Max are pleased to confirm that our teams are still fully operational in line with the latest government guidelines. This includes our off-site team at ONS. We do understand, however, that for many businesses and institutions this is unfortunately still not the case. We continue to wish you well during this difficult period and look forward to somewhat
easier times, hopefully by Spring 2021.
If you would like to schedule a call for a future date, please complete our contact form indicating a preferred day. We have decided to freeze our prices until May 1st 2021 to ensure that our customers are not penalised by the ongoing restrictions. We may decide to
extend this date further still.
In the meantime, please do take a look at our podcasts page . The passion, enthusiasm and insight from our guest speakers has been inspirational, especially given the circumstances.
Search the site:
To be notified as new recordings are released, please subscribe using the button below.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Hugh Petrie has been Heritage Development Officer at the London Borough of Barnet since 1999.
Hugh talks about the formation of Barnet as an administrative area in 1963, and the historical nature of the areas and archives it took on. He then goes on to describe the four sections that the physical archive covers: a reference section (mostly now online); the council minutes and reports; artifacts specific to the area from the former Church Farmhouse Museum; and the library's local history collection started back in 1927.
Hugh also takes us through his four areas of work: preparing materials for heritage use; dealing with inquiries; managing the collection; and digitization. Working in archives from the early days of digitization, Hugh is an enthusiastic advocate for the benefits of digital content and discusses changes that have occurred over that time. He explains how digitization has helped the archive to reach a wider audience, facilitating production and dissemination of YouTube videos and learning materials.
With a keen eye on a sustainable legacy, Hugh shares how digitization helps to preserve the material and how it allows archivists to become research facilitators and guides rather than just "porters" ferrying the physical boxes back and forth.
Website: www.barnet.gov.uk/libraries/local-studies-and-archives
Youtube: Barnet VE Day
Youtube: Finchley Common a History.
The Local Studies Centre has over 10,000 photographs and postcards dating from circa 1900, as well as a small collection of paintings and illustrations from the 19th century. Hundreds can now be viewed at: boroughphotos.org/barnet
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Hugh Petrie has been Heritage Development Officer at the London Borough of Barnet since 1999.
Hugh talks about the formation of Barnet as an administrative area in 1963, and the historical nature of the areas and archives it took on. He then goes on to describe the four sections that the physical archive covers: a reference section (mostly now online); the council minutes and reports; artifacts specific to the area from the former Church Farmhouse Museum; and the library's local history collection started back in 1927.
Hugh also takes us through his four areas of work: preparing materials for heritage use; dealing with inquiries; managing the collection; and digitization. Working in archives from the early days of digitization, Hugh is an enthusiastic advocate for the benefits of digital content and discusses changes that have occurred over that time. He explains how digitization has helped the archive to reach a wider audience, facilitating production and dissemination of YouTube videos and learning materials.
With a keen eye on a sustainable legacy, Hugh shares how digitization helps to preserve the material and how it allows archivists to become research facilitators and guides rather than just "porters" ferrying the physical boxes back and forth.
Website: www.barnet.gov.uk/libraries/local-studies-and-archives
Youtube: Barnet VE Day
Youtube: Finchley Common a History.
The Local Studies Centre has over 10,000 photographs and postcards dating from circa 1900, as well as a small collection of paintings and illustrations from the 19th century. Hundreds can now be viewed at: boroughphotos.org/barnet
To be notified as new recordings are released, please subscribe using the button below.
Max Communications operate a number of other websites including Max Archive Services for services including digital preservation and archive management, Mapchest for online antique map sales and Borough Photos for vintage images from boroughs across the United Kingdom.
To view our full portfolio please visit our portfolio page.
Max Communications provides digitisation and digital archiving services to businesses and institutions across the United Kingdom and beyond.
For full details of services provided by Max Communications please contact us via our contact page or use the details in this footer.
info@maxcommunications.co.uk
020 8309 5445
HEAD OFFICE
3 High Street,
Chislehurst,
Kent.
BR7 5AB.
WOOLWICH OFFICE
2 Gunnery Terrace,
Cornwallis Road,
London,
SE18 6SW.
Registered in England No. 3803572.
This website and its content is copyright of © Max Communications Ltd . All rights reserved.
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.