Thanks John
You mistake my intent - or perhaps read more into it than is there.
Northern Arts was just an example - much by the way is held in the Tyne and
Wear Archives I've already established with one of the archivists there though
not through any online source or indexing (someone may want to write a history
but I doubt it's me) - of something that made a connection with a local
politician whose detailed service in government (local, regional etc) is
well-known if not notorious.
The detail of his record as a councillor is as obscure(d) - ward represented,
committees served on, and so on - as any other local councillor save it seems
current serving - and minutes, papers, agendas.
More recent and current materials are held, often on web sites, but as with
other bodies indexing and searching is not good; key documents supporting
recommendations may not appear, or be referenced to appendices that don't
appear. How documents are held and formats variable - pdf, doc, and proprietary
e-mail formats are used in the City of Westminster, for example.
And there-in lies the problem: either the information isn't held, or
maintained, or is held in partial and not always easily found or read.
Best wishes
Dominic
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>________________________________
> From: John Cross <[email protected]>
>To: Dominic Pinto <[email protected]>
>Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>;
>"[email protected]"
><[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2012, 6:28
>Subject: Re: [mySociety:public] Getting information from a defunct authority
>(Mark Goodge)
>
>Dominic
>It sounds like the best way for you to proceed would be to work out
>which committees/public bodies you are interested in which years and
>then see whether records are archived anywhere.
>
>For example the Cumbria Records Office holds records for:
>
>- North West Arts Association. 1975-1976
>- Northern Arts Association. 1975-1976
>- Northern Arts: 1973-1977. 1975-1977, 1976-1978. 1973-1978
>
>http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=025-bdb26&cid=4#4
>
>The V & A hold 12 folders (ACGB/44/7) on the Northern Arts Association
>spanning 1975-1992
>
>http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/wid/ead/acgb/acgb-44.html
>
>I hope this is of some help.
><snip>
>
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