The blog for the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York.
Written by Rosie Denton and Sally-Anne Shearn. Part One can be read here. ‘I want to run over & have a talk with you sometime. I have been feeling more and more lately that I oughtn’t to be here.’ So began the letter that was to change the lives of Lawrence and his mother forever. … Continue reading Lawrence Rowntree – A Life in Letters (Part Two)
Written by Rosie Denton, Archives Trainee. Those of you based in York may have already heard of Lawrence Edmund Rowntree, the subject of a recent exhibit at York Castle Museum which was covered in the York Press. For those to whom the name is unfamiliar, Lawrence (or Laurie as he was always known) was the … Continue reading Lawrence Rowntree – A Life in Letters (Part One)