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The Thomas Hardy Cataloguing Project is Underway!

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Hello, I’m Ruth and I began working as the Thomas Hardy Project Archivist in mid-March. I have moved down to Dorset from West Yorkshire, where I was working at Special Collections and Galleries in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. Over the next sixteen months I will be creating a detailed catalogue of… Read more The Thomas Hardy Cataloguing Project is Underway!

The Frink Archive Project – an Archivist’s personal reflections

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Since last October, we have had David Johnston-Smith as a Project Archivist cataloguing the Dame Elisabeth Frink collection held at Dorset History Centre. The latter part of this project has been made more challenging by circumstances, but in this blog, David wanted to give his thoughts on the project and the collection as a whole…… Read more The Frink Archive Project – an Archivist’s personal reflections