{"id":4003,"date":"2023-11-17T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T09:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2023-11-16T14:15:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T14:15:35","slug":"a-warm-welcome-to-tara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/2023\/11\/17\/a-warm-welcome-to-tara\/","title":{"rendered":"A Warm Welcome to Tara"},"content":{"rendered":"

In October, we were joined by a new member of the team, Tara, who is our new Collections Assistant for Reprographics. We’ve asked her to introduce herself to our readers…<\/p>\n

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Hello, I\u2019m Tara, the new Collections Assistant (Reprographics), replacing the much-loved Jo who recently retired<\/a>. It sounds like I have big shoes to fill!<\/p>\n

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I am very excited to be part of this fantastic and friendly team and have had a lovely warm welcome. I have spent the past 25 years as a photography teacher & lecturer, teaching AS and A level photography and FdA photography, and feel lucky to have spent time with some truly wonderful people. Prior to teaching I worked for some years as a senior medical photographer, a job requiring a strong stomach! I shall leave it there!<\/p>\n

My new role so far has been fascinating, handling and photographing some incredible documents, including a copy of a diary entry from Magdalene College, Cambridge belonging to Samuel Pepys, originally written in cipher, and transcribed in a typewriter written form. The diary entry recounted Charles II stay at Trent in1651 \u2013 Pepys would have been 18 years old. I am particularly intrigued by the language style at the time, as well as the use of cipher.<\/p>\n

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Most recently, by coincidence, I have also digitised a beautiful large wax seal and manuscript of Charles II \u2013 such an incredible object to have the privilege of handling and photographing.<\/p>\n

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I have photographed some beautiful hand drawn maps, and a few last-minute additions for the upcoming Frink exhibition at Dorset Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Today I have been shown an ongoing project digitising a large collection of glass plate negatives of the village of Broadmayne; this is something that excites me greatly, as I have an affinity for historical photographic processes. Look out for a future blog about these!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In October, we were joined by a new member of the team, Tara, who is our new Collections Assistant for Reprographics. We’ve asked her to introduce herself to our readers… — Hello, I\u2019m Tara, the new Collections Assistant (Reprographics), replacing the much-loved Jo who recently retired. It sounds like I have big shoes to fill!… Read more A Warm Welcome to Tara<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[82,578,109,249,579],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4011,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions\/4011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}