News
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Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society AGM
The 202nd Annual General Meeting of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society (registered charity number: 1171266) will be held in...
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Supporting the School Curriculum
Our library and archives are filled with primary and secondary sources that are a fantastic resource for our local schools....
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Bird Quiz
As we clean our cases over winter we get to take a closer look at some of the collection. Take...
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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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Whitby House Quiz
A bit of fun and a special treat from our photography curator a quiz of Whitby houses through the years...
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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’...
