News
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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...
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Library & Archives Blog – Amazing Audios!
Not only do we have books and archive documents but we have a large audio catalogue available for the public...
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Library & Archives Blog – Meet a volunteer…
Margaret has been volunteering for one year and was encouraged to join the team when she was carrying out research...
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Library & Archives Blog – The Viking: The County School Magazine 1916-1976 (now Caedmon College)
A while back, Janet, one of our amazing volunteers had pointed me in the direction of ‘The Viking’ magazines that...
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Library & Archives Blog – Percy Burnett Collections
In the archives we hold an extensive collection of legal documents, articles and historical recollections of Whitby and the surrounding...
