Category: Library and Archives Blog
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Library & Archives Blog – 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...
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Library & Archives Blog – Let’s guide you round Whitby!
Melissa has been cataloguing our guide book archive onto Axiell and has found amusing articles and adverts. The collection features...
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Library & Archives Blog – Whitby Elections 1869
Charles Graffius (our Archivist) has been adding our ‘green boxes’ onto the Axiell catalogue. This particular box called ‘Whitby Town...
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Library & Archives Blog – York Placement students researching diaries & letters
For the second year we have two students from York University working with collections from our Archive. Josie has chosen...
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Library & Archives Blog – Sidney’s stars are shining in our archive
Malcolm, a volunteer, often shows me interesting items that he finds whilst cataloguing collections. This time it is an exquisite...
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Link up with ‘The Link’
More exploring in the archives leads me to our extensive collection of ‘The Link’ magazine; a Parish magazine incorporating the...
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Frank Elgee: The Man of the Moor
“The moors have satisfied my reason, captivated my imagination and elevated my heart.” Frank Elgee When...
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Library & Archives Blog – Whitby Steamships
Eileen (a volunteer) directed me towards A Register of Whitby Steamships 1865-1950, in the archive, which was compiled by Harold...
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Library & Archives Blog – Pictures of India: Meet Henry Simpsons Great Granddaughter
In our archive we have this beautiful scrapbook filled with exquisite drawings of Indians in India scenes from the 1830’s....
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Library & Archives Blog – Castleton & Glaisdale Primary School Year 6 pupils arrive for their Workshop & Tour by train!
We welcomed 11 Year 6 pupils from Castleton & Glaisdale Primary School on Thursday 17th October as they joined us...
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Library & Archives Blog – Heard of Fat Betty, close friend of Old Ralph!
My latest research has been to look at Moorland Crosses & Trods. There are approximately 50 Moorland Crosses scattered about...
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Library & Archives Blog – History in Postcards
I’ve been meaning to do a blog about our postcard collection and after taking one of the albums along to...
