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Feb 15

New blog (and pilot ‘live chat’ scheme) at the UK National Archives site

The UK National Archives has just launched a blog, to which people from various departments will contribute posts not just about their own work, but about ‘the wider archives sector’.

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• Links: family history

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• Links: feminism

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• Links: general

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• Links: women's history

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  • In the Words of Women
  • Info on "Women in the National Archives" finding aid
  • National Women's History Project (US)
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