Block by Block: Bridlington’s Buildings

On Saturday, 13th September 2025, East Riding Archives brought our ‘Archiverse Minecraft’ activity to East Riding Leisure Bridlington as part of the Heritage Open Days festival. This year’s theme, Architecture, inspired us to delve into our collections for Bridlington-related building plans and photographs. These served as creative prompts for participants to recreate historic structures within […]

Creativity Unwrapped

This 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 […]

Stories of Diversity: Adventures in the Archiverse

Archivist Hannah and Martin Batstone (ERYC Senior Policy Officer) were delighted to show local school pupils around our virtual Archiverse Minecraft world for a fun digital history-making workshop on the 14th of June 2023. Our theme for this workshop was ‘about me’ where we celebrated diversity via storytelling. The stories crafted in this workshop will […]

Building An Archiverse: The East Riding Blockdown

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 […]

OUR DIGITAL HISTORY NEED NOT BECOME A MYSTERY

USING PRESERVICA FOR DIGITAL CONTINUITY In this age of information superhighways and instant access to data on the internet, we’ve grown accustomed to expecting instant information on demand 24/7 and that it will always be there at our fingertips whenever we need it. We take for granted the idea of preservation and assume that, provided […]

Route to expansion

Increasing App Trail coverage through partnerships When the ‘What Was Here?’ app first launched in 2019 it began with a single heritage trail in Beverley, and since then has gradually added more and more content to its offer. Thanks to partnerships with organisations and visitor destinations like Burton Constable Hall, Sewerby Hall & Gardens, the […]

Bridging The Digital Gap

Reflections on my Traineeship by Olivia Northrop (former trainee at East Riding Archives) In October 2019, I started my traineeship with The National Archives’ (TNA) ‘Bridging The Digital Gap‘ scheme, designed to increase digital skills in the Archives sector and also develop my own abilities in this area. I was seconded for 15 months to […]

Arch-I’ve Created: Archives and 3D Modelling

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 […]