Tag: Letters Archives and archivistsLife and work in Jamaica in 1938: ‘Like seeds falling on a stony ground’Monday 12 June 2023Little is known about the writer, but their letter provides a powerful perspective on...Records and researchDancing With Love: A dance project inspired by letters of love, loss and longingMonday 27 July 2020It is striking how most of the themes and emotions, from heartache to love...Records and researchLove dividedThursday 7 May 2020Today, as we write this blog, people across the world have been separated, in...Records and researchPetitioning for love: ‘The grief we have suffered no tongue can tell’Wednesday 6 May 2020In 1829, John Travwicks, described as ‘a quiet inoffensive man’, was sentenced to transportation...Behind the scenesReading With Love: Part oneThursday 12 March 2020If there is one thing we all enjoy, it’s a decent love story. One...Records and researchOpen and closed: Royal correspondence and the Archbishops of York in the 14th centuryThursday 10 October 2019The Close and Patent Rolls are two different types of administrative record of the...Behind the scenesHistorical letters and messages from the battlefieldTuesday 13 November 2018From love letters of kings and queens to political calls for liberation… from declarations...Behind the scenesWords of love: Valentine’s Day giftsTuesday 31 January 2017As the romantics among you will have noticed it will soon be Valentine’s Day…......Records and researchElizabeth I’s monarchy: rule of a ‘weak and feeble’ woman?Tuesday 1 November 2016A new online collection offers unprecedented and extensive access to Elizabeth I in her...Records and researchWar letters from Great Western Railway workersWednesday 16 December 2015As temperatures drop and preparations for Christmas mount, we cast our thoughts 100 winters...Records and researchInvestigating the letters behind carving and shaping stoneWednesday 4 December 2013Barbara Hepworth and the Venice Biennale (1950) The photograph presented here is a visual...Records and researchShoulder of wren with salad: diets and debt in Elizabethan EnglandThursday 7 February 2013Have you ever written an email in anger or in jest, and then decided...