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 Welcome!
In this, the latest e-newsletter from the Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service. The Annual Report is now available online revealing some of the varied work carried out by the service over the last year. There is also news about our Place Name Study Day, the launch of the new touring Puppet exhibition, the latest acquisitions at the William Salt Library and two projects at Stoke Archives; Doulton and a new digital oral history resource, Revealing Voices.
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 Annual Report
The Annual Report for
the Archive & Heritage Service is now available to read online after it was
approved by the Joint Archives Committee on 15 June. 2016-2017 was a really exciting
year for the service with the thrilling news of a stage 1 grant from the
Heritage Lottery Fund for the Staffordshire History Centre project.
Learn more
about the work of the whole team, our volunteers, and the other projects we
have delivered this year. Get an insight into the collections we have
received during the year ranging from the 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers
archive to the collection about the Silverdale Community Play and Quilt by
reading our report here
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Place Name Study Day
Saturday 15 July 10.30 to 4pm
What do Squitchy Piece, Lion's Paw and a Roll of Tobacco all have in common? Join us to find out the latest developments from the Staffordshire Place Name Project. You will hear from volunteers involved in the project together with speakers from the Institute of Name Studies. Expect place name puzzles, discussions on dialect, recent research and plenty of information on how to get involved. To book telephone 01785 278380 or visit the website
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Puppet Countdown!
It is only three weeks until our new exhibition, Puppets
on Parade, opens at The Brampton Museum in Newcastle-under-Lyme and we are
getting very excited.
The exhibition designs from Vertigo look fantastic and
the puppets are getting ready for their grand tour. The exhibition is at The
Brampton from 22nd July-1st September and will move to the Ancient High House,
Stafford on 12th September. The exhibition will then tour to
museums across Staffordshire and pop up elements will appear in libraries and
community centres.
For more information on the exhibition contact Natalie Heidaripour, Museum Resilience Project Officer.
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 New Additions at the William Salt Library
Recently the last of the annual book order arrived at the Library.
This year’s purchases include a number of books relating to the First
World War (see picture), biographies of famous and not so famous Staffordshire
people including Ralph de Tunstall Sneyd, William Perry, William Bernard
Ullathorne, Claudia Hyde, Dave Heeley, Steve Bull, Jeff Astle, Denise Lewis,
Matthew Boulton, Walter Savage Landor. In addition other Staffordshire
related subjects covered include railways, canals, military history, pottery,
football, rugby, the Shirley Family, murders, the Staffordshire Hoard, folklore
along with the rather intriguingly titled book ‘How to Survive in
Staffordshire’. For more information contact Dominic Farr
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 Beginning to Describe Doulton
Thanks to funding from the National
Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives, the Doulton Described Cataloguing
Project is now underway at Stoke-on-Trent City Archives. Archivist Louise
Ferriday is currently busy sorting and organising the records of the famous
pottery manufacturer Royal Doulton ready for cataloguing. Making this archive
accessible is an enormous and challenging job and will take in excess of a year
to complete, so we shall have to ask for your patience! The
collection charts the manufacturer’s development from its Lambeth roots,
followed by its establishment in the Potteries in 1877 in Nile Street, Burslem,
right through to the closure of the Burslem factory in 2005. We will keep
you updated about what we discover along the way. For more information contact Stoke City Archives
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 Revealing Voices
“The first words of the first
recording I listened to were spoken by an elderly lady, interviewed about 40
years ago. I was born in eighteen hundred
and seventy-nine, she said, and I nearly fell off my seat ... by the time I’d heard her memories of going
into service as a girl and the village bonfire celebrations for Queen
Victoria’s jubilee, I was hooked.” Jane, volunteer.
A growing team of volunteers are having the opportunity to be
the first to listen to a fascinating collection of archive recordings made by Potteries born Arthur Wood and unheard
for 30-40 years. Arthur Wood had an energetic and visionary
approach to the potential for local radio for local audiences. With Radio
Stoke’s permission, after his retirement he kept and carefully preserved
hundreds of hours of reel-to-reel tapes of local interest programmes.
“Revealing Voices” is digitising and cataloguing several
hundred of the recordings to preserve them and create an “Arthur Wood
Collection” that people will be able to explore through Stoke-on-Trent City
Archives and the Staffordshire Pasttrack website.
“Revealing Voices” is supported Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service and Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service, with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and led by Potteries Heritage Society.
If you would like to volunteer email isla@revealing-voices.org.uk or telephone 07743548313. You can also follow the project @PotteriesHSoc or visit the website
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