This guest article was kindly researched and authored by our Archives Volunteer, Beth Higgins. The Elwell Trail is a notable feature of Beverley’s town centre. With the East Riding Archive holding a collection of documents offering insight into his life, and the Beverley Art Gallery housing a collection of his original artworks, it feels fitting […]
Read More A Tribute to Fred: Beverley’s Beloved ArtistThis post was published on Mary Wollstonecraft’s 266th birthday- Happy birthday Mary! In February 2025, The Wollstonecraft Society facilitated an inspirational event called ‘The Wollstonecraft Museum’ for 150 Year Nine pupils of Beverley High School celebrating the life and legacy of Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a writer, philosopher and advocate of women’s rights […]
Read More Celebrating Mary WollstonecraftDid you know that John Edward Champney (1846-1929), the benefactor of funds to build Beverley’s Public Library and Art Gallery, and now honoured in the new name of our Champney Treasure House, had a very close call on his life whilst living and working in Halifax? In 1872, Champney, then aged 26, was working in […]
Read More Champney’s Close CallA Legacy For Beverley & East Yorkshire (Archive ref: DDX1486 . Now available on the Digital Archive) When I first began assessing the archives for items vulnerable to technological changes e.g. cassettes, discs, tapes etc, one of the first things I encountered was a substantial set of VHS video cassette tapes created by an amateur […]
Read More Reg Walker Video CollectionThis year’s Heritage Open Days theme ‘Creativity Unwrapped’ was very evocative of the nature of archives. In the research room, we very carefully unbox and unwrap items from their protective packaging, and in the records themselves, the stories of creative personalities are revealed. To explore this topic, we highlighted the fascinating history of some of […]
Read More Creativity UnwrappedIf 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 WonderlandArt 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 Modelling‘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 NetOur 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, […]
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