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The Bevan Family Letters - digital archive project

Project start date: 1998 - acquisition of letters

Project end date: 2009 - launch of website with digitized assets made available

Project details


The Bevan Family Letters project is one of many  digital archive initiatives currently underway at The Regency Town House. Others programs we are developing include providing access to historic books and, soon, to 18th and 19th century architectural ornament.

transcribing letters

Objectives

The objectives behind our work are to:

  • Make our collections accessible to the widest possible audience by establishing a text transcription of each document (one that is supported by metadata and photography)
  • Provide information that places the archive materials into a social and historical context
  • Offer resources that promote research related to the records, in particular regarding the history and architecture of Brighton & Hove
  • Develop web-systems that enhance access to and interpretation of our archive materials and which offer re-use capabilities to our project and others

Get involved

There are a number of ways you can get involved with this project:

Help us by making corrections

Send us your contributions

To discuss other ways to get involved contact: curator.bevanletters@rth.org.uk.

Project team

Our digital archives projects rely upon contributions from many volunteers and sponsors, we are grateful to them all for the time and resources they commit. In relation to the Bevan initiative our special thanks go to Belinda Crawley.

The team leaders developing our digital archive projects are:

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The Bevan Family Letters website is a micro-site of The Regency Town House website. The Town House is a grade 1 Listed terraced home of the mid-1820s being developed as a heritage centre and museum to focus on the architecture and social history of Brighton & Hove between the 1780s and 1840s. For further information about the Town House project see http://www.rth.org.uk.