Category: Library and Archives Blog
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Whitby and its Polar Bears
If you stand facing the east side of Whitby’s swing bridge, you may spot a large white bear hiding atop...
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Have you heard of the ‘Vessel-cup’ singers?
A curious Christmas custom is the practice of carol singing door-to-door, carrying “Vessel-cups” which were probably originally “Wassail-cups”. The cups...
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Meet a volunteer…Eddie is having a whale of a time!
I’m Eddie, and for the last few months I’ve been working on cataloguing the archives’ material related to the Arctic...
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Mary Linskill: ‘Novel writing is not quite the easy art it may seem…’
When thinking of the great writers associated with Whitby, prolific names such as Bram Stoker, Elizabeth Gaskell or Lewis Carroll...
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Read all about it! Horne in the Archive
I was rifling through the archive looking for a 1925 Scarborough Standard to take to a pop-up in Scarborough and...
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Who was John Dufton?
A lot of the work we do as archivists revolves around the nuts and bolts of keeping a collection of...
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Meet a Volunteer…George
George was a Marine Engineer and later an Engineer at Royal Ordinance Factory Barnbow in Leeds. He is a self-taught...
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Take a trip ‘Down Memory Lane’
Laura, who is on work experience from Prince Henry’s Grammar School Otley, has been looking at the ‘Down Memory Lane’...
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Do you know your fossils?
This week we have a guest Blogger. Star is on work experience for the week and has an interest in...
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Do you know about witch posts?
I have a guest writer on this Blog. Imogen has joined me from Scarborough Sixth Form on Work Experience. Enjoy...
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Roll Up! Roll Up! The Circus is in town
In the archive there is a large flat box labelled ‘Circus Posters’ (WHI/D2/D2.4/3) which features simple, disposable handbills about 23cm...
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A Leeds Beckett Students Diary – Book Maintenance & Conservation
28/01/25 Claire Marris (Archive Development Officer) – meeting with Leeds Becket Students regarding the Applied Humanities Project Our first meeting...
