The Digital Preservation Awards 2020

https://www.youtube.com/embed/8kQnMDm7YdU Last week, the eyes of the world were drawn to a single momentous contest: who would be the winners of this year's Digital Preservation Awards? Wonder no more: you can find a full list of winners on the Roll Of Honour. You can also click on the embedded clip above to hear about finalists …

“Why don’t you just digitise it all?”

If we had a £ for every time we have heard this question... There are many reasons why archive services do not scan all historical documents and make them available electronically - one of the main reasons being the inherent instability of digital files. Most professionals would now dispute that we are really heading for …

The future history of the school admission register

I’m recycling this image of Steve Bloomer’s school admission record (blog posts passim.), and throwing in a question: have you used our admission registers on Find My Past in your research? And do you think historians a century from now will have the same level of interest in us? Old-style admission registers like this are very …

Advent Calendar – Day 3

Another day closer and another item featured from our collections... what might it be? Parish of Derby St Andrew and St Osmund: Extract from a Powerpoint Presentation from Dec 2005 for the Church Equipping Programme (Ref: D958/A/PZ 33/2) - We don't yet have many digital records in our collections but the digital collection is beginning …