June 2015:

 

• Lists of Masters, Clerks, Treasurers and Beadles.

 

• All issues of Preserve Harmony back to Issue #1.

 

• Photographs and details of Company Artworks.

 

• An 'Articles' section to contain published pieces about the Archive project.

 

• The Ephemera section expanded to include The Crews' Gavel, Letter from Casals, Coronation Ticket, The Collard Snuff Box, Beethoven's Scissors and other small items.

 

 

May 2015:

 

• Illustration and researched history of The Prize Grace by Charles Wood.

 

• Details, history and an audio clip of Percy Godfrey's Coronation March and its presentation on a Silk Square.

 

• Preserve Harmony loaded back to Issue #39.

 

• Illustrated piece about Benjamin Britten receiving the Honorary Freedom of the Company.

 

• Letters from Constant Lambert and Herbert Howells and other small items in the Ephemera section.

 

 

 

April 2015:

 

• All Court Minute Books available through to 1918.

 

• Details, history, manuscript and an audio clip of Edward German's Masque from 'As you Like It'.

 

 

 

March 2015:

 

• Website now published to Google and properly 'online'.

 

• Court Minute Book pages now available from 1772 up to 1897.

 

• Video and audio clips for Elgar's Elegy and Marching Song, Sullivan's Lost Chord and Howells' Hymn For St Cecilia.

 

• Photograph of the St Cecilia portrait as it hangs in Guildhall Art Gallery.

 

• A new section of Links to relevant and associated websites.

 

• History and illustrated details of the Westrup Library in the Guildhall School.

 

• A Letter from Richard Strauss.

 

• The Company Handbooks of 1902, 1950 and 2000 are presented in a new 'Publications' section.

 

 

 

February 2015:

 

• Initial images of Elgar's Elegy and Marching Song, Sullivan's Lost Chord, and Herbert Howells' Hymn For St Cecilia into a new 'Treasures' section.

 

• Photographs of Court Minute Book pages continue to appear.

 

 

 

January 2015:

 

• The Court agrees to the setting up of an official WCOM Archive website.

 

• The 'operational' website address is established as www.wcomarchive.org.uk

 

• Images of the Court Minute Books begin to be loaded in large numbers.

 

 

 

December 2014:

 

• A 'trial' or development website is established.

 

• The first 56 photographs of Court Minute Book pages appear on the website.

 

 

 

November 2014:

 

• A meeting takes place at the Institute of Historical Research (part of University College London), where it was decided to consider website technology as a method of presenting archive materials.