#PhotoFriday – January 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 . January's theme for History Begins at Home was 'the 1960s', so for our first #PhotoFriday tweet of 2023, we travelled back to Buxton to 1965. …

Buffalo Bill and His Wild West Show in Derbyshire

If you mention the name of William Cody, aka Buffalo Bill, then it might conjure up images of America’s Old Wild West, rather than the rolling hills of Derbyshire. Whilst touring around Europe the famous Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show made many visits to Derbyshire, including Derby, Chesterfield, Glossop, and Ilkeston. With cowboys, stagecoaches, horses, …

Mary Vincent a friend to the World War One Soldiers of Belper

Today's post comes from Adrian Farmer, Heritage Coordinator at Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site and Chairman of the Belper Historical Society, who has been helping us to identify photographs in our D3638 collection for the English Sewing Cotton Company Limited. Whilst looking through some Belper-related photographs in the Record Office, we came across some …

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 …

#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 …

The camera never lies…

The 19th of August 2022 is World Photography Day (also known as World Photo Day) where photographs of all kinds are celebrated, shared and enjoyed. Of course in our Local Studies collection we have hundreds of wonderful images both old and new. Many of these, plus others from collections in Derbyshire and Derby City Libraries …

#PhotoFriday Digest – July

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 July with a smile on our faces on International Joke Day. A day designed to encourage laughter seemed a good opportunity to share …

Napoleonic Prisoners of War in Chesterfield

The number of prisoners of war captured during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars with France was unlike those seen previously in British campaigns. By 1809, after over fifteen years of war, the numbers had risen to a staggering 40,000, which was just over three times the population of Derby at the time. In the early …

“Every day is chocolate day…”

As someone recently said to me "every day is chocolate day!" But if you need an excuse to indulge then there is no better day than 7th July - World Chocolate Day. So (pretending that I needed an excuse) I reached for my latest favourite recipe book in our Local Studies collection, the 1954 'Derbyshire …

#PhotoFriday Digest – June

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 . The main event for June was of course the celebrations for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. So our first #PhotoFriday of the month took us back …