| Administrative History | Peakland Heritage was a web-based learning resource focusing on the early history of the Peak District, before the creation of the National Park. It was created by Derbyshire County Council's Libraries & Heritage Department in partnership with the Peak District National Park Authority and funded by the British Library Cooperation and Partnership programme. Additional funding was obtained from Resource.
The project was submitted to British Library in January 2001, received approval in May and was launched on 20 March 2002.
The main purpose was to open up access to original material held in the partners' collections. It included illustrations, maps and text from the British Library Departments of Maps, Newspapers and Early Printed Books, Derbyshire County Council's Libraries, Museums and Record Office and Peak National Park Authority. Independent museums, local historical societies and private individuals also contributed material to the site.
There were three main strands to the site:
1. An easily navigable topic based history of the area. This used extracts of original text linked by new writing, and reminiscences of local people.
2. Digitised images displayed in galleries and used to illustrate the text.
3. The core of the Website was a bibliography, searchable by key word, of material relevant to all aspects of the area's history.
In 2016 the Peakland Heritage website was taken off the internet. It was removed for a couple of reasons: firstly no-one in IT had been able to get into the website for a number of years, and therefore some of the information on the site, such as opening hours, had become very out of date. Secondly, because it was such an old site, it presented a security issue to the council’s servers. |