Tomorrow's History is a major new resource for local studies in the North East of England.
Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, a partnership of libraries, museums and archives in the North East region are involved in the Tomorrow's History project to open up twenty-first century access to their collections.
Tomorrow's History will be delivered through networks to schools, colleges and libraries throughout the region - and nationally and globally over the World Wide Web.
Managed by Information North, the regional agency for library co-operation, the project will be digitising tens of thousands of images and documents from the collections, linking these to modern and historic Ordnance Survey mapping, providing links to existing indexes, catalogues and content, and stimulating one hundred new Community History initiatives for the new Millennium.
A pilot site created early in 1999 contains over one thousand images from partners' collections and a selection of film clips from the Northern Region Film & TV Archive. Partners are now engaged in the mammoth task of creating the thousands of pages of images, indexes, information and mapping to be going on-line in 2001.
Find out more about the initiative and view the work in progress via the link on this page:
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