LEADERS has developed a model internet-based system (demonstrator application) where archive finding aids are linked to transcripts and digital images of archival material. Please give us your feedback by clicking on the email link on the welcome screen.

Selected groups of archive users and professional archivists have also been directly targeted to give more detailed feedback as part of the project's user needs analysis. A full report of our findings will be published on this site.

Two archives held at University College London have been selected as test-beds for the model system:

  • University College London Archive
  • George Orwell Papers

University College London Archive

This is a large archive comprising College Council and Committee records, 1825-2000; records of the Managing Committee and its predecessors, 1831-1968; Senate, Professorial and Academic Board records, 1826-2000; general administration papers, 1824-, legal records, [1824]-1993; financial records, 1825-1929; personnel records, 1826-; estate records, 1825-; departmental records, 1827-[1998], including the Institute of Archaeology, 1884-1998, Petrie Museum, 1814-1992 and Slade School of Fine Art, 1868-1996; student administration records, 1828-; student bodies records, 1833-1992, University College School records, 1829-1905; printed matter, including annual reports, College calendars, and other College publications; illustrative and audio-visual material, including photographs, portraits and film footage.

For the model system the following samples from the archive have been selected:

  • Senate/Professorial/Academic Board records
    • Minutes for the first three meetings in the academic session 1896-1897
    • Minutes for the first three meetings in the academic session 1936-1937
    • Minutes for the first three meetings in the academic session 1966-1967
  • Student Administration records
    • General Student Register 1896-1897 (first 19 entries)

George Orwell Papers

This is a smaller personal archive comprising Orwell's manuscripts and typescripts, 1917-1959; literary notebooks, 1939-[1949]; Spanish Civil War material, 1936-1939; general notebooks, 1943-[1950]; political diaries, 1938-1942; domestic diaries, 1938-1948; letters from Orwell, 1911-1949, letters to Orwell, 1928-1950; associated material, 1935-1949; personalia, 1903-1971; Eileen Blair papers, [1920s]-1967; family papers, 1875-1968; posthumous scripts and screenplays of Orwell's work, 1952-1986; documentary scripts, 1946-1983; audio-visual cassettes, 1983-[1997]; Sonia Orwell papers, 1937-1977; photographs, 1893-1984.

Besides papers accumulated by Orwell and members of his family, the archive includes related items collected by UCL Library in the late 20th century.

For the model system the following samples from the archive have been selected:

  • Manuscripts and Typescripts
    • Notes on the 'Spanish Militias' [1938-1939] (first three pages)
  • Political Diaries
    • Diary for 1938-1939 (first three entries)
  • Domestic Diaries
    • Diary for 1938-1939 (first three entries)
  • Letters from Orwell
    • Letters to Cyril Connolly, Geoffrey Gorer, Frank Jellinek and Sir Herbert Read (total: 10 letters, all complete)

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