May 2016 – Borthwick Institute Blog

Revealing the Registers: thoughts of an indexer

Posted by sallyanneshearn on 18 May 2016

Written by Helen Watts, Marc Fitch Fund Project Archivist Our Marc Fitch Fund Project Archivist, Helen Watt, gives us some thoughts and reflections following the completion of initial work in indexing one of our Archbishops’ Registers and attempts to answer an old indexers’ question – can you ever really be sure when using a previous … Continue reading Revealing the Registers: thoughts of an indexer

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust: 70 years on

Posted by sallyanneshearn on 2 May 2016

Written by Lydia Dean, YWT Project Archivist On 2nd May 1946, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, then called Yorkshire Naturalists’ Trust, was legally incorporated. Founded in a post-war context, where the Government was keen to provide a ‘vision of a brighter Britain’1, the Trust’s first objective was “to protect places and objects of natural beauty or of … Continue reading Yorkshire Wildlife Trust: 70 years on