| Notes | We were contacted by the project leader of the Historic
England, “Discovering England’s Burial Spaces”. They are
working in conjunction with the Universities of York and Southampton, the
British Library and the National Archives. Their pilot scheme provides
community groups such as ours with training and toolkits for recording. Then
a central data base will compile burial data from all over the country with the
aim of analysing its historical significance, for example how population trends are linked to local
industry, disease, economic climate etc on a national basis. Over the next few weeks members
of our group will meet with similar projects in North Yorkshire, and with Historic England staff to
plan the rollout of our project, hand in hand with their project. |