Category: Library and Archives Blog
Jet (ooh, ooh-ooh)
For my placement at Whitby Museum, I have been researching the town’s historical jet industry. Reaching its peak in the...
Are you taking the lift?
In our archive we have a box of documents related to the building of the cliff lift here in Whitby. ...
Who owned the ‘Repair Shop’ Captain Cook Voyage Book?
Rob and Margaret have been busy researching our famous Captain Cook Endeavour Voyage Book…yes the one that featured in the...
Leeds Beckett students Blog & Talking Archive Project
The Project Some classmates and I recently visited Whitby Museum from Leeds Beckett University as part of our courses, in...
The Repair Shop came to Whitby Museum!
Eileen (volunteer) got in touch with Christopher Shaw; renowned bookbinder and restoration expert who features on the BBC show The...
Whitby Races! And they’re off…
I love browsing through the digital Whitby Gazette archive in the Museum Library. It never disappoints, but this time I...
Supporting the School Curriculum
Our library and archives are filled with primary and secondary sources that are a fantastic resource for our local schools....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
