During the height of the pandemic, Warwickshire’s heritage community rose to the challenge of lockdown, empowering the Warwickshire online volunteer network - or ‘WOVeN’ - to generate useful content.
“We made adjustments, like everyone during lockdown,” says county archivist Rob Eyre. Events at the record office moved online, along with staff and stakeholder meetings, and a new remotebooking system was introduced. Meanwhile, drawing on their volunteers, staff greatly increased their capacity to digitise, index and transcribe by using Google Drive to share historical data.
“During the first lockdown we completed a database.
