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  • Archival box making

    Archives, Blog, Conservation

    29

    04, 2025

    Archival box making

    By WSHC adminCategories: Archives, Blog, Conservation

    From maps and manorial records to architectural drawings and deposition books, our archives are home to a wide variety [...]

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  • Map with areas coloured differently, each annotated with a number.

    Chedlanger House, Warminster

    Architecture, Archives, Blog, Wiltshire People

    1

    04, 2025

    Chedlanger House, Warminster

    By WSHC adminCategories: Architecture, Archives, Blog, Wiltshire People

    Here at the History Centre, we take in new deposits all the time. Actively collecting for the future is [...]

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  • Left: A small stone building with small door and small central window, and small triangular prism addition at top of the roof, with various clipped hedges in the foreground. Right: Tithe barn building with large and low roof, single large entrance opening with wooden lintel.

    Disappearing farmsteads

    Architecture, Blog

    17

    03, 2025

    Disappearing farmsteads

    By WSHC adminCategories: Architecture, Blog

    Having brought up a family, volunteered on all sorts of child-related committees, worked and now retired, I found that [...]

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  • Black and white photograph showing open booklet titled "Wiltshire County Council: The First 100 years" being held by two men in suits.

    Memories of Ken Rogers

    Blog, History Centre, Wiltshire People

    4

    03, 2025

    Memories of Ken Rogers

    By WSHC adminCategories: Blog, History Centre, Wiltshire People

    Former colleagues have been kind enough to contribute the below messages in memory of Ken Roger's life and career. [...]

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    Digital Champions Co-Creation Working Group

    Blog, History Centre

    14

    02, 2025

    Digital Champions Co-Creation Working Group

    By WSHC adminCategories: Blog, History Centre

    Help the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre shape and improve access to our services Here at the Wiltshire & [...]

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  • A thumbs-up selfie showing light-haired woman grinning at the camera with desktop computer showing webpage about parish council collections at WSHC behind.

    Council counsel

    Archives, Blog

    4

    02, 2025

    Council counsel

    By WSHC adminCategories: Archives, Blog

    I think archivists by their nature get a little bit obsessed with what may seem small, irrelevant or geeky [...]

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  • Sounds of the Southwest: A free technical & creative project

    Blog, History Centre

    22

    01, 2025

    Sounds of the Southwest: A free technical & creative project

    By WSHC adminCategories: Blog, History Centre

    Rediscover the past through audio… The Sounds of the South West (SoSW) project is a partnership between archives in [...]

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  • CMAS: A year in review

    Blog, Conservation, History Centre

    22

    01, 2025

    CMAS: A year in review

    By WSHC adminCategories: Blog, Conservation, History Centre

    As we all attempt to follow new year resolutions and make plans for the year ahead, we decided to [...]

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  • Book review: In Memoriam by Alice Winn

    Blog, Book Reviews

    22

    01, 2025

    Book review: In Memoriam by Alice Winn

    By WSHC adminCategories: Blog, Book Reviews

    In Memoriam by Alice Winn Penguin Books, 2023 385 pages Softback XWI.823 A heart wrenching and emotional read, with [...]

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  • Two images of near complete reconstructed leather shoes.

    Waterlogged Archaeological Leather

    Archaeology, Blog, Conservation

    18

    12, 2024

    Waterlogged Archaeological Leather

    By WSHC adminCategories: Archaeology, Blog, Conservation

    The Conservation and Museum Advisory Service (CMAS) has recently had some more archaeological finds in the lab. We work [...]

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