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- Culture Secretary Maria Miller said: "The National Archives' digitised First World War unit diaries will allow us to hear the voices of those that sacrificed their lives and is even more poignant now there are no living veterans who can speak directly about the events of the war."
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War diaries were kept for two main reasons: to provide an accurate record of operations for preparing the official history of the war. to collect information that would help make improvements...
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Jan 14, 2014 · The first batch of 1,944 digitised diaries, external detail the experiences of three cavalry and seven infantry divisions in the initial wave of British army troops deployed in 1914.
- Why digitise?
- Starting Conservation: Initial Survey
- Using Different Methods
- Holding History in Your Hands
Conservators play an important part in digitisation. Documents can be handled multiple times during the process; we ensure they are protected. To reflect this, The National Archives is unique in having a separate team of qualified conservators who work specifically on digitisation projects as part of our Digitisation Services department. The team i...
Our first step was to undertake a condition survey of the collection to understand the various materials and how they had fared over time. Modern wartime papers tend to be poor quality due to the paucity of available raw material; WO 95 is no different. In this sense, the material starts at a disadvantage. Despite this, and given that many were wri...
Once the results of the survey had been analysed, the conservation team researched and tested other conservation repair techniques to see if we could improve efficiency while maintaining our high standards. This research resulted in testing a method set out in a recent peer-reviewed conservation journal which involves pre-applying adhesive (in this...
The more recent phases of the project to digitise the remainder of the series have been made up of smaller selections of approximately 800 boxes at a time. As we predicted, the treatment requirement reduces significantly with each phase, as the documents have been handled much less frequently. The conservators have very strict deadlines for treatme...
National Archives is making the first batch of digitised First World War unit war diaries from France and Flanders available online via its First World War 100* portal.
The British National Archives has digitized and posted online about 1.5 million pages of diaries from soldiers and units that fought in World War I.
Jan 14, 2014 · The National Archives’ digitised First World War unit diaries will allow us to hear the voices of those that sacrificed their lives and is even more poignant now there are no living...
Nov 8, 2015 · The WW1 diary corpus consists of scanned PDF files of official unit operational diaries and appendices, a day-by-day institutional record of events on the ground. The Army’s intention in keeping such records was twofold: first, to ensure there was an accurate record on which to base official history, and second, to help create a bank of ...
