Category: Library and Archives Blog
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Library & Archives Blog – Tom Watson: the Other Photographer!
Thomas Watson: ‘the senior professional photographer of England’ This week’s blog is about the Victorian photographer Thomas Watson! Often overshadowed...
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Library & Archive Blog – Who adopted a baby orphaned elephant?
Having discovered Alice Smales Diaries in our Archive for a previous Blog post, I have come back to the Smales...
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Library & Archives Blog – West Cliff School Year 5’s discover their Whitby!
On Tuesday June 21st we had a visit from Year 5 pupils from West Cliff School. The pupils arrived at 10...
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Library & Archives Blog – “Keep Calm and Use Your Head”
D-Day Anniversary Blog 6th June marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings. Operation Overlord established a foothold along the...
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Library & Archives Blog – Dracula is alive!
Well…in paper in the Library May 26th is World Dracula Day. This international holiday commemorates the publication of Bram Stokers...
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Library & Archives – Laura looks at Goth Culture
One of the prerequisites of the Heritage Lottery Funding was to encourage student placements from York University. These placements are...
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Library & Archives Blog – Dorothy Ripley inspires our Public History Placement Student
One of the prerequisites of the Heritage Lottery Funding was to encourage student placements from York University. These placements are...
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Library & Archives Blog – Talking Archives!
Sight Support has been one of my focuses: having invested in both a Clover 7S Handheld Video Magnifier and a...
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Library & Archives Blog – Meet a Volunteer… (January 1944 – July 2024)
Sadly, since writing this article Sandra has passed away but her passion lives on in this Blog. She will be...
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Library & Archives Blog – Plentiful Publications!
In cabinet 18, 19 and 20 we have numerous publications relating to North Yorkshire. These are available for the public...
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Library & Archives Blog – Michael Stainsby Archive: Castleton School Logs
I have been gathering resources about Castleton School, as they are coming to visit in June, and discovered the ‘Michael...
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Library & Archives Blog – Ravenscar: The Town That Never Was but is…very interesting!
One of my outreach groups is interested in Ravenscar, so I thought I would have a dig around for information....
