Shropshire Routes to Roots

About the Shropshire Routes to Roots project

The Shropshire Routes to Roots project began in July 2003, with the aim of digitising local history and archive material for use by teachers, school children and lifelong learners.The project had six team members based at Shropshire Archives and Oswestry Library and ran until July 2004.

During the course of the project, the team addressed the following issues:

• Creating greater access to heritage materials in rural areas
• Giving worldwide access to materials held in local, isolated communities
• Empowering individuals and groups to present their own material online
• Encouraging exploration of local history and landscape stimulated by virtual visits

Digitised local history sources from Shropshire Archives and Oswestry Library are combined with background research in specially compiled learning packages that are freely available on the Shropshire Routes to Roots website. Alongside other content, learning packages have been compiled as part of the project, focusing on the following areas:

1. World Wars One and Two
2. Victorian crime and detection
3. Industrial development
4. Transport and communication
5. Changes in people and landscape
6. The story of writing
7. Medicine and health

The Shropshire Routes to Roots website is only the starting point of discovery and users of the site are encouraged to explore further, either virtually via internet links and resources, or in person through libraries, archives, other sources, or by visiting the county.

If you have got any comments or questions about what you have seen on the Routes to Roots website please follow the link to the Who to contact page.

Marketing

You can open a version of the Shropshire Routes to Roots promotional leaflet (Opens in a new window). This file is in Adobe PDF format, so if you do not have it already you will need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader (Opens in a new window).

Shropshire Routes to Roots was an initiative for the AWM Libraries Challenge which was jointly-funded by Advantage West Midlands and funded and managed by MLA West Midlands.

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