Sir Francis Burdett of Foremark Hall: MP and Reformist

I came across Sir Francis Burdett’s Derbyshire connections purely by chance, whilst looking through the Derbyshire Archaeological Society’s print collection for nice images to use on Google Arts, where we put up images and small exhibitions using items from our collections. In that I came across Foremark Hall, just a mile and a half away …

Authenticity Hoo-Ha pt. 3: Is this Mr Glover’s sketch book?

Authenticity is what archives are all about.  Here is the last in my series of three blog posts on this subject. Some months ago, I had a message from a researcher who had recently been looking at copies of an original document we hold, described in our catalogue as the sketch book of the antiquarian …

D2375 Harpur Crewe archive list now online

As you may know, we are beavering away at the job of getting all of the lists that describe our archive holdings into our online catalogue, so that people can find out about our collections from home. We still haven't finished - but we have dealt with the most notable omission from the database, viz. …

Sir John Gresley and his seal

[2018: images from the "Thank You For Your Letter" project have been deleted to make space for new posts.  The images have been retained within Derbyshire County Council's internal records system so that we may re-use them in the future.] D77/1/23/163 Notification by Sir John Gresley, knight, that as he has not had the power …