The Great Parchment Book blog

London Metropolitan Archives is pleased to announce that the Great
Parchment Book Blog has been nominated in the Arts and Culture
category of the UK Blog Awards 2016.

The Public Vote has opened and it would be really great if
colleagues felt able to support the Great Parchment Book project and
the blog by voting to enable us to progress in the awards.

Voting is open until Monday, 25 January 2016 at 9pm, but don't delay
and vote for the Great Parchment Book blog now at

    <URL:http://blogawardsuk.co.uk/ukba2016/my-entry/great-parchment-book>

Why vote for us?

The blog aims to foster interest in the cutting edge technologies
which are already revolutionising access to archives and
manuscripts, to inform and educate about conservation and the role
of digital imaging, and to contribute to developments in the digital
humanities, all of which have been evident in the Great Parchment
Book project:

    <URL:http://www.greatparchmentbook.org>

It also puts the Great Parchment Book of The Honourable The Irish
Society in its rightful place at the heart of the study of the
history of the 17th century Plantation of Ulster and links it
directly to other sources, current academic scholarship and other
research.

Other awards:

The Great Parchment Book has been nominated for a number of awards
since its inception, evidence of the strength and depth of the
project:

    European Succeed Award 2014 (for digitisation focussing on
    textual content):  Commendation of Merit.

    The Pilgrim Trust Award for Conservation 2015: shortlisted.

    Royal Historical Society Public History Prize 2015: nominated.

Thank you for your support and interest.


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