Cash crisis puts past’s future in jeopardy

ic CheshireOnline reports senior custodians of Britain’s historical archives are up in arms about the poor financial situation threatening the nation’s records.

Despite a burgeoning interest in history – and family and community history in particular – many of the country’s 200-plus archives are struggling for cash to provide basic public access to their collections.

The cash crisis jeopardising archive services has left countless records un-catalogued or not stored in the right environmental conditions.