Using 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 AiringThe 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 […]
Read More The East Riding Covid-19 ArchiveOur newsletter this month contains information on how we are keeping in touch with everyone during these difficult and unusual times. We even mention this very Blog! You can also find out about some of the varied collections that are kept in the Archives. There is the Beverley Voluntary Service Hospital Helps scrapbook from the 1940s, […]
Read More May’s NewsletterIntroducing the East Riding Archives Blog … In these times of lockdown it’s important now, more than ever, that we bring you online content based on our amazing documentary heritage collections while we await the day when we can welcome you back into our home at the Treasure House in Beverley, East Yorkshire. Even though […]
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