The East Riding Blockdown first launched towards the end of January 2022 as an experimental action research project working with young people between the ages of 5-16. We are grateful for our funding and ongoing support from The Audience Agency as part of their wider Digitally Democratising Archives initiative, aimed at bringing together archives with […]
Read More Building An Archiverse: The East Riding BlockdownEach year the East Riding Archives and Museums take part in the national Heritage Open Days celebrations, inviting everyone far and wide to be inspired by our collections and offering an insight into behind the scenes. “Astounding Inventions” was this year’s theme, and it proved to be a fascinating topic indeed! Keep scrolling to find out […]
Read More Astounding InventionsWe are thrilled to be one of ten projects selected across England who have received funding from The Audience Agency to proceed with our new project The East Riding Blockdown: Contemporary Collecting in Minecraft. Building upon (no pun intended!) our overarching COVID-19 experiences collecting project, the East Riding Blockdown will seek to collect youth experiences […]
Read More COMING SOON: THE EAST RIDING BLOCKDOWNThe First World War Lives project tells the previously untold stories of over 1,100 local service personnel, researched by our team of volunteers. Using original documents held here at the East Riding Archives, and sources held online such as the census and military records, our project volunteers have uncovered each individual’s life story from birth […]
Read More Online Exhibition: First World War LivesIf you’re dreaming of a white Christmas, look no further. Watch our latest ‘Archive to Armchair’ video where you can take a trip through some wintry scenes from our collections covering Beverley, Little Weighton, Pocklington and Walkington in the early 20th century. Starring: [00:19] Postcard of North Bar Without, south west end from west, Beverley, […]
Read More Walking in a Winter Wonderland(Editor’s note): This article was originally published in August 2020. Under the current Government lockdown restrictions (effective from 4th January 2021, the Archives service remains closed to visitors. We ask that you keep any items safely until such time as we can announce that the service is due to re-open. Thank you. Previously in May, […]
Read More Your East Riding COVID-19 ExperiencesArt is the perfect medium to visualise the past through the piecing together of fragments of history found in an archive. For artists, the collections open up a world of creative projects to interpret and communicate heritage. This Arch-I’ve Created series will look into the various ways that our collections have been re-used in a […]
Read More Arch-I’ve Created: Archives and 3D ModellingThe 8th-10th May 2020 will be a time to commemorate the enormous sacrifices that were made both home and abroad during the Second World War as we mark 75 years since the end of the war in Europe. After years of food rationing and bombing raids, whole communities in Britain came together to mark a […]
Read More Remembering VE Day: 75th Anniversary(Editor’s note): This article was originally published in May 2020. Under the current Government lockdown restrictions (effective from 4th January 2021, the Archives service remains closed to visitors. We ask that you keep any items safely until such time as we can announce that the service is due to re-open. Thank you. We are living […]
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