RQG Full Response to MOJ on the Storage and Retention of Original Will Records
Following consultation with our membership, the RQG Board of Directors have responded to the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) regarding the storage and retention of original will documents. RQG MOJ Consultation Response 19 February 2024 v2.0
Researching Criminal Ancestors
In recent years, the expansion in digitisation of historical records used by genealogists and family historians has led to the wider availability of material relating to crime, policing and punishment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Materials such as criminal registers, institutional prison records and photographs or ‘mugshots’ are often used by archives and museums […]
Celebrating Archives: Bradford University Archives
University of Bradford Special Collections has over 100 collections over 1.5 kilometres of shelves: archives, rare books, photographs, maps, drawings and digital media, offering a wonderful range of primary sources for both study and enjoyment. The University of Bradford became a home for a new chair in Peace Studies in 1973. The department thrives to […]
Celebrating Archives: Southampton University Archives
Celebrating your archive With 6.5 million manuscript items and 50,000 printed books, the University of Southampton’s Special Collections provide a resource of remarkable richness and depth. Southampton is also home to one of the largest Jewish archives in Western Europe; the Division has more than 850 collections of manuscripts of Anglo-Jewish archives. This makes Southampton an important […]
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