WHAT'S NEW?
Update: January 2010
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Welcome to our 'What's new?' page
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| We are adding new material to our website all the time, and we would like our visitors to come back regularly and enjoy adding to their knowledge of Ewyas Lacy as much as we do. But amongst many thousands of existing records it may not be easy to find what has changed since your last visit, so we have developed this page to help point you in the right directions. We expect to produce a fresh 'What's new?' page about quarterly, or whenever a significant body of new work has been uploaded.
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ELSG Website
To keep abreast of current technology our software consultant Paul Freeland has restructured our site behind the scenes to be more user friendly to search engines such as Google. This will ensure that our site gets improved exposure to potential users. A 'Sitemap' has also been added which indicates site content and provides useful links when browsing. The sitemap can be reached from the 'Sitemap' link at the bottom of all main pages. |
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Documents
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| Historical document summaries are the heart of our website, underpinning all of the search and browsing facilities. There is a rolling programme of work to capture new material from both public archive sources and private local collections. Recent additions include: |
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- Deeds relating to clergy advowsons in Walterstone and Llancillo
- Documents relating to the sale of the Urishay Castle Estate, 1913
- Report on Meredith Maddy's charity 1840
- Deeds and documents from the Watkins Papers and Snodhill Papers 1389 - 1907
- Index of deeds relating to Clergy advowsons in Rowlestone and Llancillo 1801 - 1944
- Collection of deeds of Firs Farm, Olchon 1752 - 1846
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Themes
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| Themes not only allow us to highlight important topics, but also give freedom to 'tell a story' and bring together different facets of history that otherwise might not readily be connected. They reflect individual interests as well, and occasionally arise from research on other topics that leads into curious historical byways. There are no additions or updates this quarter. |
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Collections
Collections include transcriptions of historical documents, records of the recollections of local people, research papers on local history topics and collections of digital images.
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Transcriptions
Transcriptions are important not only because original manuscripts are sometimes difficult to read, but also because the full text becomes searchable on the website. New transcriptions recently uploaded include
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Research
An important objective of our website is to provide fresh insights into the history of the local area, based on analysis and interpretation of the historical records. The resulting research papers are also updated from time to time as and when significant new information becomes available. Newly added research material includes: |
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Digital Image Collections
Local photographs of people and places are important records of relatively recent times. However, our images collections also extend to photographs of original archive material. These are being taken as part of our own work aimed at preserving and making accessible a diverse range of historical documents and publications. Recent additions to our Digital Images Collections can be viewed by following the links below.
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Guest Contributions
There are many historians whose fields of study include various aspects of Ewyas Lacy, and we are pleased to publish relevant articles by guest contributors. These may or may not have been previously published elsewhere. |
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Further contributions are welcome, subject to editorial review; please use our contact page to get in touch.
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