Intwine is a subject guide to all of the Archives Hub’s ‘Collections of the Month’ features, inspired by the Intute guide to web resources for education and research.
Each of Intwine‘s subject headings also provides a link to search the Hub’s Subject Finder, which will lead you to lots of extra material on the subject.
Above: Photo of Woodcraft Folk, 1920s, copyright © National Co-operative Archive.
The Archives Hub is holding a training day for contributors and potential contributors on Tuesday 25 September here at the University of Manchester.
The day is free and will run from 10.30 to 16.00 with a free lunch provided.
This is a great opportunity for anyone who would like to know more about EAD and about creating descriptions and indexing entries for the Hub. If you would like to attend please email us.
Illustration: Woodcraft Folk photo copyright © National Co-operative Archive.
The final installment of June’s Pick ‘n’ Mix feature has a botanical theme. Our Digital Artist in Residence, Aileen Collis, has created a design based on an image of an illustration of wild rose haups in Illustrations of Scottish Flora (1912-1913) by David R. Robinson, part of the Kinnear Collection, held at University of Dundee Archive Services.
And, above, here’s a detail of another of another illustration "Types of Bramble. Rubus Fructicocus (Rosaceæ). From Woods Strathmigle to Falkland road, July 29th, 1913".
Photograph copyright © University of Dundee Archive Services.
The latest installment of June’s Pick ‘n’ Mix feature has a seaside theme. Our Digital Artist in Residence, Aileen Collis, has created a design based on a seaside image. Aileen previously created digitally-printed fabric from a photo of Southport rock, and this fabric was used in constructing a Punch ‘n’ Judy booth – pictured here on Southport beach in Summer 2005. The Punch ‘n’ Judy booth also made an appearance at the Archives Hub’s To Boldly Go! event that July.
Photograph by Shaw + Shaw, courtesy of Aileen Collis. Design copyright © Aileen Collis.
For the latest installment of this month’s Pick ‘n’ Mix feature, our Digital Artist in Residence Aileen Collis has created a design based on a digital image of a pattern book in the collection of E Y Johnston, Textile Manufacturer, Galashiels, held at Heriot-Watt University.
So here’s a photo of some colourful fabric from another Heriott-Watt collection, that of Alan Paterson (died 1986), who collected and researched Highland dress and tartan. The photo shows a woman’s silk stole in Jacobite tartan.
See also: History of textiles: Scottish textile heritage.
Photo courtesy of Heriot-Watt University Archive, Records Management and Museum Service. To receive copies or permission to reproduce please write to Ann Jones, University Archivist
For the first installment of this month’s Pick ‘n ‘Mix feature, our Digital Artist in Residence Aileen Collis has created a design based on a digital image of an eighteenth century manuscript recipe book, probably compiled by a Mary Bennet. Here’s a detail of the page showing recipes for "a whipp’d syllabub extraordinary" and pancakes. The John Rylands University Library has another book which includes "an excellent cake my mother’s way which never fails", but unfortunately the paper was too fragile to scan.
Image courtesy of The John Rylands University Library.
See also: Stuff the diet!
Following on from Victoria Wood’s success at the Bafta awards for writing and starring in the drama Housewife, 49, the BBC have published an article on Mass Observation, including mention of the archive at the University of Sussex.
… get a hat.
Not to be confused with calendar. Archivists use this word for an inventory of items in a collection listed chronologically. The items themselves haven’t been re-arranged this way – a calendar is a description, or an interpretation, presenting another way of looking at the collection. But when calendars in either sense appear on the Archives Hub, they themselves tend to be items within an archival collection. Collections on the Hub are described with a hierarchical organisation, another interpretation but one providing more contextual information, and more likely to reflect the organisation of the materials.
Illustration: terrier inspired by the Underdog Show.
Bit of a misnomer this one: common-place books are not printed books, they’re manuscript, and they are not commonplace – each one is unique.That’s why so many appear in archival collections described on the Archives Hub.
From the 16th century and on into the 19th, many people preserved snippets of conversation and interesting excerpts from books, by writing them down in a notebook, collected in a ‘common place’ for future reference.
Perhaps this blog sometimes resembles a digital common-place book, especially in the way the ‘labels’ organise our posts by theme, much as commonplace books were often organised.
Illustration: excerpt from "Weep On, Weep On" by Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852).
See also: Collections of the Month: Love letters.