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Latest News (February 2012): The new version of From History to Herstory has been designed by the University of Huddersfield and is now available to use. The final report is now available.

This project will repair, rehouse, repurpose and relaunch the resource From History to Her story – 90,000 images of primary sources for Yorkshire women’s lives 1100 to the present day.

An early project in the New Opportunties Fund created From History to Her Story, a website recording Yorkshire women's lives through digitised images.

With the help of the original creators at the West Yorkshire Archive Service, the University of Huddersfield is updating and refreshing the site.

Objectives

1. To provide full, free access to 90,000 images of historical documents focusing on the lives of Yorkshire women from 1100 AD to the present day.

2. To make the existing digitised images searchable via metadata presented in an online catalogue using Calm software (and front-end CalmView) provided by Axiell.

3. To create image galleries and packaged learning resources for teaching and learning in higher education at undergraduate level.

4. To refresh, update and expand the existing website overview and basic image galleries at From History to Her Story. This will include development of crowd-sourcing tools to capture users’ research, responses and comments.