Astounding Inventions – Evolution Of The Book

From Conservation In keeping with this year’s Heritage Open Days theme of Astounding Inventions, I focused the content of my section of the tours on the influence of historical innovations in the development of the book. Of course, this is a potentially vast subject, but using examples from the Archive collection I split the topic […]

Taking Time to Preserve your Documents at Home

Lockdown 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 […]