Design plans for Titanic, sketches by Raymond Briggs and gig posters by Martin F. Bedford will all be more accessible thanks to cataloguing grants.
Archives Revealed has just awarded more than £750,000 in 16 separate grants to archives across the UK.
Recipients range from the Harland and Wolff Ship Plan Archive in Belfast to the Raymond Briggs archive, held by East Sussex County Council.
The grants will help organise records about disabled people’s fight for rights held at The Disabled Peoples Archive in Manchester and at Deaf History Scotland.
Records about plant collectors held at Kew Gardens and the maintenance of windmills and watermills will also be catalogued for public access.
Full list of grants and projects:
Bertz Associates – Discovering Lisel Haas
Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society – Propagating Birmingham Botanical Gardens’ Story
The Bluecoat – Cataloguing the Bluecoat Archive
Deaf History Scotland – Scottish Deaf Archives
East Sussex County Council – Archive of Raymond Briggs
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People – Choice and Control: A history of disabled people’s fight for Independent Living
The Historic England Foundation – Imagining England: the Janette Rosing Photographic Collection, c.1853-1950s
Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association – Homeward Bound
London Borough of Brent – Cataloguing the Brent Trades Council Archive Collection
The Mills Archive Trust – The Wright Records: Preserving Millwrighting Heritage
National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland – From Drawing Board to Slipway: Discovering the Harland & Wolff Ship Plan Archive
The National Museum of the Royal Navy – Fairey Aviation Company Archive
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – Plants and Empire: Unlocking the colonial archive
Sheffield City Archives – Stick ‘Em Up: The Poster Art of Martin F. Bedford
Topolski Memoir Limited – Feliks Topolski Archive: Cataloguing and Preserving a Visual Chronicle of the 20th Century
University of Bristol – Dead Good Guides: The John Fox and Sue Gill Archive Project
Archives Revealed is a partnership between The National Archives, the Pilgrim Trust, the Wolfson Foundation and The National Lottery Heritage Fund. It helps unlock collections across the UK and build the skills needed to care for them into the future.
Paul Ramsbottom, Chief Executive of the Wolfson Foundation, said: “These awards open up rich and wide-ranging archival collections from different communities, expand access and deepen understanding of the stories they hold.”
This is the second round of cataloguing grants awarded since The National Lottery Heritage Fund invested £5 million in the Archives Revealed partnership programme.
The next round opens on Monday 1 September. To find out more, visit Archives Revealed – Portals.
