Derbyshire Motoring Pioneers added to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Here's a press release from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.   You can access this invaluable resource for reliable biographical information by visiting http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/online_information/oxford_biographies/default.asp, with your Derbyshire Library card near at hand. Two Derbyshire pioneers, who helped to shape British motoring in the twentieth century, are included in the latest update to the Oxford Dictionary …

Enlightenment! Derbyshire collections across the pond

Our colleague Anna Rhodes, Assistant Collections Officer at Buxton Museum, is currently undertaking a 4 week research fellowship at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut.   The fellowship was open to curators working in regional museums in the UK who work with British art collections, and as the successful candidate Anna has …