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Reach for the Stars!
Posted by: Blog Administrator on May 17, 2011
Tagged in: Wiltshire Local History Forum , Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre , watchdog , Volunteer , The National Archives , Stars , Star Chamber , Sir Anthony Hungerford , Reach , public , property , Principal Archivist , preservation , plaintiff , photographs , performing , morris dancers , May Day , market , local history , local community , John Warneford , John Boller , historic maps , Highworth Historical Society , government , families , exhibition , enquiries , England , Elizabethan , Elizabeth I , education work , documents , costume , Claire Skinner , church , celebrations , cataloguing , awarded , assessment , Archivist , Archives , archive service , Andrew Crookston
The Archaeology Service are roaming Wiltshire again this summer …
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Apr 26, 2011
Tagged in: Wiltshire , White Sheet Hill , Walk , village , Sunday 31 July , Summer , Somerset , Saturday 16 , Salisbury Plain , round barrows , roaming , public , promote , prehistoric , Neolithic , nationwide , Nancy Jane Danks , Monuments , Mere Castle , landscape , http://festival.britarch.ac.uk/ , Guided , Festival of British Archaeology , event , Dorset , Clare King , Causewayed Camp , Castle Street , Bronze Age , Assistant County Archaeologist , archaeology@wiltshire.gov.uk , Archaeology service , archaeology
From Walk in Safes to Nuclear Bunkers....
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Feb 15, 2011
Tagged in: Wiltshire Council , West Wiltshire District Council , Walk-in safe , urban design , unitary , underground , town houses , Tidworth , strong rooms , Station Road , stairs , Sewer , search room , Salisbury District Council , role , railway , public , Planning applications , pipes , Pewsey , Pelham Puppets , Parish of Chippenham , paper , owner , Old Sarum Flying Club , nuclear bunker , North Wiltshire District Council , Minute books , Marlborough , maps , Malmesbury , locating , Little Somerford , legal , Kennet District Council , History Centre , History , historical value , historic building , generations , Future , files , ditches , District Councils , Devizes , deeds , data protection , county , contract , conservation statements , collecting , Chippenham Borough Lands Charity , Chippenham , catalogue , campaigns , Bowling Alley , Ashton Keynes , Archives
ARCHIVAL HERITAGE GIVEN A BOOST
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Jan 7, 2011
Tagged in: £22 , worldwide , Wiltshire and Swindon Archives , value , unique , UK , U.S. President , treasure trove , Thomas Cromwell , the Wolfson Foundation , the Pilgrim Trust , the Monument Trust , the Mercers Company Charitable Foundation , the Goldsmiths Company , the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation , the Foyle Foundation , retirement , researching , Queen Elizabeth I , public , Principal Archivist , Prince Edward , panel , on-line , National Cataloguing Grants programme , National Archives , local history , letters , Kew , Kent , Jane Seymour , J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust , Horatio Nelson , Heritage , Heritage , Henry VIII , grant , George Washington , family history , expert , Edward VI , Earls of Radnor , dissolution of the monasteries , collections , claire.skinner@wiltshire.gov.uk , Claire Skinner , catalogue , Berkshire , ARCHIVAL , April 2011-March 2012 , 16th century
Conservation in Action: The Buckland Fossil Table
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Nov 27, 2010
Tagged in: Wiltshire Conservation Service , William Buckland , veneer , treatment , tinted , table , stress , specialist , repairs , reactivate , rabbit skin glue , public , protective coverings , Professor of Geology , plan formulated , pioneering , Oxford University , Natural History conservators , Michaelangelo , matrix , Lyme Regis Museum , humidity , grant , geologists , Fossil , exhibit , environment , display , dinosaurs , coprolites , Consultation , constructed , conservator , conservation , Cistine chapel , Buckland , Beth Werrett , Association of Independent Museums , animal glu , analysis , AIM , adhesive , 19th century
A day in the life of an archivist…
Posted by: Blog Administrator on Nov 3, 2009
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