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Newsletter

The Newsletter is published quarterly and sent to all members.  It includes reports by Cumbria archivists of new acquisitions and activities, reviews of events and publications, news of Friends events and assistance and items of archival interest.  For further details or items for insertion, please contact the Editor

FOCAS 79 Summer 2011

  1. From the chair
  2. New Carlisle Archives - reports and features
  3. Visit to Keswick Museum
  4. Barrow Archives Conservation Unit and Estonia
  5. Around the Archives - reports on acquisitions,etc
  6. Mike Davies Shiel photo queries
  7. Visit to Jerwood and Wordsworth centre
  8. Research Directory
  9. Cumbria Bookshelf
  10.  Useful Information
FOCAS 78 Spring 2011
  1. From the Chair & Editoral
  2. Volunteering opportunities
  3. Days Out: Wordsworth Trust and Keswick
  4. Medieval Furness
  5. Medieval Cumbria: study day for John Todd
  6. Researching mines in Cumbria's other coalfields (research grant report)
  7. Around the Record Offices
  8. WW2 artefacts
  9. Useful information

FOCAS 77 December 2010

  1. Chairman's Report
  2. FOCAS visit to Shap and Keld
  3. White Mischief; Whitehaven
  4. New Carlisle Record Office: visit and photos
  5. Volunteers Barrow Record Office
  6. Around the Record Offices
  7. Research grant report: George Stewart, Burneside's World War II stories, A Book of Remembrance: War Memorials WW II 1939-45
  8. Cumbria Bookshelf
  9. Members' Day and AGM- a look around new Carlisle Record Office
  10. Useful information