The future history of the school admission register

I’m recycling this image of Steve Bloomer’s school admission record (blog posts passim.), and throwing in a question: have you used our admission registers on Find My Past in your research? And do you think historians a century from now will have the same level of interest in us? Old-style admission registers like this are very …

A busy week with some interesting finds

As you may know we are constantly adding "new" material to our collections (some of it new, i.e. recent, especially in local studies, and some of it much older). It is rare to go more than 3 or 4 days without accessioning new material, this was a little exceptional though with 7 new and additional …

Advent Calendar – Day 17

A week to go until Christmas Eve. We will be closing at 1pm on Christmas Eve and reopening at 9.30 on Tuesday 29th December. It will be a three day week though, as we will also be closed on the Friday for New Year's Day, reopening as normal on Saturday 2nd January at 9.30. Until …

New Digitisation Project – School Records

We are very pleased to be able to soon be having our school admission registers and log books digitised as part in a national project which will ultimately make the digital versions available via the Find My Past website. The project, organised by the Archives and Records Association on behalf of archive and record offices across the …

Latest records now available for consultation

The following additions having recently been made to collections already available at the Record Office (click on the links for more information;- Additional minutes, accounts and project work for the Eyam Map Project (D6844) http://bit.ly/tu7zGi St James CE School, in Derby - Class and event photographs, 2 scrapbooks of newscuttings and other ephemera from the …