News
Our news feed contains information about new resources, newly catalogued or acquired archive collections, current and upcoming projects and events, and service developments.
Information about past work at the Modern Records Centre is included in our annual reports and information bulletins (available online from 1996/7 to 2016/7). Recordings of several past events are also available - the student-led Open Education Series, 2014-2016, and the schools project Archives Alive, 2016.
Transcription Tuesday Data now available!
Some of you may remember Transcription Tuesday back in February when our compensation register for the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS) was used as the source for an international online transcription event, hosted by Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine and the University of Portsmouth. The register contains nearly 120 pages and over 2,000 entries – all transcribed by a large army of volunteers in the space of a day!
The data has now been cleaned and added to the large and growing database which is part of the Railway Work, Life and Death project based at the University of Portsmouth.
A big Thank You to all the volunteers who helped to make the records available.
Intrigued about the project and want to find out more? - read our blogpost on the Worldwide railway collaboration!
MRC joins top 5% of UK archives
The MRC is delighted to have joined the top 5% of archives in the UK by being awarded Archive Service Accreditation. Granted by the UK Archive Service Accreditation Committee, the award is recognition of the MRC’s successful demonstration of meeting the UK standard around resourcing, collections management and providing access to collections and is regarded as the UK quality standard for archive services. To find out more about the award see: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/archive-service-accreditation/
Commenting on the MRC being awarded Archive Service Accreditation Helen Ford, Archives Manager for the MRC, said:
"We are extremely pleased to receive this national recognition for our archive service. All of the staff at the MRC deserve acknowledgement and thanks for their hard work and contributions towards this award. We aim to build on this and keep developing our collections management and access activities for all our visitors and researchers."
Land Worker catalogued!
20 boxes of journals and other publications received from Unite the Union have now been catalogued and added to our online catalogue.
Highlights include a full set of the journal 'Labourer' / 'Land Worker', 1915-1981, which has been added to the archives of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers. The journal, illustrated with photographs, cartoons and engravings, is a great source on rural life, labour and activism in the 20th century.
