#PhotoFriday – February Digest

February seems to have flown by, so 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 . February's theme for both History Begins at Home and Explore Your Archive was 'Love', so our first tweet …

#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. …

#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 …

December News from Local Studies

Compiled by Lynda Tomkins, Archives Assistant As the year draws to a close, this month we look back on some of the things the Local Studies team have been up to during 2022, and some of the work we undertook whilst we were closed. Each team member has written their own update. Barbara, Archives Assistant …

#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 …

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 …

Derbyshire: a hotspot for the paranormal?

Today’s post comes from a school pupil, who recently spent a week at Derbyshire Record Office. Here’s their story … My name is Sophia and recently I have been on work experience at Derbyshire Record Office. During my stay, amongst the many interesting things I did, such as listing building plans and helping with the …