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Sandhurst: New content available for download…

TownsWeb Archiving are very pleased to announce that we have added a new collection of records to the Sandhurst Collections website. A collection of more than 2,800 ‘Cadet End of Term Report Sheet’ have been digitised, transcribed and added to the site. These records contain such details as: Name of Cadet Date/Term And comments from [...]

Brunel University: Digitising a photographic record…

TownsWeb Archiving has recently completed a digitisation project with Brunel University to create an exhibition and catalogue of the University’s historical photographic collection. The collection of 350 photographic prints illustrate the history of the Borough Road College, a predecessor college to the University, showing officers and sporting teams over a period from 1895 to 1948. [...]

We Need Staff!

TownsWeb Archiving is one of the UK’s top digital archiving companies specialising in the UK’s cultural heritage sector. Due to company growth we are currently looking for people with the following skills to work from our picturesque studios in Kettering, Northamptonshire: PHP/MYSQL Web Developer Sales Consultant Office/Admin Assistant Please refer to our website for full job descriptions: [...]

Green Tigers Let Loose: A unique online archive

The Royal Leicestershire Regiment was founded in 1688 and served with distinction around the world until being merged into The Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964. The Regimental Trustees wanted to make some major changes to the management of  their existing databases of soldier and medal records, which could not be updated by themselves. Therefore it [...]

Revisiting old jobs: Kingston Cemetery

We have recently added our Kingston Cemetery case study to our Clients & Case Studies page. After scanning the Cemeteries records, TownsWeb, working with Kingston’s IT team, designed and developed the burial records search pages, providing remote public access online to search records and download pages. Re-visit this project, and see how TownsWeb can help [...]

Grant budget for new awards 2012-2013

The Heritage lottery fund has announced changes to their funding programmes for 2013. Full details will be announced in May 2012. The Heritage Lottery Fund has just agreed an increased budget for new awards in 2012-13 of £375m. This budget represents an increase of £120m over their 2011-2012 budget and is made possible by the [...]

UK told to increase digitisation efforts

The European Commission has called on the UK to raise efforts to digitise cultural material through public-private partnerships as well as the adoption of national strategies. Its recommendation on digitisation and digital preservation states that the UK should “pool their resources” in digitising cultural material. The UK have also been urged to adopt national strategies [...]

Wigan Archives: add more online photos for purchase…

An additional set of more than 200 aerial photographs have now been added to the Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust (WLCT) online photographic library. This fascinating set of old aerial images were found within the archives of the Councils Planning Department. They show striking redevelopment images of the town centre and the outskirts of Wigan in [...]

AIM Revise Sources of Funding List

AIM has revised the sources of funding list on their website as part of an overall upgrade of their site.  There is a web link to each funding opportunity. See: http://www.aim-museums.co.uk/images/uploads/Funding%20Sources.pdf

Access & Revenue through Digitisation – FREE Presentation

If you work in a Register Office you may be interested to know about a ‘Supplier Showcase’ event taking place on 14th October at the Moat House in Stafford. You will have a chance to personally speak to suppliers of new products and services that will help you to run your service or business more [...]