Hello again everyone! It’s been almost a year since I left the Mills Archive, and I feel very happy and nostalgic to be blogging for them again. I am writing from my home in Mombasa, Kenya, where I will be keeping an eye out for any interesting milling stories that I can share with you…
Author: Sarra Sheikh
My last week as an intern… and exciting developments to look forward to!
Hello everybody! This week has been rather bittersweet for me, because it is (unfortunately) my last week as an intern at the Mills Archive. However, it has been just as exciting and fascinating as all the ones that have preceded it! One exciting development I am eager to reveal to you all is that our…
Mills go mystical
As the end of my internship nears, I feel as though I have spent a lot more than three months at the Archive, but also that my time here is passing far too quickly for my liking. I apologise for my absence from the blog for the past few weeks, but I was beginning to…
The Muggeridge Collection comes to The Mills Archive
We have just received the newest addition to our growing archive from all the way across the pond! The Muggeridge Collection arrived from the US and is now being stored at The Mills Archive. The arrival of this collection was especially appropriate because I had just found a press cutting about Donald Muggeridge, and felt…
Lots of new information comes to light this week…
Hi everybody! I had a very eventful week last week. In fact, so much so that I couldn’t even collect everything together for the blog! Nevertheless, after allowing myself to ruminate over the weekend, here are the highlights. The most exciting thing that I did last week was present at the trustees’ meeting. It was…
Another personal milestone at the Archive
Hello everybody! I have some very exciting news this week… I have officially uploaded my thousandth cutting on to AtoM! It was a big moment for me, as it marks a point in my time at the Archive where the catalogue has taken on the form of a much bigger entity than when I was…
A busy week at the Archive
Hi everyone! I am now officially past the half-way point of the internship, but I still feel like there is so much more I need to learn and so little time to do it in. This week in particular has been very informative, as I have been involved in a few different things apart from…
Almost halfway there…
Hello everybody, I’m just in the middle of my sixth week at The Mills Archive now! I have already reached the halfway point in my internship and it feels like the time has just slipped away. I am still learning so much every day, and the more comfortable I get with my roles here, the…
This week’s mill history reveals a touch of glamour
Hello everyone! I have just finished my third week at The Mills Archive, and it is amazing how much more I keep learning. This week carried a big personal achievement, as I managed to reach my goal of uploading 200 cuttings on to the catalogue by the middle of the week! Needless to say, this…
My 2nd week: discovering some fascinating stories
Hello again everyone! After a week of learning the ropes around The Mills Archive, I am really starting to appreciate the real importance and genuine enthusiasm people have for mills. Just this week, we have had two people drop in to the offices to see the kind of work we do, and are eager to…