.... actually a whole lot more. Take a look at the A2A website <http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk> mentioned below and marvel at the number of K/NIBB/S you'll find there. Or search on any other parameter. bfn Alan *A2A Update, February 2002* The latest update of the A2A website at <http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk> took place on Friday 22 February. The electronic equivalent of 37,000 original catalogue pages was added to the A2A database, which now contains 2.2 million catalogue entries from 130 record offices and other institutions across England. These new catalogues include the first from two A2A projects: *Picks and Pistons* in North East England, and the *Web of Science History*. The *Picks and Pistons* finding aids relate to the industrial heritage of the North East, and include letters of George and Robert Stephenson held at Northumberland Record Office, and archives of the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen held by Tyne and Wear Archives Service. The finding aids from the *Web of Science History* project relate to twentieth-century personal papers of various scientists, including the letters and papers of Sir George Lindor Brown held in the Royal Society's archives. The additions also include catalogues of Church of England parish records (and other archives) from two regional projects: *@ the Heart of the Community* in the South West (parish records held in the local authority record offices of Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Plymouth and West Devon, and Wiltshire and Swindon); and *Governing London* (records of London parishes held in the local authority record offices of Hackney, Lewisham, Southwark, Surrey, Tower Hamlets and Wandsworth, and in London Metropolitan Archives). Further catalogues have been added to A2A from the following consortium projects: *Access to Somerset Archives*; *From Landlord to Labourer* in the South East Region; *Landscape and Archives* in the Eastern Region; *Muck and Brass* in the West Midlands; and *Our Mutual Friends in the North* in the North West Region. The new catalogues also include finding aids for a variety of archives held by Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service. In a development which enhances the UK archives network, it is also now possible to link to A2A catalogue descriptions from some of the index entries in the online National Register of Archives, available on the Historical Manuscripts Commission's site at <http://www.hmc.gov.uk/nra/>. Lastly, as of 1 February, over 200,000 searches had been performed on the A2A databasesince May 2001, including 55,700 in January, over double the previous month's figure of 21,800. * * * * * * Sarah J A Flynn Regional Liaison Co-Ordinator, A2A Public Record Office Kew Richmond Surrey TW9 4DU Tel (direct line): 020 8392 5328 Fax: 020 8392 5281 Email: [email protected] www: http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk