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Consultation on acquisition policy (May 2011)

Comments on a new acquisition policy for the University's Archives & Special Collections are invited.  The draft policy can be seen here.  Please email archives @ hud.ac.uk with your feedback by Thursday 19th May.

From history to her story project (March - September 2011)

The project will repair, rehouse, repurpose and relaunch the resource From History to Her story – 90,000 images of primary sources for Yorkshire women’s lives 1100 to the present day.  The website was originally created as one of the nof-digi projects, with funding from the New Opportunities Fund (now the Big Lottery Fund).

Follow progress at http://herstoryproject.wordpress.com/

Project in partnership with West Yorkshire Archive Service and funded by JISC.

Professor David Canter's papers and library (September 2010 - June 2011)

The internationally renowned applied social researcher and crime psychologist is perhaps most widely known as one of the pioneers of "Offender Profiling" being the first to introduce its use to the UK. Professor Canter's conviction that any contributions made by psychologists and other social scientists to the police investigation or the legal process must have an empirical, scientific basis led him to create the discipline of Investigative Psychology.

Earlier in his career, Professor Canter played a crucial role in establishing another sub-discipline: Environmental Psychology.

Professor Canter established the University of Huddersfield's International Research Centre for Investigative Psychology and his extensive library of environmental psychology and some personal papers have been transferred to Archives & Special Collections for public access.  Cataloguing is taking place (scheduled for completion June 2011), funded by the School of Human & Health Sciences.

Setting the pace: Rugby Football League oral history project (February 2010)

Funded by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, an oral reminiscence project brought together 20 children from Lindley Junior School with Billy Thompson, the legendary referee; Simon Foster, son of Trevor Foster; Ikram Butt, who was the first Muslim to play professional rugby; Hilary Steel, one of rugby league's longest serving volunteers; Sam Morton from the RFL Heritage Centre at the George Hotel; Robbie Paul of Bradford Bulls and former New Zealand RFL captain; John Henderson, Ken Senior, Harry Jepson and the former Leeds players, Alan Smith, and Derek Hallas and Ken Rollin, formerly of Wakefield Trinity. Mark Breen, a teacher from Lindley Juniors, accompanied the school children.

Photographs, recordings and other information available from the People's Record website.

Older projects

Partners included: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Huddersfield Local History Library, Kirklees Museums and Galleries and other local heritage groups.

• Lawrence Batley Theatre project
• Buildings of Huddersfield project
• 'Yorkshire Slavery' project
• Folly Hall Mills Project

All these projects were generously funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

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