Tag: volunteers

The Last Word

As our project comes to an end, Project Officer Felicia Davies reflects on what we’ve achieved in this concluding blog. Having had the privilege of managing the delivery of the Know Your Place – West of England project, I am delighted to have the last word – and blog – of the project. This is […]

Up for the Challenge: South West Heritage Trust’s Take 10 Challenge

Planning your projects to map collections onto Know Your Place can be daunting. Which is why it is important to start with small steps. In this blog, Eve Bickerton of the South West Heritage Trust describes how their team took the Take 10 Challenge to put Somerset’s heritage on the map. The South West Heritage Trust […]

Mapping Collections, Bristol Fashion: The Vaughan Postcards

Historic Mapping, the Vaughan postcard collection and community volunteers. Our series of Workshops to map collections with confidence are continuing throughout May. At our Bristol workshop, City Archivist Julian Warren shared the lessons learned from mapping the Vaughan Postcards Collection. Here, he tells us more…. The Vaughan Postcards collection The Vaughan collection consists of almost 10,000 postcards […]

Spring Newsletter 2017

Spring News from Know Your Place As we leap forward into Spring, we are pleased to update you on the latest Spring News and our plans in the Know Your Place project for the coming months.   Project Springs Forward as Map work nears end With less than 100 maps left to crop, we’re well on […]

Gloucestershire Gets Going! Mapping collections onto Know Your Place

Our series of Workshops to help you map your collections with confidence are now in full swing.   At our first workshop, at The Museum in the Park in Stroud, Julie Courtenay shared the experience of mapping at Gloucestershire Archives. Here, she tells us more…. The workshop in Stroud was a great opportunity to share […]

Volunteers Newsletter – December 2016

Dear volunteers, Welcome to your latest newsletter, updating on all volunteer work and news from the Know Your Place – West of England project. This Month’s Progress During November, you sent back 109 cropped maps and 76 georeferenced maps. Roughly double the previous month, which is excellent. Was this due to the increasingly bad weather […]

Volunteers Newsletter – October 2016

Dear volunteers, Welcome to your latest newsletter, updating on all volunteer work and news from the Know Your Place – West of England project. This Month’s Progress During September you’ve sent back 40 cropped maps and 71 georeferenced maps – making a good dent in our work remaining to be done. We are now close […]

Announcing the launch of Know Your Place in Wiltshire, Bath & NE Somerset and Gloucestershire

Know Your Place project puts three more counties on the map For the first time, historic maps and heritage data of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Bath and North East Somerset are now freely available online in one place, thanks to the latest expansion of Know Your Place West of England. From Stonehenge to Swindon, Keynsham to the Cotswolds, Salisbury plain to […]

Volunteers Newsletter – September 2016

Dear volunteers, Welcome to your latest newsletter, updating on all volunteer news and developments from the Know Your Place – West of England project. From now on we’ll be sharing news with you every month, so do look out for this. Excellent progress! We have more than 50 volunteers involved with the project at the moment, […]

Volunteer Survey – Summer 2016

Please tell us about your experience as a volunteer in this short online survey. Now that we’re more than halfway through the project, we are beginning to evaluate what has been achieved so far and how we can improve the work that’s left to do. Some of you may remember filling in a paper survey earlier this […]