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Better education of children is one of our great aims for the post war world. The Education Act which embodies all our hopes became law on August 3rd last. Since then many people have felt that the ...

Mary Cook, whose husband has been lately transported for sheep stealing, is left with 4 young Children, one of them an infant, and requires Parish relief. Now in this case the family wd cost 11s a ...

I wish to inform you of a case of great urgency – A sister in Law of mine who has been subject to fits for the last twelve years which has taken her faculties – so much as to render her incapable of ...

Would have the kindness to Look into my case of distress That 35 I have 2 motherless Children been left with them 3 years and 8 months through this panic and Bad Trade it as thrown me out of ...

The National Archives is the archive for the UK government and for England and Wales. However, the Government of Wales Act 2006, Part 6, sections 146-148 makes provision for Welsh public records, ...

Late in 2022, Somerset Archives were informed that a series of 20th century business records had been found by developers in a disused premises in South Somerset. The archives, which had been stored ...

What were the outcomes for service users? Prior to the mould project, collection production for researchers was routinely affected by the mould outbreak. Items were often only identified as mouldy ...

The presence of mould spores meant that access to the buttery books and their storeroom had to be immediately restricted. Hertford College archives are housed in an old building on a very packed site ...

The key project challenge was the unknown scope and distribution of the mould outbreak which was why a comprehensive survey was undertaken. Space limitations in the store and manual handling ...

In 2023 archive staff at Hertford College Archives were packing their archives to transfer them into specialist storage ahead of their Library & Archive redevelopment project. Staff discovered an ...

The Somerset Heritage Centre does not have a drying room, or separate fumigation suite, so alternative accommodation was needed to dry the mould without contaminating other archival material. Staff re ...