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VRC’s Shelby Merritt Reviews the Historic England Archive for ARLIS/NA

Posted by on Monday, October 2, 2017 in HART, News, Technology, VRC, Web.

historicengland_01Discover more about England’s archaeology, historic buildings and social history using the Historic England Archive, an online archive that was recently reviewed by Shelby Merritt, assistant curator, HART’s Visual Resources Center, for ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North America).

The Historic England Archive is an online archive produced by the Historic England organization, a public body of the British government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport. Its mission is to protect England’s historical environment by preserving and listing historical buildings and ancient monuments, a mission achieved in part through the Historic England Archive located in Swindon. The archive’s website, launched in 2010, boasts more than one million catalog entries describing photographs, plans, and drawings of England’s buildings and historic sites. Entries include domestic, public, archaeological, and industrial sites alike. Materials date as early as the sixteenth century, though the bulk of the entries are from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Read more…

 

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