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Monthly Archives: August 2017
Good Luck Helen
It is time to say good bye and good luck to our volunteer, Helen, today. We thank you very much for all your hard work and especially your enthusiasm for cataloguing our vast National Art Slide Library! After a year … Continue reading
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Tales in Archive Stock Taking Part 2
How NOT to store your collections! Following on from Tales in Archive Stock Taking Part 1, I thought I would counterpoint the beauty of the organised strong room with some horror stories of bad storage that would make any archivist … Continue reading
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Tales in Archive Stock taking: Part 1
Consolidation and Appraisal We’ve been a little quiet on the blog of late and this is due to the fact that over the last two weeks we’ve been conducting our first ever stock take! While we counted and listed all … Continue reading
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375th Anniversary of the English Civil War
375 years ago today King Charles I arrived in Nottingham with his army and raised the royal standard (flag) above the castle officially declaring war on parliament. Charles was riding on his successful capture of Nottingham’s arms having failed to … Continue reading
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