By Mia Cox, Archivist In 2012, thanks to a grant awarded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, North Yorkshire Archives opened up the Cochranes of Selby Archive [ZZU] – cleaning, listing, and repackaging a significant amount of the collection. Alongside this we held outreach events for local groups and schools with the help from a great… Read More Cochranes of Selby
In a previous post, we explored the types of documents that form the working papers of the North Riding Quarter Sessions. This post focuses on an unusual set of documents that appeared in bundles for the Christmas and Midsummer Sessions of 1783. In January and July 1783, parish constables reported on the use of land for growing tobacco.… Read More Tobacco growing in the Vale of York in 1783
December is the perfect time to look at some of the historic recipes we hold for an ever popular Christmas treat – mince pies. In this blog, we’ll explore the origins of these pies and the kinds of ingredients used by bakers over time.… Read More Tradition and taste: exploring the origins of festive mince pies
This blog post explores further treasures from the Archives, illustrating medieval documents issued from the papal chancery. It follows on from our recent post on documents issued by the English royal chancery.… Read More North Yorkshire Archive Treasures: papal documents
For Halloween, in this blog we explore 17th-century records within the Scarborough Borough collection, which relate to the official trial of a woman accused of witchcraft.… Read More Witchcraft accusation and trial in 17th-century Scarborough
This blog post explores and illustrates documents issued from the royal Chancery held by North Yorkshire Archives. Documents issued from the Chancery, under the Great Seal of England, can generally be categorised into charters, letters patent, and letters close.… Read More North Yorkshire Archive Treasures: documents of the royal Chancery – charters, letters patent and letters close
As part of our celebration of 75 years of the archive service in North Yorkshire, we have been highlighting different aspects of the collections in our care. This blog explores the range of Medieval documents we hold, taking a closer look at three especially notable examples.… Read More North Yorkshire Archive Treasures: Medieval manuscripts
North Yorkshire Archives holds large collections of the estate and private records of some of the most significant and influential families in the United Kingdom. Many of these families are ancient and can trace their lineage to the medieval period. This post looks at a selection of pedigrees, large documents which record genealogy, as well as examples of the highly decorative grants of arms, which confer the right of a family to bear a particular coat of arms under the authority of the Sovereign. … Read More North Yorkshire Archive Treasures: pedigrees and grants of arms
This blog follows on from previous posts about the North Riding Quarter Sessions. It explores further stories of those who were penalised for committing offences. Some of these offences are no longer viewed as crimes today.… Read More North Riding Quarter Sessions’ scandals
This blog brings together the results of several years’ research into the North Riding Quarter Sessions records at North Yorkshire Archives. It traces the lives of some of the younger faces that appear in the late-19th-century Police charge book of early mugshots [QP]. Sophia Constable, the youngest female recorded as an inmate at the old Northallerton Prison, is one of these faces.… Read More Juvenile offenders in the North Riding Quarter Sessions
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