England's Past for Everyone: Historic Environment Research

In 2005 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded £3,374,000 to increase access to the resources of the local history research centre, the Victoria County History (VCH), based at the Institute of Historical Research. VCH staff worked closely with local volunteers on projects to produce high quality local history research and to make this information more readily available to a wide audience, including researchers, school children, visitors and local history enthusiasts. Historic environment analysis was conducted by a wide range of organisations and individual experts, including county archaeologists, buildings consultants and archaeological contract units often involving the adoption of multi-disciplinary methodologies. The reports and photographic surveys produced as part of this project are available to browse and download on-line.