raised the funding to commission TownsWeb Archiving to digitise nine volumes from our series of Lease and Conveyance Registers relating to ownership of, and [...]

Falmouth cemetery records – Instant searches, instant results & completely free

TownsWeb Archiving Ltd are proud to announce that we have helped yet another Local Authority scan all of their Cemetery Registers, transcribe the records within them and place them online via the Council’s website in order that members of the public can search them. BACKGROUND Falmouth Town Council has in excess of 25,000 records that [...]

Army List for 2011 is now available on CD-Rom…

TownsWeb Archiving Limited are pleased to announce that the 2011 Official Army List edition has now been published in to a new searchable electronic format and is available to purchase on CD-Rom. The Official Army List – Background The Official Army List (in printed book format), effectively dates back to 1740. The first book was [...]

Sandhurst online archive continues to grow…

TownsWeb Archiving Ltd has recently completed the next stage in digitising the Sandhurst Military Academy archive and placing the content online. SANDHURST HISTORY The Royal Military Academy Woolwich opened in 1741 to train gentlemen cadets for commissions in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. The Royal Military College opened in 1802 to train gentlemen cadets [...]

New 2010 Army List Now Available – In Electronic Format

TownsWeb Archiving Ltd are proud to announce that we are the new publishers of the Official Army List. The 2010 Army List (Part 1) has now been published in to a new searchable Electronic format and is available to purchase on CD-Rom. Army List in Book Format The ‘Official Army List’ in printed book format, [...]

‘Regimental Matters’ – TownsWeb feature in Arc Magazine

One  of our recent projects is featured in this months Arc Magazine. It’s a project that we undertook for The Royal Leicestershire Regiment where we: TWA exported the existing Regimental data from an existing Council system based around Modes and Multimimsy.  TWA then worked with the Trustees in order to ‘cleanse’ the data and import  [...]

HLF Funding Available: Remembering the First World War…

Do you have an idea for a project to mark the centenaries of the First World War but need funding and advice to make it happen? 2014 sees the beginning of a series of centenaries marking the First World War. The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) can provide funds to help you mark these important anniversaries [...]