Welcome to Test Page for UB History Document Project
Copy of UB History Site December 2024
See this link for copy of the temporarily closed UB History site
NB Some of the links are not working but you get the gist
September 2023. A project for the Upper Broughton History Group to do a feasibility study on publishing an archive of legal documents from the 1600’s to 1800’s. A large metal chest containing the documents had been stored in a garage for many years. When opened the documents were in exceptional condition considering their age. There has been an amount of media and academic interest in this project already.
Volunteers have spent a lot of time extracting names, dates, places from the handwritten documents. Then photographing and cataloguing the bundles of documents as they came out of the chest.
What they are looking to do here is to publish the results both as online database along with with links to the photographs of the original handwritten documents before they are handed over to local archives.
Note the seals at the bottom of the document and the wavy line at the top where it was cut in this shape so both parties had parts of the original and they would align showing proof of ownership.
Take a look at the database file…
This is an initial test copy and should be seen as such
Link to ‘Google Sheets’ database file opens external site.
NB The only bundle of photographs currently uploaded are those for Record 032 you can click the link at record 32 in the above sheet or Take a look here, links to external site.
Access a Read-Only version of the data. Database File This links to Google Sheets
