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Library & Archives Blog – PENfriend 2: Supporting people with Sight Loss
In the library we are striving to create a resource that is inclusive for all and one of the areas...
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Library & Archive Blog – Lealholm Primary School come for a visit…
On Thursday 21st November Mrs Parkes, teacher at Lealholm Primary School, brought 9 Year 6 pupils to visit our Library...
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Library & Archives Blog – Meet a volunteer…
Over the past couple of weeks I have been on outreach sessions talking about a few of the churches in...
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Library & Archives Blog – Have you heard of Tin Ghaut?
There is a new exhibition in the library dedicated to the famous Tin Ghaut. Emma, one of our sixth form...
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200th AGM of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society
The 200th annual general meeting of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society was held at 2pm on Sunday 25th of...
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Library & Archives Blog – Waves of Royal National Lifeboat Institution information (RNLI)…
The RNLI are celebrating 200 years! We have a variety of archival documents and books to read featuring heroic stories,...
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Library & Archives Blog – ‘Our Lasses’ are in the Library
I thought I would search out some of the books we have in the library celebrating ‘Our Lasses’ and decided...
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Library & Archives – Adding collections on Axiell…interested?
Axiell is our new management system we are using to catalogue our collections. This is a huge undertaking and we...
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Library & Archives Blog – Valentines Day: The Death of Captain Cook!
It is Valentines Day and I discovered that Captain James Cook died on this day in 1779, unfortunately a rather...
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Library & Archives Blog – Half Term Family Activities
The museum is open! Once you have discovered and enjoyed the fabulous new exhibitions in the museum then wander into...
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AGM 2024
The 200th Annual General Meeting of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society will be held in the Normanby Room of...
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Library & Archives Blog – Churches and Religious Establishments of Whitby
I have been reading around the churches and religious establishments of Whitby for future outreach sessions…there is a lot! In...
