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Environmental Monitoring11 April 2024
The Conservation Team plays a key role in the protection of the collections held within the West Yorkshire Archive Service. Though our studio is based in Wakefield at the West … Continue reading Environmental Monitoring
Famous Goats of Calderdale6 January 2024
There are few things in history that capture the imagination more than a famous goat. On this blog, we could talk about beautiful architectural sketches of lost buildings, the pedigree … Continue reading Famous Goats of Calderdale
‘ye Sumber House on Clay Bank’ and other works: Using archival evidence in the Vyner papers to research William Aislabie’s 18th-century designed landscape at Kirkby Fleetham27 October 2023
Thanks to our guest blogger Gail Falkingham of the Yorkshire Gardens Trust for writing this post. The Vyner of Studley Royal family and estate records held by the West Yorkshire … Continue reading ‘ye Sumber House on Clay Bank’ and other works: Using archival evidence in the Vyner papers to research William Aislabie’s 18th-century designed landscape at Kirkby Fleetham
Exciting new Anne Lister diary entries!30 June 2023
Does anybody want to know what Anne got up to in her missing five days between the entry on the 15th December 1833 and her entry on the 21st December … Continue reading Exciting new Anne Lister diary entries!
Anne Lister Makes Some Shoppings22 June 2023
A guest blog post by Feona Hamilton, Anne Lister Diary Transcription Project Codebreaker Anne made several trips to London in order to ‘make some shoppings’ to use her own phrase. … Continue reading Anne Lister Makes Some Shoppings
Moving the WYAS Kirklees office2 May 2023
As you may be aware the WYAS Kirklees office has been closed to the public since 1 July 2022 to allow the team to prepare Kirklees’ irreplaceable archive collections to … Continue reading Moving the WYAS Kirklees office