The Newsletter is published quarterly and sent to all members. It includes reports by Cumbria archivists of new acquisitions and activities, reviews of events and publications, news of Friends events and assistance and items of archival interest.
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FOCAS 79 Summer 2011
From the chair
New Carlisle Archives - reports and features
Visit to Keswick Museum
Barrow Archives Conservation Unit and Estonia
Around the Archives - reports on acquisitions,etc
Mike Davies Shiel photo queries
Visit to Jerwood and Wordsworth centre
Research Directory
Cumbria Bookshelf
Useful Information
FOCAS 78 Spring 2011
From the Chair & Editoral
Volunteering opportunities
Days Out: Wordsworth Trust and Keswick
Medieval Furness
Medieval Cumbria: study day for John Todd
Researching mines in Cumbria's other coalfields (research grant report)
Around the Record Offices
Barrow: outreach, accessions
Carlisle: accessions, key events, staff, exhibitions, media activities, collection management, historical research service, preservation and conservation, education
Kendal: accessions, Mike Davies-Shiel archive
Whitehaven: family learning sessions, local studies library, accessions, cataloguing, digitisation, conservation, volunteers.
A Fleming affair revealed in 18th century 'Gay Paris'
WW2 artefacts
Useful information
FOCAS 77 December 2010
Chairman's Report
FOCAS visit to Shap and Keld
White Mischief; Whitehaven
New Carlisle Record Office: visit and photos
Volunteers Barrow Record Office
Around the Record Offices
- Barrow: accessions, outreach, change of opening hours
- Carlisle: archives on the move
- Kendal: accessions
- Whithaven: evening behind bars, loving local history, maisonettes for the Marras, volunteer army winning the battle, accessions
Research grantreport: George Stewart, Burneside's World War II stories, A Book of Remembrance: War Memorials WW II 1939-45
A present with a difference: Historical Research Gift Vouchers
Cumbria Bookshelf
Ian Jones, The Royal Windermere Yacht Club celebrates 150 years: 1860-2010
Matthew Hyde and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness
Members' Day and AGM- a look around new Carlisle Record Office
Useful information
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