#PhotoFriday – December Digest

It's time once again for our monthly round up of #PhotoFriday tweets, where we look at images from the local studies collections across the county, which you can find on www.picturethepast.org.uk . December is, for many, party season! So we started off our December tweets with a visit to the Drill Hall in Derby on the 25 …

#PhotoFriday – November Digest

It's time once again for our monthly round up of #PhotoFriday tweets, where we look at images from the local studies collections across the county, which you can find on www.picturethepast.org.uk . For our first #PhotoFriday image in November we did something different and asked for some help. We sometimes get material to add to our collections …

November news from the Local Studies Library

Lynda tells us what is happening in our Local Studies library this month: This month we are happy to open our 'community room' which is a warm space for Derbyshire residents and their families to use now that the weather is getting colder. The room, which was formally one of our meeting rooms, now has …

British Pudding Day

November 9th is British Pudding Day, which gives you the perfect excuse (if any excuse is needed) to indulge in arguably the best course of any meal. I would say that the most famous Derbyshire pudding, and definitely one of my favourites, is Bakewell Pudding but I wanted to try something new. So I looked …

Bonfire, treason and…Thor Cakes

Bonfire night will soon be here and is a perfect excuse to try another Derbyshire recipe. So I looked in one of my favourite books - Derbyshire Cookery by Janet Arthur - and very soon spotted a recipe for Thor cakes, named after the God of thunder. Very apt for 5th November. Looking at the …

#PhotoFriday – October Digest

It's time again for our monthly round up of #PhotoFriday tweets, where we look at images from the local studies collections across the county, which you can find on www.picturethepast.org.uk . We started off our October tweets by combining the themes of In Print for History Begins at Home and the Explore Your Archive theme of Community …

October news from the Local Studies Library.

In our monthly look at what's been going on in our Local Studies Library, Archives Assistant Lynda Tomkins explains the theme of our latest display. This month's History Begins at Home topic is ‘In Print’, a very fitting subject for a local studies library as we don't just have books, but lots of different printed …

#PhotoFriday Digest – September

It's time again for our monthly round up of #PhotoFriday tweets, where we look at images from the local studies collections across the county, which you can find on www.picturethepast.org.uk . We started off the month by looking at the well-known (pun intended) tradition of well dressing. September sees the last examples of this for the year …

September news from the Local Studies library.

Whilst Covid restrictions closed the Local Studies Library to the public, Local Studies staff took the opportunity to make some minor changes. Here Archives Assistant, Lynda Tomkins describes what went on behind the scenes. The need for social distancing has meant rearranging the computers in our Computer Room. This has given you much more space …

#PhotoFriday Digest – August

Once again it's time for our monthly round up of #PhotoFriday tweets, where we look at images from the local studies collections across the county, which you can find on www.picturethepast.org.uk . We started off our August tweets with the theme of Lazy Days for History Begins at Home. We joined John Brackenbury and the Berwick family …