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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...
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,...
‘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...
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...
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...
Half Term Family Activities
The museum is open! Once you have discovered and enjoyed the fabulous new exhibitions in the museum then wander into...
AGM 2024
The 200th Annual General Meeting of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society will be held in the Normanby Room of...
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...
Amazing Audios!
Not only do we have books and archive documents but we have a large audio catalogue available for the public...
Meet a volunteer…Margaret
Margaret has been volunteering for one year and was encouraged to join the team when she was carrying out research...
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...
Percy Burnett Collections
In the archives we hold an extensive collection of legal documents, articles and historical recollections of Whitby and the surrounding...
