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 […]

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 […]

COMING SOON: THE EAST RIDING BLOCKDOWN

We are thrilled to be one of ten projects selected across England who have received funding from The Audience Agency to proceed with our new project The East Riding Blockdown: Contemporary Collecting in Minecraft. Building upon (no pun intended!) our overarching COVID-19 experiences collecting project, the East Riding Blockdown will seek to collect youth experiences […]