It is time for our Spring Mill Memories newsletter and this issue has got lots to keep all our Friends informed and up to date with what we are up to here at the Archive.
Read about our new workshop which teaches people how to properly care for their collections. The staff here are passionate about taking steps to preserve and protect the world’s milling records and the more people who join in the better! This is why this workshop is a great opportunity to help people working at Heritage Partner and Corporate Friend mills with their own images and documents e.g. how to organise and even digitise what the mill has so that the public can also access them and get involved.
This photo is taken from the newsletter and shows some participants at last year’s workshop.
The newsletter also contains a simple step-by-step guide on how to navigate around the new website and catalogue! The website contains information about our latest news, our upcoming events, features and articles, our Mills Index and links to our brand new online catalogue called AtoM. The article gives you basic step-by-step instructions alongside pictures to make the process of finding your way around the website really easy.
There is also information on the Mills Archive Research Competition 2016 where you can enter your own research on a topic of wind-, water- or muscle power and win a prize!
This issue will introduce you to Andrew, a volunteer whose interest in medieval and early modern history makes him a perfect fit to help at the Mills Archive and the National Archives. The article, written by Andrew himself, will give you an insight into the range of tasks people carry out here. Everyone is concentrating on a different job and with this combined effort, the Archive is a very productive and rewarding place to work.
Obviously this is only a snippet of what is in Mill Memories but there is also information on new Heritage Partners, collections and most importantly, an invitation to the Friends’ Garden Party on Saturday 13th June. The garden party is a chance to meet with old friends and make new ones that are all interested in and support the Mills Archive. The staff will open up some of the rooms and set up little exhibitions including a few working steam engine models and hopefully if the weather is nice guests will be able to wander around the beautiful garden.
So I hope you enjoy the newsletter, it really is an interesting read and I hope many of our Friends can make it to our garden party!