Session
1
On-Line
Catalogues
1901 Census
Chip-shaped & Bristol Fashion
Session 2
The
Wessex Film & Sound Archive
The Great War as
Local History
Session 3
Members' Presentations
The Living Archive CD ROM
Computerised Local
History Project
Histories for the
Millennium
Exhibitors
Michael Bell Maps
University of Hertfordshire
Easy Peasy Guides
Dave Ogden Family History Society Books
Research Displays
Cressage Area Research Project
Illustrating a disaster, Hartley 1862
CLUTCH Project
Servant Migration: National Trust Houses in 1881
Friendly Societies Research
Group
Peter Wardley, School of History, University of the West of England & Bristol
Peter gave a review and demonstration of the use of various software applications to assist researchers compile reports. The range of activities included database management, statistical analysis and simple graphics packages to work with maps. His presentation included a demonstration of object linking using Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint for visual presentations. Using Microsoft Paint, a utility that is supplied with Microsoft Windows 3x and 95/98 a demonstration of how to work with bitmap images of maps was given.
The Wessex Film & Sound
Archive
David Lee; Film and Sound Archivist, Hampshire Record Office.
The background of the archive was traced from the association with the Hampshire Archives Trust and the Hampshire Records Office. The archive serves the whole of the Central Southern England except for Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. A Film Archive Forum was created in 1992 and eventually moved into the purpose built accommodation in 1993, and the archive houses a rich range of historic audio and visual material. Delegates were entranced to hear a recording made by Florence Nightingale in 1890 and a recording made by Trumpeter Lamphrey who sounded the charge at the battle of Waterloo on the 25th October 1854.
Video was used to demonstrate our changing heritage with a special film that combined images from an amateur cine film shot in 1948 with more recent video taken in the same areas and interviews with some of the persons who appeared in the original film.
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