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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> 1999 sees the 40th Anniversary of the establishment of the Lichfield Record Office. The publication of this revised and extended Guide to its wealth of archive holdings spanning 800 years of history is a fitting way to mark this milestone. The study of the past life of our communities and families depends upon the survival of archives. Archives are the raw materials of historical study the irreplaceable key to our understanding and interpretation of the past. By providing essential evidential and historical information they underpin and support the enjoyment of other aspects of the local and national heritage while also forming a unique unparalleled and rich resource. This Guide will serve to draw attention to the rich diversity of archival holdings at Lichfield and to their importance for the study of the many and varied aspects of family community regional and national history. This Foreword is also an appropriate place to pay tribute to the achievement of all those bodies and individuals who have been associated with the Lichfield Record Office over its first forty years. The establishment of the Lichfield Record Office in 1959 under the joint auspices of Staffordshire County Council the Diocese of Lichfield and Lichfield City Council as the forerunner of the present Lichfield District Council was an early example of partnership working involving the County Council. This close association continues today and is crucial to ensuring