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Keeper of the Scrolls
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14/06/2004
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NEW ADDITION TO THE SOCIETY ARCHIVES
Peter Charlton came across a letter book during a house clearance and through member Morris Horsfield it has been donated to the society. The book contains copies of letters sent by the Earby Amateur Operatic Society and date from the 1920’s.
The first letter is addressed to Mr Doyle Carte at the Savoy Hotel, London, asking permission to stage one of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas.
This very interesting artefact is a valuable addition to the Society’s archives.
AND MORE ............
Thanks to David Hustler of the Pendle and Burnley branch of the Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society we now have a compact disc containing the following additions to the Society’s records :-
Colne Times Newspaper - an index to obituaries 1874 - 1899
1891 census surname index to Pendle Area and “Burnley Rural District”
1891 census surname index to West Craven Area (contains - Barnoldswick, Bracewell Brogden, Coates, Earby, Kelbrook, Martons, Salterforth and Thornton-in-Craven).
Local Churches, Chapels and Burial Grounds past and present - This an extremely useful compilation giving location, brief history and listing the records of each establishment. It covers Padiham, Burnley, Nelson Colne and West Craven.
Colne Cemetery Records - 1860 -1976
Colne Wesleyan Chapel of St John - Burial Accounts 1825 -1958
A HISTORY CONSULTATION EXERCISE
FUTURE MA HISTORY COURSES
On 11 Nov 2003 the Society was represented by Derek Clabburn at a consultation event at the Edge Hill College, Ormskirk. The college has accreditation links with the University of Lancaster.
The History Department there is considering a number of developments in its course portfolio and the consultation event was arranged to take soundings from representatives of Lancashire's local history groups, English Heritage, County archivists, family history groups and others on the best approach that might be adopted to reinvigorate the current MA history (further degree course).
From the floor came requests for subject areas such as family history, local history and for archival support units and teachers/lecturers in secondary schools and colleges of further education. These might be in co-operation within the existing MA structure of distant learning packages and might evolve into free-standing modules forming part of the accreditation leading to an MA degree by research.
Taking into account the cost of higher degree courses together with an awareness that most local history society members are unlikely to wish to pursue a further degree anyway it was still felt that many local historians were still anxious and often eager to enhance their own history skills. To fill this “gap in the market” the local history group suggested that dedicated short-term courses were likely to appeal and within these there might well be a mechanism that would allow those who might wish to, to use these as modules of an MA study course.
The areas identified for such an approach might be:
research methodologies
organising/getting started
identification of resources, topics or field of study
uses and abuses of archival resources
understanding and interpreting archival material
getting to grips with language and palaeography of old records/documents
landscape history in Lancashire
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News Items From Edition 31 Winter 2003
