The ‘Snail Water’ (archive-ref DDHI/58/1/1) It’s now 205 years since the Battle of Waterloo, that famous victory over the ‘old enemy’ France. As a nation we tend to revel in the traditional rivalry between the British and the French but, thankfully, today this is a friendly one. Nevertheless, we still enjoy drawing comparisons between our […]
Read More 17th Century ‘Smoothie’From the 6th July 2020 the East Riding Archives service will be using the new Archives Card scheme. Readers will need to be registered to consult the archives in the research room. The CARN (County Archives Research Network) reader’s ticket scheme expired on the 31st March 2020 and was replaced with the Archives Card. Please […]
Read More New ‘Archives Card’ Schemeby Naomi Peach Volunteer and History Graduate (guest contributor) As a keen baker and recent history graduate, the idea of trying my hand at some recipes from the East Riding Archives seemed right up my street. After perusing some of the recipes on the blog, I decided to give Mrs Wilson’s Gingerbread (1907) (archive-ref DDX1882/1) […]
Read More Mrs Wilson’s Gingerbread (1907)Art 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 ModellingUsing historical criminal justice records by Professor Helen Johnston Professor of Criminology, University of Hull (guest contributor) During 2017 and 2018, we led a collaborative public engagement project funded by the AHRC called ‘Our Criminal Ancestors‘ and we continue to work with a range of archives, museums and heritage organisations to engage the public in […]
Read More Our Criminal AncestorsLockdown has had many of us finally getting around to clearing out lofts, sheds and bookshelves and rediscovering family albums. I’ve certainly been forced to confront some overflowing cupboards and drawers although I have to admit any space I managed to free up has only encouraged me to buy more books. While we turn to […]
Read More Taking Time to Preserve your Documents at HomeLast year we gave you an app to turn back time. A virtual ‘time machine’ on your smartphone or tablet device to let you see what used to be at various locations across Hull and East Yorkshire, using historic photos. Pretty cool stuff – but what if we told you that was only half the […]
Read More Map To The Past, and Back To The FutureAnn Schofield’s Recipe for ‘Lemon Biscuits’, 1754 (archive-ref DDSD/643) When you work in a place like East Riding Archives, you can’t help but look into some of your own genealogy, or ‘family history’ as it were. It’s partly because doing so is good training for helping others to trace their ancestors, but also having all […]
Read More Risk It For A Biscuit‘Trawling Through Time: The Story Of Cook, Welton and Gemmell, Shipbuilders’ tv documentary goes online! Last summer it was previewed to a full-house at Beverley’s Parkway Cinema, then in November it was broadcast on That’s TV Humber, and published on DVD shortly afterwards. Now, ‘Trawling Through Time: The Story Of Cook, Welton & Gemmell’ documentary […]
Read More Casting A Wide Net‘VE Day: The Lost Films’, Channel 5 documentary, Friday 8th May, 7pm (including footage by Ernest Symmons, archive ref DDX1329, and DDX1369) I once did some work on the films of Ernest Symmons, one of the early pioneers of filmmaking, and founder of Beverley Picture Playhouse (20th February 1911). Born in 1872, he was originally […]
Read More Lost and Found: Ernest’s Films Get An Airing
