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 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
Written by Helen Watt, Marc Fitch Project Archivist When David Cressy examined aspects of marriage in Tudor and Stuart times, he asked whether or not love played a part in courtship and marriage then (1). Unlike other historians, such as Laurence Stone, he considered that love was fundamental to marriage in that era and in … Continue reading ‘Till death us do part’?: marriage, love and wills in the Archbishops’ Registers