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Spotlight on the Retreat Archive: A Window on the 19th Century Pharmacist

Written by Jane Rowling, Retreat Digitisation Assistant This is the first in a series of blog posts celebrating the Retreat digitisation project as it nears completion. Over the last two and half years, staff at the Borthwick have been working through the Retreat archive, updating the catalogue, preparing the documents for digitisation, carrying out conservation … Continue reading Spotlight on the Retreat Archive: A Window on the 19th Century Pharmacist

The Nature of the Job II: Structuring the archive of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

Written by Lydia Dean, YWT Project Archivist In my last blog about my project cataloguing the archive of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, I wrote about how I got started with the survey of this archive. In this instalment, I’ll be writing about my experiences in developing a structure for the archive, why it’s important and … Continue reading The Nature of the Job II: Structuring the archive of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

Up and AtoM: The Borthwick Institute Goes To South Korea

In September I was fortunate enough to present a paper on the Borthwick’s new online catalogue at the International Council on Archives Congress 2016.  Held every four years, the ICA Congress is a unique opportunity for record keeping professionals from all over the world to meet and share ideas and achievements and discuss the challenges … Continue reading Up and AtoM: The Borthwick Institute Goes To South Korea

The nature of the job: surveying the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust archive

Written by Lydia Dean, YWT Project Archivist So, I’m about halfway through the 12 months of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust archive project – and what a six months it’s been! The time is going quickly; summer was filled with continuing the survey of deposited material, drafting and re-drafting an archival structure and finishing off my … Continue reading The nature of the job: surveying the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust archive

Archbishops’ Registers Revealed: final thoughts of an indexer

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

Thoughts of an Indexer: I name this cow….

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….

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and Operation Cleft Stick

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