The blog for the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York.
A year has flashed by and the project to index two of the registers of the Archbishops of York, 1576-1650, will very soon come to an end. However, both registers are now fully indexed and the results are available for searching on line at https://archbishopsregisters.york.ac.uk Looking back over the work, it was perhaps a little … Continue reading Archbishops’ Registers Revealed: final thoughts of an indexer
Written by Helen Watt, Marc Fitch Project Archivist As a recent authority states, we have been naming animals for thousands of years; not only did the ancient Egyptians give names to animals, but also the ancient Greeks, for example, Alexander the Great called his horse, Bucephalas (‘ox-head’)1. Apart from horses, other types of animal, particularly … Continue reading Thoughts of an Indexer: I name this cow….
Written by Lydia Dean, YWT Project Archivist Since April, I have been steadily working through the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s fascinating and extensive archive. I have now surveyed over half of the records that have been deposited here at the Borthwick Institute – about 84 boxes, or 570 files! – and along the way have rediscovered … Continue reading Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and Operation Cleft Stick